Table of Contents

• Statement from the Editors Jews in Lodz, 1820-1939 The Development of the City of Lodz, 1820-1939 WIESLAW PUS The National Structure of the Population in Lodz in the Years 1820-1939 JULIAN K. JANCZAK The Role of the Jewish Community in the Organization of Urban Space in Lodz STANISLAW LISZEWSKI The National Composition of Lodz Industrialists before 1914 STEFAN PYTLAS Great Capitalist Fortunes in the Polish lands before 1939: The Case of the Poznanski Family KAZIMIERZ BADZIAK The Jewish Community in the Political Life of Lodz in the Years 1865-1914 PAWEL SAMUS The Emergence of the Yiddish Press in Lodz, 1904-1918 LESZEK OLEJNIK Sources for the History of the Jewish Community in Lodz in the Years 1918-1939 JACEK WALICKI Aspects of Jewish Self-Government in Lodz, 1914-1939 ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO The Jewish Electorate of Interwar Lodz in the Light of the Local Government Elections, 1919-1938 BARBARA WACHOWSKA Jews in Lodz in 1913 According to Statistics JERZY TOMASZEWSKI Between Co-existence and Hostility: A Contribution to the Problem of National Antagonisms in Lodz in the Interwar Period JANUSZ WROBEL References to Polish-Jewish Co-existence in the Memoirs of Lodz Workers: A Linguistic Analysis MARIA KAMINSKA The Yung Yiddish (Young Yiddish) Group and Jewish Modern Art in Poland, 1918-1923 JERZY MALINOWSKI Yisroel Rabon and his Novel Di Gas (The Street) CHONE SHMERUK Tuwim as he was TAMARA KARREN Document Lodz Memories YEHIEL YESHAIA TRUNK Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS Shmuel Almog's Zionism and History YOSEF SALMON Requiem for the Jewish People: Polish Literary Judaica in the Years 1987-1989 NATAN GROSS BOOK REVIEWS Contributors

About the Author

Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years.