BETWEEN REMEMBRANCE AND DENIAL: THE FATE OF THE JEWS IN THE WARS OF THE POLISH COMMONWEALTH DURING THE MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AS SHOWN IN CONTEMPORARY WRITINGS AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH

Boulder; East European Monographs, 1995. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. VIII, 519 pages. 23 cm. First English edition. Original Hebrew title: Ben zikaron le-hakhhasha. "The research for this book was done as a part of the research programme of the Diaspora Research Institute, Tel-Aviv University. It was published in Hebrew as volume 98 of this institute's publications. " Contents: Image as Reality - I. The Generation Which Had Seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. A. The Message of the Survivors - Descriptions and Prayers. B. The Polish Image of the Events. C. First Foreign Echoes - II. The Memory of Yesterday. A. 'Contemporary History'. B. Omission of Suffering in Western Literature. C. The Emergence of the Ukrainian Image of the Past - III. Folk Memory and the Romantic World Vision. A. Ukrainian Folk Songs on the Hour of Terror and Turning-Point. B. From Cossack Chronicle to National History: The Beginnings of Ukrainian Historiography. C. Human Fate in the Polish Romantic Historiography - IV. The Scientific Perception: Historiography of the Rational World. A. The Past as Perceived by an Enlightened Jew. B. Challenging Traditional Images: Polish Historical Memory After the Period of National Uprisings. C. The Observer: Russian Historiography - V. In the Tempests of State Nationalism. Subjects: Gezerot tah ve-tat, 1648-1649. Jews - Poland - Historiography. Jews - Poland - History - 17th century. Jews - Poland - History - Sources. Joden. Poolse delingen. Oorlogen. Antisemitismus. Near fine condition. (EE-4-46C).