Creativity and Conflict. Jews in Interwar Poland.
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Creativity and Conflict reexamines interwar Polish Jewish history through the author's collected essays and scholarly responses of leading academicians. The work covers Polish-Jewish relations, Orthodox Judaism and the rabbinate, women's history, social history, and historiography, challenging prevalent myths about Jews in Poland.
Professor Gershon C. Bacon held the Marcell and Maria Roth Chair in the History and Culture of Polish Jewry at Bar-Ilan University's Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry in Ramat Gan, Israel. He has authored numerous books and articles on Polish Jewish history and currently serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry, while continuing his research and writing.
