Product Description: This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish life led to a need for new forms of community and belonging, and that the ensuing search for collective and individual order gave birth to the new institutions, organizations, and practices that would define modern Jewish society and politics for the remainder of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Relations between Jews and their neighbors in eastern Europe have long been perceived - both in the popular mind and in conventional scholarship - as being in a permanent state of conflict. This book counters that image by exploring long neglected aspects of inter-group interaction and exchange...read more