Symbiosis and ambivalence

• Tables, Figures and Maps
• p. ix

• Preface
• p. xi

• Acknowledgments
• p. xii

• Introduction
• p. 1

• Chapter 1
• The Jew Legend
• p. 1

• Introduction

• The Tale of the Polish Jews

• The Jew Legend

• On 'traditional Polish anti-Semitism'

• Anti-Semitism in Poland: a structural or cultural problem?

• Structure versus culture

• Jews in Poland: their economic role

• Jews in Poland: the cultural implication

• An Ethnographic Case-Study Approach

• The case of Jasliska

• The ethnographic present

• Chapter 2
• The Setting
• p. 21

• Introduction

• Feudal relations: the gentry, the Jews, and the peasant serfs

• Early Jewish settlement in Poland

• The Jewish arrendator

• Jasliska: portrait of a Polish episcopal town

• The foundation

• A multi-ethnic environment

• Jewish exclusion from Jasliska

• Modern times, or the decline of a small town

• Austrian colonisation of southeastern Poland

• Austrian enlightened policies and the Jews

• Chapter 3
• Spheres of Interaction: Spatial Integration
• p. 41

• Introduction

• Patterns of settlement

• Sources on Jewish settlement

• A Jewish centre

• The Jews, the town, and trade

• Jewish merchants and Polish peasants

• Acquisition of land: the gossip about Jewish arson

• The rumour of Jewish arson

• On oral traditions and historical gossip

• Historical evidence

• Chapter 4
• Spheres of Interaction: Economic Relations
• p. 59

• Introduction

• New times, old patterns

• Jewish entrepreneurship

• Jewish prosperity

• Economic dependence

• The Jewish swindler: the malevolent creditor

• The Jewish rescuer: the benevolent creditor

• The Jewish patron: the mighty employer

• Economic competition

• The Bank of Mercy: Christian money-lending

• The Agricultural Circle: Christian joint ventures

• Hostile dependency

• Chapter 5
• Spheres of Interaction: The Social Boundary and the Image of the Jew
• p. 89

• Introduction

• Strangers at home: the mystical world of Poland's Jews in exile

• The rise of Hasidic reign in Galicia

• The Hasidic community in Jasliska

• Viewing the other: Jewish and Gentile reasoning

• When two worlds meet: cross-cultural contact and its limitations

• Evidence of social contact

• Hierarchies of social contact

• Polish images of the Jew

• Polish-Jewish relations and the image of the Jew

• Chapter 6
• The Ethnic Boundary: The Case of the Converted Jewish Woman
• p. 114

• Introduction

• Felicja's story

• Early childhood

• The baptism

• After the baptism

• The Second World War

• The Jewish family

• Transgressing the ethnic boundary

• A social deviant

• The conversion

• An ethnic conflict

• Poles and Jews in present-day Jasliska

• Chapter 7
• The Destruction of the Communities
• p. 138

• Introduction

• Hitler's era: German rule in southeastern Poland

• The General Government

• Jasliska under German occupation

• Polish resistance to German rule

• The destruction of a Jewish community

• Prelude

• The forecast

• The raid

• The deportation

• The selection

• The massacre

• Escape and rescue

• The dead and the guilty

• The destruction of a Polish community

• The aftermath of the German occupation

• The civil war: anarchy and policy

• Polish Texas

• Peoples' Poland or the reign of communism

• The post-communist era

• Chapter 8
• Discussion: Physical Experience and Symbolic Representations
• p. 169

• Introduction

• The physical experience: Jewish patrons and Polish clients

• Jewish patrons and Polish clients: towards an alternative perspective

• Patron-client relations in Jasliska

• On Polish-Jewish coexistence

• Symbolic representations: Polish-Jewish relations and the image of the Jew

• The relationship between 'imagined' and 'real life' experience

• The transition from physical to symbolic experience

• The impact of the Shoah: on outsiders, victims and bystanders

• Chapter 9
• Conclusion: The Jew Legend Revisited
• p. 190

• Appendix
• Cadastral Registers
• p. 195

• Glossary
• p. 200

• Bibliography
• p. 202

• Index
• p. 211