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Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov

 

                 (University of California), 1996  Winner National Jewish Book Award

 

                  Available on the Internet at:

 

                 www.netlibrary.com

 

                   and, in part, at:

 

                  www.storypower.com/hasidic/articles/background/rosman1.html

 

                  Hebrew Edition (Mercaz Shazar, Jerusalem), 1999:

 

                  äáòù"è:  îçãù äçñéãåú.

 

                  Winner Shazar Prize for Best Book in Jewish History, 2000

 

 

 

The Lords' Jews:  Jews and Magnates in the Polish-Lithuanian

 

                 Commonwealth (Harvard Ukrainian Institute and

 

                 Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, Cambridge), 1990.

 

                 Anthologized in Studies in Modern Jewish History I [Hebrew], R. I. Cohen,  

 

                 ed. (Mercaz Shazar, Jerusalem), 1995.

 

                 Polish edition is in preparation.

 

 

 

The Jewish Community in Poland

 

                 (Units 1-4 of  "Polin -- The Jews of Eastern Europe: History and

 

                 Culture"), [Hebrew] (Open University of

 

                 Israel, Tel Aviv), 1990-1994.

 

                 Russian Version (OUI-Joint Distribution Committee, Tel Aviv), 1994.

 

 

 

Bar-Ilan Studies in the History and Culture of East

 

                 European Jewry (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat

 

                 Gan), 1989 (edited with Gershon Bacon).

 

 

 

Yeven Metzula: Introduction, Annotated Text, Explanatory Essays ,

 

                                   .                 [Hebrew] (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), in  press (edite)                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 M. Nadav, A. Shohat, History of the Jewish Community of Pinsk, 1506-1939,

 

                  English Edition, ed. and intro.: M. Rosman; trans.: M. Rosman,

 

                  F. Tropper; gen. ed:. M. Mirsky; 2 vols., Stanford University, (in press). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles

 

       Introduction to: Accounts of the 1648-49 Persecutions

 

                     [Hebrew] (Mercaz Dinur, Jerusalem), 1982.

 

 

 

       "Izrael Rubinowicz:  Zyd w sluzbie polskich magnatow w

 

                     XVIII w." [Polish] Sobotka 22, 1982;

 

                     Hebrew version in Nation and History, Vol.

 

                     2 (Mercaz Shazar, Jerusalem), 1984.

 

 

 

       "The Relationship Between the Jewish Arrendator and the

 

                     Polish Nobleman:  The Other Side", in Jews

 

                     in Economic Life [Hebrew] (Mercaz Shazar,

 

                     Jerusalem), 1985.

 

 

 

       "Polish Jews in the Gdansk Trade in the Late Seventeenth

 

                     and Early Eighteenth Centuries", in Danzig

 

                     Between East and West (Harvard Center for

 

                     Jewish Studies, Cambridge), 1985.

 

 

 

       "Jews in the River Trade From South-East Poland to

 

                     Gdansk" [Hebrew] Gal-Ed 7-8 (1985).

 

 

 

       "Jewish Perceptions of Persecution and Powerlessness in

 

                     Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century Poland", POLIN

 

                     1 (1986).

 

 

 

       "The Image of Poland as a Center of Torah Learning after

 

                     the 1648 Persecutions" [Hebrew], Zion 51

 

                                                                                                                          (1986).

 

 

 

       "An Exploitative Regime and the Opposition to it in

 

                     Miedzyboz, Ca. 1730," Transition and Change

 

                     in Modern Jewish History: Essays Presented

 

                     in Honor of Shmuel Ettinger (Mercaz Shazar

 

                     Jerusalem), 1987.

 

 

 

       "Miedzyboz and Rabbi Israel Ba'al Shem Tov" [Hebrew],  

 

                     Zion 52 (1987); English version in

 

                     Essential Papers in Hasidism, G. D.

 

                     Hundert, ed. (New York University,    

 

                                                                                                           New York), 1990.

 

 

 

       "Reflections on the State of Polish-Jewish Historical

 

                     Study," Jewish History 3 (1988)                                                                                                                   

 

 

 

       "The Authority of the Council of Four Lands Outside of

 

                     Poland" [Hebrew], Bar Ilan Studies in the

 

                     History and Culture of East European Jewry

 

                     (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan), 1989.

 

 

 

       "A Minority Views the Majority: Jewish Attitudes Towards

 

                     the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and

 

;                     Interaction With Poles," POLIN 4 (1989)

 

                     reprinted in A. Polonsky, ed., From Shtetl

 

                     to Socialism (Littman Library, London), 1993.

 

                                                                                                    

 

                                                                                                    

 

       "A 'Chosen' Community in Peril: Polish Jewry in the Wake

 

                     of the 1648 Persecutions" [Hebrew] (with

 

                     Gershon Bacon), The Idea of Chosenness

 

                                                                              (Mercaz Shazar, Jerusalem), 1991.

 

 

 

       "Culture in the Book:  A Review Essay" [Hebrew], Zion 56

 

                     (1991).

 

 

 

       "'Przywodcy', 'Elita', i 'Lud' w Miedzybozu,"  Zydzi w

 

                     dawnej Rzeczpospolitej, A. Link-Lenczowski,

 

                     ed. (Ossolineum, Wroclaw), 1991.

 

 

 

       "Role et fonction des Juifs dans le systeme economique

 

                     judeo-polonais avant la modernite," in La

 

                     societe juive a travers l'histoire Vol. 3

 

                                                             (Librairie Artheme ayard, Paris), 1993.     

 

 

 

       "The History of a Historical Source:  On The Editing of

 

                     Shivhei Ha-Besht [In Praise of the Ba'al

 

                     Shem Tov]" [Hebrew], Zion 58 (1993).

 

 

 

       "Social Conflicts in Miedzyboz in the Generation of the

 

                     Ba'al Shem Tov," in Hasidism: A Reappraisal

 

                     (Littman Library, London), 1996.

 

 

 

       “In Praise of the Ba’al Shem Tov: A User’s Guide to the Editions of

 

                    Shivhei Ha- Besht,  POLIN 10 (1997).

 

 

 

 

        The Jews of Poland Until 1648:  Political, Economic and Social Trends”

 

                     [Hebrew], in: The Broken Chain: Polish Jewry Through the Ages  Vol. 1 

 

                    (Mercaz Shazar, Jerusalem), 1997.

 

 

       The Indebtedness of the Lublin Kahal in the Eighteenth Century,” Scripta  

 

                    Hierosolymitana 38 [Studies in the History of the Jews in Old Poland   

 

                   (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)], 1998.

 

 

 

       "The Besht's Letters:  Towards a New Assessment" [Hebrew], Jerusalem Studies in        

 

                    Jewish Thought 15 (1999) [= Studies in Hasidism].

 

 

 

       "The Art of Historiography and the Methods of Folklore" [Hebrew], Zion 65

 

                    (2000).

 

 

 

       Shivhei Ha-Besht: document historique, ouvrage de propagande, ou programme

 

                    theologique?” Les cahiers du judaisme 8 (2000).

 

 

 

        "The Role of Gentile Authorities in Resolving Conflicts within Jewish

 

                      Communities in the Early Modern Period," Jewish Political Studies

 

                      Review 12 (2000).

 

 

 

       “The Historiography of Polish Jewry: 1945-1995” [Hebrew], in:

 

                     The Broken Chain: Polish Jewry Through the Ages Vol. 2

 

                     (Mercaz Shazar, Jerusalem), 2001.

 

 

 

        “To Be a Jewish Woman in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth” [Hebrew], in:

 

                     The Broken Chain: Polish Jewry Through the Ages Vol. 2 

 

                     (Mercaz Shazar, Jerusalem), 2001. 

 

    

 

        “A Prolegomenon to Jewish Cultural History,” Jewish Studies: An Internet Journal

 

                     (JSIJ) 1 (2001).

 

 

 

        “Innovative Tradition: The Cultural History of Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian

 

                     Commonwealth,”  in Cultures of the Jews, D. Biale, ed. (Schocken Books,

 

                     New York), 2002.

 

 

 

        Dubno in the Wake of Khmel'nyts'ky,”  Jewish History 17 (2003) [=K. Stow, A.

 

                     Teller (eds.), Jews, Cossacks, Poles and Peasants: Ukraine 1648.]

 

 

 

        “Everyday Violence in the Jewish Communities of the Polish-Lithuanian

 

                      Commonwealth” [Hebrew], in: Essays on Hebrew Literature in Honor of

 

                      Avraham Holtz, Z. B-Y. Ginor, ed. (JTS), 2003.

 

 

 

        "The Nature of Jewish Autonomy in Poland" [Hebrew], in Jewish Self-Government,

 

                       J. Kaplan, I. Bartal, et al., eds. (Mercaz Shazar, Jerusalem), 2004.

 

 

 

        "Historiography Without Apologetics:  The YIVO Edition of Yeven Metzula"

 

                      [Hebrew], in new edition of  Yeven Metzula, M. Rosman, ed. (Hebrew  

 

                      University, Jerusalem), forthcoming.

 

 

 

      “The History of Jewish Women in Early Modern Poland: An Assessment,” Polin 18    

 

                       (2005), forthcoming.

 

 

 

       “Hybrid With What?  The Variable Contexts Of Polish Jewish Culture,” in: Jewish                

 

                      Cultures and Literatures, A. Norich, Y. Eliav, eds. (University of

 

                      Michigan, Ann Arbor), forthcoming.

 

 

 

       “Jacob Katz and the Feminist Revolution” [Hebrew], in? [Shazar Katz Volume], S.    

 

                       Feiner et al. eds. (Mercaz Shazar, Jerusalem), forthcoming.

 

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews

 

 

 

 

 

       Jacob Litman, The Economic Role of the Jews in Medieval

 

                     Poland:  The Contribution of Yitzhak

 

                     Schipper, in: Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR)

 

                     78 (1987-88).

 

 

 

       Nisson E. Shulman, Authority and Community:  Polish Jewry

 

                                                            in the Sixteenth Century, in: JQR 78 (1987-88).

 

 

 

       "Regional Study of the Polish Jewish Community"[Hebrew],

 

                    Jewish Studies 33 (1993).

 

 

       W. T. Bartoszewski and A. Polonsky (eds.), The Jews in

 

                   Warsaw, in: Contemporary Jewry 10 (1994).

 

 

 

       Daniel Tollet, Histoire des Juifs en Pologne in:

 

                    La revue de l'histoire des religions 211 (1994).

 

 

 

       Marcin Wodzinski, Hebrajski inskrypcje na slasku XIII-XVIII

 

                     wieku, in: JQR 92 (2001).

 

 

 

       Allan Nadler, The Faith of the Mithnagdim, in JQR, 92 (2001)

 

     

 

       Elhanan Reiner (ed.), KrokeKazimierzCracow: Studies in the History of         

 

                      Cracow Jewry,  in: Zion 67 (2002).

 

 

 

       Jacob Goldberg (ed.), Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth: Charters of

 

                      Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the 

 

                      Sixteeenth to Eighteenth Centuries, I-III, in Zion  68 (2003).