„W roku przyszłym oby w Jerozolimie!”, czyli wstęp do żydowskiej wyobraźni. (Cykl badawczy „Żydzi Wschodniej Polski”, tom X)

Abstract

The text is an introduction to the tenth volume of the study series Jews of Eastern Poland, devoted to the images of Jerusalem in Jewish culture. The author shows various levels of the importance Jerusalem has had for the Jewish imagination. A special point of reference for the researcher is the Jewish press published in Polish lands in the 19th and 20th centuries. As he writes: “To study a culture is to look for its message, to uncover the layers of meaning superimposed on it by history; this means, for example, revealing the importance of messianism as the vital juice that irrigates the community, and recognizing the existence of the images that unite the community, such as that of Jerusalem.”