Rachel Manekin
Biographic Data
| ID | 2832728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Manekin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Manekin |
| SIGNATURE | MANEKIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Samuel Adler
Filling the position of district rabbi and temple preacher in Lemberg after the assassination of Rabbi Abraham Kohn in 1848 was a difficult task. The first applicant, Samuel Adler, was district rabbi of Alzey, Germany, and a known religious reformer; however, he reneged on the contract and subsequently accepted the position of rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York. Based on newly discovered archival documents, this chapter provides the background …
The Cracow Bais Yaakov Teachers' Seminary and Sarah Schenirer
Academic scholarship on the Cracow Bais Yaakov teachers' seminary in interwar Poland, and on the Bais Yaakov movement in general, has relied to a large extent on internal sources, such as promotional literature, the Bais Yaakov journal, semihistorical accounts by interested parties, and memoirs written after the Holocaust. The reason for that was the dearth of other sources. The present article provides an analysis of excerpts from a hitherto unn…
The Laws of Moses and the Laws of the Emperor
The Rebellion of the Daughters
This book investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only. The book reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles …
Rebellion of the Daughters
Romantic Love
This chapter centers on Debora Lewkowicz, a daughter of a village tavernkeeper, who completed her primary school education in the city of Wieliczka in Western Galicia. It discusses Debora's close relationship with a young Pole, as a result of which her father quickly arranged for her to marry a Jewish man. It also refers to Debora's escape on the eve of her wedding and entry into the Felician Sisters' convent, where she was subsequently baptized …
Religious Ardor
This chapter talks about Michalina Araten as one of the Galician runaway girls, who came from an affluent Hasidic home and enjoyed an education in a private prestigious primary school in Kraków. It recounts how Michalina was attracted to Catholicism while in school and initiated an acquaintance with a military officer, Dr. Philipp Müller, who lived across from her home. It also narrates Michalina's entry into the Felician Sisters' convent and lat…
The Rebellion of the Daughters
From Anna Kluger to Sarah Schenirer
The Prayer House of a Galician Maskil
One of the markers of the emerging Reform movement in the first quarter of the nineteenth century was the publication of synagogue regulations that introduced new norms of decorum and, occasionally, slight changes in the prayer service. Scholarly discussions of the first synagogue regulations have been limited to the available published regulations, namely, the Westphalian (1810) and Amsterdam's Adat Jesurun regulations (1809). The recently disco…
Constructing Polish Jewry’s ‘Shrine of History’
Gaming the System
This article discusses the struggle over rabbinical positions in the largely traditional Jewish community of Lemberg in the mid-nineteenth century. Special attention is given to the legal and administrative system, imperial and local, within which this struggle was shaped. The article explains the reasons for the appointments of the Bohemian born Rabbi Abraham Kohn to rabbinic positions in Lemberg, showing that what made those appointments possib…
Praying at Home in Lemberg
A Jewish Lithuanian preacher in the context of religious Enlightenment
This paper re-examines the activities of the anti-hasidic Lithuanian preacher Israel Löbel in the years 1798–1799. During this period Löbel travelled to Galicia to disseminate his two anti-hasidic Hebrew works, and published in Frankfurt his famous Glaubwürdige Nachricht, etc., as well as his Hebrew Even Bohan. Newly discovered archival material enables us to reconstruct Löbel’s sojourn in Galicia in its political and legal context, and a rereadi…
Orthodox Jewry in Kraków at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The Lost Generation
Politics, Religion, and National Identity
A Jewish Lithuanian preacher in the context of religious Enlightenment
This paper re-examines the activities of the anti-hasidic Lithuanian preacher Israel Löbel in the years 1798–1799. During this period Löbel travelled to Galicia to disseminate his two anti-hasidic Hebrew works, and published in Frankfurt his famous Glaubwürdige Nachricht, etc., as well as his Hebrew Even Bohan. Newly discovered archival material enables us to reconstruct Löbel’s sojourn in Galicia in its political and legal context, and a rereadi…
Politics, Religion, and National Identity
The Lost Generation
Orthodox Jewry in Kraków at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Praying at Home in Lemberg
A Jewish Lithuanian preacher in the context of religious Enlightenment
This paper re-examines the activities of the anti-hasidic Lithuanian preacher Israel Löbel in the years 1798–1799. During this period Löbel travelled to Galicia to disseminate his two anti-hasidic Hebrew works, and published in Frankfurt his famous Glaubwürdige Nachricht, etc., as well as his Hebrew Even Bohan. Newly discovered archival material enables us to reconstruct Löbel’s sojourn in Galicia in its political and legal context, and a rereadi…
Gaming the System
This article discusses the struggle over rabbinical positions in the largely traditional Jewish community of Lemberg in the mid-nineteenth century. Special attention is given to the legal and administrative system, imperial and local, within which this struggle was shaped. The article explains the reasons for the appointments of the Bohemian born Rabbi Abraham Kohn to rabbinic positions in Lemberg, showing that what made those appointments possib…
Constructing Polish Jewry’s ‘Shrine of History’
The Prayer House of a Galician Maskil
One of the markers of the emerging Reform movement in the first quarter of the nineteenth century was the publication of synagogue regulations that introduced new norms of decorum and, occasionally, slight changes in the prayer service. Scholarly discussions of the first synagogue regulations have been limited to the available published regulations, namely, the Westphalian (1810) and Amsterdam's Adat Jesurun regulations (1809). The recently disco…
The Rebellion of the Daughters
This book investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only. The book reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles …
Rebellion of the Daughters
Romantic Love
This chapter centers on Debora Lewkowicz, a daughter of a village tavernkeeper, who completed her primary school education in the city of Wieliczka in Western Galicia. It discusses Debora's close relationship with a young Pole, as a result of which her father quickly arranged for her to marry a Jewish man. It also refers to Debora's escape on the eve of her wedding and entry into the Felician Sisters' convent, where she was subsequently baptized …
Religious Ardor
This chapter talks about Michalina Araten as one of the Galician runaway girls, who came from an affluent Hasidic home and enjoyed an education in a private prestigious primary school in Kraków. It recounts how Michalina was attracted to Catholicism while in school and initiated an acquaintance with a military officer, Dr. Philipp Müller, who lived across from her home. It also narrates Michalina's entry into the Felician Sisters' convent and lat…
The Rebellion of the Daughters
From Anna Kluger to Sarah Schenirer
The Laws of Moses and the Laws of the Emperor
The Cracow Bais Yaakov Teachers' Seminary and Sarah Schenirer
Academic scholarship on the Cracow Bais Yaakov teachers' seminary in interwar Poland, and on the Bais Yaakov movement in general, has relied to a large extent on internal sources, such as promotional literature, the Bais Yaakov journal, semihistorical accounts by interested parties, and memoirs written after the Holocaust. The reason for that was the dearth of other sources. The present article provides an analysis of excerpts from a hitherto unn…
Samuel Adler
Filling the position of district rabbi and temple preacher in Lemberg after the assassination of Rabbi Abraham Kohn in 1848 was a difficult task. The first applicant, Samuel Adler, was district rabbi of Alzey, Germany, and a known religious reformer; however, he reneged on the contract and subsequently accepted the position of rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York. Based on newly discovered archival documents, this chapter provides the background …
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