Damian Jankowski Libros

This book features the mechanisms underlying the life of Jewish communities and the policies pursued by their authorities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th-18th centuries on the example of two communities: Poznań and Swarzędz. It covers such issues as election of community officials and their responsibilities, the rabbi's office, community courts, craftsmen's guilds and brotherhoods, control exercised by the community authorities over residents, the community's fiscal policy, the relations between the principal community (in that case Poznań) and its branch (here Swarzędz), and the relations between Jewish communities and non-Jewish authorities. Anna Michałowska-Mycielska is a historian working at the Institute of History, Warsaw University. The subject of her studies is the history and culture of Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th-18th centuries. She published: Między demokracją a oligarchią. Władze gmin żydowskich w Poznaniu i Swarzędzu (od połowy XVII do końca XVIII wieku) [Between Democracy and Oligarchy: Jewish Communal Authorities in Poznań and Swarzędz from the Middle of the Seventeenth to the End of the Eighteenth Century], Warszawa 2000 Gminy żydowskie w dawnej Rzeczypospolitej. Wybór tekstów źrodłowych [Jewish communities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Selection of Source Texts], Warszawa 2003 Pinkas kahatu swarzędzkiego (1734-1830) [Pinkas of the Swarzedz Kahal (1734-1830)] Warszawa 2005 Sejmy i sejmiki koronne wobec Żydow. Wybór tekstów źródłowych [Diets and Dietines in Poland and the Jews. Selection of Source Texts], Warszawa 2006 Sejm Żydow litewskich (1623-1764) [The Council of Lithuanian Jews (1623-1764)], Warszawa 2014

The Council of Lithuanian Jews (Lithuanian Vaad) was the central representative organ of the Jews in the Grand Duchy of Lithua¬nia. It operated for nearly one and a half centuries (1623-1764), touching all spheres of the Jewish community’s life. It undertook important initiatives for the benefit of its constituency at diets and dietines (legislative assemblies of the nobility), at the courts of the King and important magnates, and in non-Jewish courts of law. This book discusses the Council’s activities in the context of processes and phenomena present in Jewish society of the time, illustrating the life of Lithuanian Jewry as a separate estate guided by a common sense of identity transcending local affiliation. Anna Michałowska-Mycielska is a historian working at the Institute of History, Warsaw University. The subject of her studies is the history and culture of Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–18th centuries. he published: Między demokracją a oligarchią. Władze gmin żydowskich w Poznaniu i Swarzędzu (od połowy XVII do końca XVIII wieku), Warszawa 2000 The English translation: The Jewish Community. Authority and Social Control in Poznań and Swarzędz, 1650-1793, Wrocław 2008 (2nd edition: Warszawa 2015) Gminy żydowskie w dawnej Rzeczypospolitej. Wybór tekstów źródłowych, Warszawa 2003 Pinkas kahału swarzędzkiego (1734-1830), Warszawa 2005 Sejmy i sejmiki koronne wobec Żydów. Wybór tekstów źródłowych, Warszawa 2006 Sejm Żydów litewskich (1623-1764), Warszawa 2014 Pinkas kahału boćkowskiego (1714-1817), Warszawa 2015

Czy księżom przydałoby się przygotowanie psychologiczne? Czy psychoanaliza zastąpi spowiedź? Skąd popularność mszy o uzdrowienie i egzorcyzmów? Czy religia jest źródłem cierpień? Co zrobić, by Kościół był wspólnotą, a nie korporacją? Czy Bóg jest wszechmocny? Gdzie kończy się przypadek, a zaczyna cud? odpowiedzi na te i inne trudne pytania szuka ks. Andrzej Pęcherzewski, psychoterapeuta i proboszcz nadmorskiej parafii, w osobistej rozmowie z redaktorem Więzi Damianem Jankowskim.