This study examines the emergence, survival, and triumph of Hasidism—a popular Jewish mystical movement based on the teachings of R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov (“The Besht”, c.1700–1760)—in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Central Poland, the territory which would come to…
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This work focuses on the first decades of Nahum Sokolow's public activity, during which he dedicated himself to strengthening the social fabric of Polish Jewry. Sokolow, the leading Jewish journalist in Poland during the 1880s and 1890s, hoped to influence several of the compone…
The purpose of this study is to address the issue of different frequencies of null-subject phenomena (pro-drop) according to various morphosyntactic environments. Even though many scholars have studied null subjects, little attention has been focused on the different frequencies…
Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, millions of East European Jews made the decision to abandon their places of birth and migrate to larger cities throughout the world. This dissertation examines how mass migration prompted the development of new forms of …
In the nineteenth century, foreign travel became much easier than it had ever been before. Improvements in the means of transportation enabled travelers to cover greater distances. The changing economics of travel made traveling accessible to a greater number of people. At the s…
Krzysztof Kieślowski is regarded as one of the most universal Polish film directors. However, the author wishes to argue that his work was deeply rooted in his sense of Polishness. In terms of research methods, this thesis utilises the existing abundant li terature on nation and…
Previous research has shown some significant differences in the way speech acts are made and responded to in different cultures and languages. This study investigates two speech acts in particular, compliments and refusals, in two specific cultures, England and Poland. The proje…
This dissertation explores the construction of the “mixed-heritage” category in Polish community-based heritage language education (HLE) and its effect on school purposes and school operations. As the number of heritage language speakers in the US who identify with multiple ethn…