Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery by Professor Natalia Aleksiun and Professor Halina Goldberg Sale Books There's the Polish rabbi blackmailed 9781949217049 There's the Polish rabbi blackmailed by an American widow Adeena Sussman looked forward to the magic of Shabbat—the traditional Jewish day of rest—all week Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War (1899–1939) thereby illuminating the place of Polish Jews within urban European cultures