Jews in Silesia

Papers from a conference held in May 2000 at the University of Wroclaw. Contents: MIDDLE AGES/EARLY MODERN TIMES Jews in Medieval Legnica; Conversion of Jews in Cieszyn Silesia, 17th-18th C.; FROM THE EMANCIPATION TO THE HOLOCAUST Number/Distribution of the Jewish Population in the Area of Austrian Silesia According to the Census of December 31 1900; A History of Jewish Social Welfare in Bielsko 1860-1939; Jews in Upper-Silesian Grammar Schools; Walking in the Steel Boots of Faith: Anti-Semitic Journalism 1922-39; Religious Life of Katowice Jews, Interwar Period; NAZISM-ANTISEMITISM-HOLOCAUST Silesian Nazi Nationalism and Anti-Semitism 1921-33; Final Solution 1940-45; Schmelt Organisation in Silesia; Situation of the Jewish Population in the Territory of Czech Silesia 1938-45; Pius XI and German Anti-Semitism; Cardinal Bertram and German Episcopate's Attitude towards Nazi Anti-Semitism before 1933; POST-WAR SILESIA Jews in Lower Silesia 1945-50; Settlement in Chojnow 1945-50; Religious Life of Jews, 1945-68; Religious Communities in Upper Silesia; CULTURE AND LANDMARKS Jewish Seals in Austrian Silesia in the 18th Century; Cemetery in Biala (Zuelz); Cemetery of the Jewish Community in Wielowies; Jewish Landmarks of Opava Silesia; In Quest of Identity: Kalman Segal; ARCHIVAL RESOURCES Inventory of Archival Resources for the History of Jews in the Polish Archives (Former East Prussian Provinces 1722-1945); Emigres from Prudnik and the Jewish Community in Osoblaha; Registers of Jewish Communities in Austrian Silesia 1784-1949; Archival Resources on Jewish Associations/Corporations in the Opava Area; From the Studies of the Death Rate of Jewish People in Wroclaw in the Period of Nazi Deportations 1941-44; Nazi Euthanasia in Wroclaw; Jewish Matters in the 1930s in the Archives of the Opole Gestapo; REMINISCENCES, MISCELLANEA Rabbi Kalman Chameides of Katowice; Samuel Scharf of Orlova; Contemporary German Research on the History of Upper-Silesian Jews