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- Title
Andrzej Trzcinski, “Hebrajskie inskrypcje na materiale kamiennym w Polsce w XIII-XX wieku. Studium paleograficzno-epigraficzne,” Lublin 2007, Wydawnictwo Universytetu Marii Curie Sklodowskiej w Lublinie, ss. 398, ryciny.
- Authors
Wodzinski, Marcin
- Abstract
This article is a review of the book, “Hebraic Inscriptions upon Stone Materials within Poland in the 13th to 20th centuries: A Paleographic-Epigraphic Study,” written by Andrzej Trzcinski, a unique and monumental Polish-language work examining the paleographic-epigraphic legacy of Jews within Polish territory at its geographic apex and spanning a period from the 13th to the 20th centuries. The reviewer summarizes the book’s individual chapters, noting the topics and/or analyses presented within each, lauding the author’s methodology and clear, logical presentation, and praising the incorporation of useful summaries, appendices, indexes, bibliographic information, tables, as well as the book’s 157 illustrations, 270 charts, 613 photographs (enclosed in the work’s accompanying CD-ROM). The reviewer, however, regrets that Trzcinski had not also provided a broader cultural analysis of the Polish Jews within the work, one which would have been helpful because the book raises so many pertinent questions about Jewish society in the various time periods (e.g., what specific changes within their society influenced the changes, over time, in terms of the styles of Hebrew writing engraved upon gravestones?). He also has doubts whether Trzcinski will succeed in persuading others to follow his new yet complicated approach, methods, and very specific terminology with respect to the study of paleography in Poland--this despite the fact that the remainder of the work, in his opinion, will be considered a resource/model for the study of the epigraphy in Poland.
- Subjects
POLAND; HEBREW inscriptions; PALEOGRAPHY; NONFICTION; JEWISH history; POLISH history; SEPULCHRAL monuments; TRZCINSKI, Andrzej
- Publication
Quarterly of the History of Material Culture / Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 2008, Vol 56, Issue 2, p237
- ISSN
0023-5881
- Publication type
Book Review