CONTENTS

STUDIES

Maurycy Horn, Jewish Jurisdiction's Dependence on Royal Power in Poland and Lithuania up to 1548.
Jakub Goldberg, 18th Century Memoirs of Polish Jews. Memoirs of Mojżesz Wasercug from Great Poland.
Krystyna Zienkowska, Citizens or Inhabitants? The Attempt to Reform The Status of the Polish Jews During the Four Years' Sejm.
Jan Doktór, Jakub Frank, a Jewish Heresiarch and His Messianic Doctrine.
Adam Penkalla, Rabbis in the Radom Province in the 19th Century (1815-1914). A Tentative Analysis.
Jan M. Małecki, Cracow Jews in the 19th Century: Leaving the Ghetto.
Jerzy Tomaszewski, The Expulsion of Jewish Polish Citizens from Germany on October 28-29, 1938.
Jacek Leociak, The Religious Discourse in the Extant Warsaw Ghetto Texts.
Teresa Prekerowa, Who Helped Jews During The Holocaust in Poland?
Bożena Szaynok, The Beginnings of Jewish Settlement in Lower Silesia after World War II (May 1945 -- January 1946).
Krystyna Kersten, The Pogrom of Jews in Kielce on July 4, 1946.

REVIEWS

Bożena Wyrozumska ed., Jews in Medieval Cracow. Selected Records from Cracow Municipal Registers (Tomasz Wiślicz); Waldemar Kowalski and Jadwiga Muszyńska eds, Jews among Christians during the Times of the Noblemen's Commonwealth (Maria Bogucka); Jan M. Małecki, Elżbieta Szlufik eds, Jewish Trade in Cracow at the End of the 16th and in the 17th Century. Selected Records from Cracow Customs Registers 1593-1683 (Maria Bogucka); Hanna Węgrzynek, "The Black Legend" of the Jews. The Trials for Alleged Ritual Murder in Old Poland (Jacek Wijaczka); Zenon Guldon, Jacek Wijaczka, Trials for Ritual Murder in 16th-18th Century Poland (Stefan Gąsiorowski); Gabriela Zalewska, Jewish Population in Warsaw in the Inter-War Period (Anna Landau-Czajka); Frowald G. Hüttenmeister, Abkürzungsverzeichnis hebräischer Grabinschriften (Krzysztof Pilarczyk).

ABSTRACTS

NEWS

The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute (Hanna Węgrzynek).