This is to announce the publication of volume 16 of the annual Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, edited by Michael Steinlauf and Antony Polonsky. This issue is devoted to Jewish popular culture in Poland and its afterlife. The volume include studies of klezmer musicians, recorded music, theater, badkhonim (wedding entertainers), popular literature and press, postcards, workers' libraries, political cartoons, the Jewish underworld, as well as contemporary phenomena such as the trade in Polish wooden figurines of Jews, the Krakow Jewish culture festival, the music of Wolf Krakowski, the canonization of Roman Vishniac. There are also several new studies of Polish-Jewish relations and a large book review section. The volume is available from the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization <www.littman.co.uk>. Michael Steinlauf
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