Gendered Domestic Contact Zones and Jewish–Non-Jewish Coexistence in Interwar Poland

This article examines Jewish–non-Jewish coexistence among the urban poor in interwar Poland, drawing on court and police records from provincial cities. Focusing on shared domestic spaces associated with prostitution, lodging, and informal labor, it reconstructs everyday intimacy, familiarity, and economic interdependence that conventional sources rarely capture. It argues that this coexistence, materially produced by housing shortages, poverty, home-based work, and the exchange of services, created profoundly gendered domestic contact zones.