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Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland /

In a time of national introspection regarding the country's involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Meng, Michael (Editor ), Lehrer, Erica T. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Erica Lehrer and Michael Meng
  • "Oświęcim"/"Auschwitz" : archeology of a mnemonic battleground / Genevieve Zubrzycki
  • Restitution of communal property and the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland / Stanisław Tyszka
  • Muranów as a ruin : layered memories in postwar Warsaw / Michael Meng
  • Stettin, Szczecin, and the "third space" : urban nostalgia in the German/Polish/Jewish borderlands / Magdalena Waligórska
  • Rediscovering the Jewish past in the Polish provinces : the socioeconomics of nostalgia / Monika Murzyn-Kupisz
  • Amnesia, nostalgia, and reconstruction : shifting modes of memory in Poland's Jewish spaces / Sławomir Kapralski
  • Jewish heritage, pluralism, and milieux de memoire : the case of Kraków's Kazimierz / Erica Lehrer
  • "Lodzermensch" and Litzmannstadt : making "virtually German" sites in Łódź after 1989 / Winson Chu
  • Stony survivors : images of Jewish space on the Polish landscape / Robert L. Cohn
  • Reading the palimpsest / Konstanty Gebert
  • A Jew, a cemetery, and a Polish village : a tale of the restoration of memory / Jonathan Webber
  • The Museum of the History of Polish Jews : a postwar, post-Holocaust, post-Communist story / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
  • Epilogue : Jewish spaces and their future / Diana Pinto.