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Unsettled Heritage : Living next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust /

"The book examines the fate and symbolic status of Jewish cemeteries and synagogues in post-WWII Poland, focusing on the ways in which these sites were perceived, discussed, and experienced by municipal officials and local inhabitants in small towns that had a substantial Jewish presence until...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weizman, Yechiel, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Everything was a void." New order and social chaos
  • "There are no Jews here." The language of de-Judaization
  • To whom does it belong? Ownership and doubts
  • Resentment and compassion
  • The antechamber of mystery
  • Liberalization, nationalism, and erasure
  • Profanation and dirt
  • Residual presence
  • Anxiety and rediscovery
  • The dialectics of preservation
  • Conclusions. Enduring ambivalence.