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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2022.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- "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.