Making Holocaust Memory (20) - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1904113060 ISBN 13 : 9781904113065

Editeur : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007

Synopsis

Although the reconciliation of Jewish and Polish memories of the Holocaust is the central issue in contemporary Polish Jewish relations, this is the first attempt to examine these divisive memories in a comprehensive way. Until 1989, Polish consciousness of the Second World War subsumed the destruction of Polish Jewry within a communist narrative of Polish martyrdom and heroism. Post-war Jewish memory, by contrast, has been concerned mostly with Jewish martyrdom and heroism (and barely acknowledged the plight of Poles under German occupation). Since the 1980s, however, a significant number of Jews and Poles have sought to identify a common ground and have met with partial but increasing success, notwithstanding the new debates that have emerged in recent years concerning Polish behaviour during the Nazi genocide of the Jews that Poles had ignored for half a century. This volume considers these contentious issues from different angles. Among the topics covered are Jewish memorial projects, both in Poland and beyond its borders, the Polish approach to Holocaust memory under communist rule, and post-communist efforts both to retrieve the Jewish dimension to Polish wartime memory and to reckon with the dark side of the Polish national past. An interview with acclaimed author Henryk Grynberg touches on many of these issues from the personal perspective of one who as a child survived the Holocaust hidden in the Polish countryside, as do the three poems by Grynberg reproduced here. The New Views section features innovative research in other areas of Polish Jewish studies. A special section is devoted to research concerning the New Synagogue in Poznan, built in 1907, which is still standing only because the Nazis turned it into a swimming-pool. CONTRIBUTORS Natalia Aleksiun, Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Boaz Cohen, Judith R. Cohen, Gabriel N. Finder, Rebecca Golbert, Regina Grol, Jonathan Huener, Carol Herselle Krinsky, Marta Kurkowska, Joanna B. Michlic, Eva Plach, Antony Polonsky, Alexander V. Prusin, Jan Schwarz, Maxim D. Shrayer, Michael C. Steinlauf, Robert Szuchta, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Scott Ury, Bret Werb, Seth L. Wolitz

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gabriel N. Finder is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. Natalia Aleksiun is Assistant Professor in Eastern European Jewish History, Touro College, New York. Antony Polonsky is Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Jan Schwarz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904113060
• ISBN 13: 9781904113065
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 510
• Éditeur: Finder Gabriel N., Aleksiun Natalia, Polonsky Antony, Schwarz Jan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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