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Shattered Spaces : Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (368 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062818
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shattered SpacesDDC classification:
  • 305.892/404309045
LOC classification:
  • DS134
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Confronting the Spoils of Genocide -- 2. Clearing Jewish Rubble -- 3. Erasing the Jewish Past -- 4. Restoring Jewish Ruins -- 5. Reconstructing the Jewish Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left of Jewish life in many German and Polish cities. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years, is the story this book tells.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Confronting the Spoils of Genocide -- 2. Clearing Jewish Rubble -- 3. Erasing the Jewish Past -- 4. Restoring Jewish Ruins -- 5. Reconstructing the Jewish Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left of Jewish life in many German and Polish cities. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years, is the story this book tells.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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