Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (310 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Oświęcim"/"Auschwitz": Archeology of a Mnemonic Battleground -- 2 Restitution of Communal Property and the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland -- 3 Muranów as a Ruin: Layered Memories in Postwar Warsaw -- 4 Stettin, Szczecin, and the "Third Space": Urban Nostalgia in the German -- 5 Rediscovering the Jewish Past in the Polish Provinces: The Socioeconomics of Nostalgia -- 6 Amnesia, Nostalgia, and Reconstruction: Shifting Modes of Memory in Poland's Jewish Spaces -- 7 Jewish Heritage, Pluralism, and Milieux de Mémoire: The Case of Kraków's Kazimierz -- 8 "Lodzermensch" and Litzmannstadt: Making "Virtually German" Sites in Łódź after 1989 -- 9 Stony Survivors: Images of Jewish Space on the Polish Landscape -- 10 Reading the Palimpsest -- 11 A Jew, a Cemetery, and a Polish Village: A Tale of the Restoration of Memory -- 12 The Museum of the History of Polish Jews: A Postwar, Post-Holocaust, Post-Communist Story -- Epilogue: Jewish Spaces and Their Future -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
With its emphasis on spaces and built environments, this volume illuminates the role of the material world in the complex encounter with the Jewish past in contemporary Poland.
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Jews--Poland--History--21st century. Jews--Poland--Social conditions--21st century. Collective memory and city planning--Poland. Memorialization--Poland.