TY - BOOK AU - Meng,Michael TI - Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland SN - 9780674062818 AV - DS134 U1 - 305.892/404309045 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Jews-Germany-History-1945-1990 KW - Jews-Germany-History-1990- KW - Jews-Poland-History-20th century KW - Jews-Poland-History-21st century KW - Collective memory and city planning-Germany KW - Collective memory and city planning-Poland KW - Memory-Social aspects-Germany KW - Memory-Social aspects-Poland KW - Memorialization-Germany KW - Memorialization-Poland KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3301140 ER -