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Unsettled heritage : living next to Poland's material Jewish traces after the Holocaust / Yechiel Weizman

Ṿeitsman, Yeḥiʾel, 1982- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2022

xiv, 289 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Weizman, Yechiel, 1982- : Unsettled heritage. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-5017-6174-4 (hardcover)

978-1-5017-6176-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-1-5017-6175-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021015201

OCoLC: 1304484341     

DS134.55

363.7/50899240438     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel)

*Polen ; Juden ; Kulturerbe ; Synagoge ; Jüdischer Friedhof ; Interaktion ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Geschichte 1945-2015     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jewish cemeteries -- Social aspects -- Poland ; Synagogues -- Social aspects -- Poland ; Judaism and culture -- Poland ; Jewish cemeteries -- Poland -- History -- 20th century ; Synagogues -- Poland -- History -- 20th century

"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.

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"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 the Holocaust" --