LEADER 03407cam a2200433Ia 4500001 117766 005 20240621201616.0 008 060510s2005 xx rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3186683 |bUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocm68968175 035 117766 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 DS135.P6 |bL45 2005 100 1 Lehrer, Erica T. 245 10 Shoah-business, Holocaust culture, and the repair of the world in post-Jewish Poland : |ba quest for ethnography, empathy, and the ethnic self after genocide / |cby Erica T. Lehrer. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2005. 300 xi, 307 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 2005. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-307). 520 This dissertation illustrates how a moral burden of history manifests itself in social relationships, cultural processes, and material products. Specifically, it argues that what appears to many as a superficial, commercially motivated revival of Jewishness in Poland is also a significant joint venture between non-Jewish Poles and Jewish visitors to Poland in exploring inter-ethnic memory-building and reconciliation. The findings are based on 18 months of ethnographic research in the historical Jewish quarter (Kazimierz) in Kraków, Poland, with further research in Israel and the United States among diaspora Jews.My research reveals that the notion of uniform "Holocaust tourism" disguises a movement to contest "lachrymose" conceptions of Jewishness as victimhood. I document a sense of Jewish connection to Poland-overlooked in mainstream discourses-that animates new generations of Jews and Poles to seek each other out. Similarly, much of the "Jewish" revival in Kazimierz is orchestrated by non-Jewish Poles. I show how they use identification with Jewishness to reconfigure their own Polishness and their visions for a pluralistic Polish nation state.I conclude that (1) popular cultural products, practices, and spaces can be important manifestations of-and tools for-moral reckoning; (2) identification with "someone else's" ethnicity/religion (often called "appropriation") can be understood as an enlargement of, rather than an escape from, the self, and (3) Kazimierz in Kraków represents the cutting edge of Polish-Jewish relations via local grassroots culture brokers who use Jewishness to expand the Polish "universe of obligation." 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2006. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Jews |zPoland |xIdentity. 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zKraków |xHistory. 651 0 Poland |xEthnic relations. 651 0 Kraków (Poland) |xHistory. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=982807141&sid=19&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib117766/3186683.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 C0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hDS135.P6 |iL45 2005 852 |bwww 852 0 |bscstacks |hDS135.P6 |iL45 2005 |tc.2 852 0 |bebook