Jewish presence in absence : the aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland, 1944-2010 / edited by Feliks Tych and Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska ; translated from Polish by Grzegorz Dąbkowski and Jessica Taylor-Kucia.

"This volume is partly based on the lectures presented at the international conference, "The aftermath of the Holocaust: Poland, 1944-2010", which was convened by the Diana Zborowski Center for the Study of the Aftermath of the Shoah at the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Post-War Landscape -- The Return ofJewish Holocaust Survivors and the Reaction of the Polish Population / Alina Skibiflska -- The Post-War Wave of Pogroms and Killings / Andrzej Zbikowski -- Polish-Jewish Displaced Persons in Occupied Germany / Tamar Lewinsky -- The Adaptation of Survivors to the Post-War Reality from 1944 to 1949 / Ewa Kozminska-Frejlak -- Jews and Political Life in Poland from 1944 to 1949 / August Grabski -- How Many Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust? / Albert Stankowski -- Revival and Unfulfilled Hopes -- A New Life: Jewish Institutions and Organizations in Poland from 1944 to 1950 / Grzegorz Berendt -- Jewish Religious Life in Poland after the Holocaust / August Grabski and Albert Stankowski -- Children in the Polish-Jewish Community from 1944 to 1968 / Helena Datner -- Yiddish Culture in Poland after the Holocaust / Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov and Magdalena Ruta -- Responses to the Holocaust in Polish and Yiddish Literature / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska and Magdalena Ruta -- Jewish Artists in Poland after the Holocaust / Renata Piatkowska -- The Impact of the 1956 Liberalization of Poland's Political System on the Jewish Population / Grzegorz Berendt -- The "March '68" Antisemitic Campaign: Onset, Development, and Consequences / Feliks Tych -- Post-War Emigration of Jews from Poland: The Case of Krakow / Edyta Gawron -- Remembering and Forgetting -- Memorial Books As a Remembrance of Collective Trauma / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska and Adam Kopciowsh -- Traces of Jewish Presence: Synagogues and Cemeteries from 1944 to 1997 / Eleonora Bergman and Jan Jagielski -- Concentration Camps and Death Camps As Memorial Sites to Jewish Victims or Mutual Polish-Jewish Martyrdom Sites / Robert Kuwalek -- The Role Played by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Public Discourse and the Evolving Consciousness of the Holocaust in Polish Society / Slawomir Kapralski -- The Attitude of the Catholic Church in Poland to Jewish Issues after the Holocaust from 1944 to 1989 / Bozena Szaynok -- The Place of the Holocaust in the Consciousness of Polish Jews / Malgorzata Melchior -- The Presentation of the Holocaust in Polish History Textbooks from 1945 to 2010 / Hanna Wegrzynek -- Holocaust Consciousness among Polish Youth after the 1989 Collapse of Communism / Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs -- What Remains -- The Contemporary Jewish Community in Poland and the Holocaust / Helena Datner -- The Effect of the Legal Status of Jewish Property in Post-War Poland on Polish-Jewish Relations / Monika Krawczyk -- From Jewish Culture to Culture about Jews / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska and Magdtilena Ruta -- The Debate around the Jedwabne Massacre / Dariusz Libionka -- Ethnographic Findings on the Aftermath of the Holocaust through Jewish and Polish Eyes / Joanna Tokarska-Bakir -- Gratitude and Oblivion: The Attitude of Poles and Jews toward the Righteous from 1944/45 to 2007 / Ewa Koiminska-Frejlak -- How Ordinary Poles See the Jews: Review and Interpretation of 1967 to 2008 Survey Results / Antoni Sulek -- The Aftermath of the Holocaust: Poland, 1944-2010 Concluding Observations / Antony Polansky --

English, translated from Polish.