Physical Description
vii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Erica Lehrer and Michael Meng
1. "Oswiecim"/"Auschwitz": Archeology of a Mnemonic Battleground / Genevieve Zubrzycki
2. Restitution of Communal Property and the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland / Stanislaw Tyszka
3. Muranow as a Ruin: Layered Memories in Postwar Warsaw / Michael Meng
4. Stettin, Szczecin, and the "Third Space": Urban Nostalgia in the German/Polish/Jewish Borderlands / Magdalena Waligorska
5. Rediscovering the Jewish Past in the Polish Provinces: The Socioeconomics of Nostalgia / Monika Murzyn-Kupisz
6. Amnesia, Nostalgia, and Reconstruction: Shifting Modes of Memory in Poland's Jewish Spaces / Slawomir Kapralski
7. Jewish Heritage, Pluralism, and Milieux de Memoire: The Case of Krakow's Kazimierz / Erica Lehrer
8. "Lodzermensch" and Litzmannstadt: Making "Virtually German" Sites in Lodz after 1989 / Winson Chu
9. Stony Survivors: Images of Jewish Space on the Polish Landscape / Robert L. Cohn
10. Reading the Palimpsest / Konstanty Gebert
11. A Jew, a Cemetery, and a Polish Village: A Tale of the Restoration of Memory / Jonathan Webber
12. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews: A Postwar, Post-Holocaust, Post-Communist Story / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Epilogue: Jewish Spaces and Their Future / Diana Pinto
Contributors
Index
Other Authors/Editors
Lehrer, Erica T., editor.
Meng, Michael, editor.
ISBN
9780253015006
0253015006 (hbk.)
0253015030 (pbk.)
9780253015037 (pbk.)
Notes
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Erica Lehrer and Michael Meng -- 1. "Oswiecim"/"Auschwitz": Archeology of a Mnemonic Battleground / Genevieve Zubrzycki -- 2. Restitution of Communal Property and the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland / Stanislaw Tyszka -- 3. Muranow as a Ruin: Layered Memories in Postwar Warsaw / Michael Meng -- 4. Stettin, Szczecin, and the "Third Space": Urban Nostalgia in the German/Polish/Jewish Borderlands / Magdalena Waligorska -- 5. Rediscovering the Jewish Past in the Polish Provinces: The Socioeconomics of Nostalgia / Monika Murzyn-Kupisz -- 6. Amnesia, Nostalgia, and Reconstruction: Shifting Modes of Memory in Poland's Jewish Spaces / Slawomir Kapralski -- 7. Jewish Heritage, Pluralism, and Milieux de Memoire: The Case of Krakow's Kazimierz / Erica Lehrer -- 8. "Lodzermensch" and Litzmannstadt: Making "Virtually German" Sites in Lodz after 1989 / Winson Chu -- 9. Stony Survivors: Images of Jewish Space on the Polish Landscape / Robert L. Cohn -- 10. Reading the Palimpsest / Konstanty Gebert -- 11. A Jew, a Cemetery, and a Polish Village: A Tale of the Restoration of Memory / Jonathan Webber -- 12. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews: A Postwar, Post-Holocaust, Post-Communist Story / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Epilogue: Jewish Spaces and Their Future / Diana Pinto -- Contributors -- Index
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