LEADER 04937cam a2200529 i 4500001 286970 005 20240624132618.0 008 221222s2022 njua b 001 0 eng 010 2021059569 020 9780691237220 |q(hardback) 020 9780691237237 |q(paperback) 020 |z9780691237244 |q(ebook) 035 (DLC) 2021059569 035 (DLC)286970 042 pcc 043 e-pl--- 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC 050 00 DS134.56 |b.Z83 2022 082 00 305.892/40438 |223/eng/20220208 084 SOC039000SOC049000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Zubrzycki, Geneviève, |eauthor. 245 10 Resurrecting the Jew : |bnationalism, philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish revival / |cGeneviève Zubrzycki. 246 30 Nationalism, philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish revival 264 1 Princeton : |bPrinceton University Press, |c[2022] 300 xxii, 264 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Princeton studies in cultural sociology 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index. 505 0 Contemporary Poland and "the Jews" -- Traces and the sensorium : the materiality of Jewish absence -- "The way we were" : nostalgia and romantic philosemitism -- Museum encounters : cultural diplomacy and national pedagogy in the twenty-first century -- "With one color, we cannot see" : multicultural dreams and registers of engagement -- Coming out : "new Jews" and the reconstruction of Jewish identity -- Memory, mythology, and nationalism. 520 "In recent years there has been a burgeoning interest in all things Jewish in Poland. The country's recent "Jewish turn" has been characterized by the proliferation of festivals of Jewish culture, the commercial success of klezmer music, the spread of Judaica bookstores and Jewish-style restaurants, the opening of new Jewish museums, the development and expansion of Jewish studies programs and Holocaust research centers, and the public soul-searching about Polish-Jewish relations before, during, and after the Holocaust. Poland's recent sharp turn to the right has not put the brakes on this phenomenon, as it marries well with a certain type of right-wing philosemitism that lauds the Israeli government's ethnocentric understanding of Zionism. Polish Judeophilia has been driven almost entirely by non-Jewish Poles, although the tiny Polish Jewish community is being bolstered by those Poles who have recently discovered their Jewish ancestry and have begun to self-define as Jewish. In this book, Geneviève Zubrzycki draws on more than a decade of field research conducted in Kraków, Warsaw, and Wrocław from 2010-18, during which she tracked changing Polish-Jewish relations and documented non-Jewish Poles' rising interest in Judaism and Jewish culture. She conducted fieldwork at festivals of Jewish culture across Poland, and was a frequent participant-observer at the Kraków Festival of Jewish Culture. She analyzed the core exhibits and programs of five newly opened Jewish museums; attended large Christian "Passover Seders" aimed at Catholics and Protestants eager to learn about Judaism; and accompanied Polish Jewish youth on a Birthright trip to Israel. She also conducted nearly 100 open-ended interviews with key actors and representatives of institutions involved in major Jewish initiatives and activities, such as rabbis, communal leaders, museologists, artists, newspaper editors, and public intellectuals, as well as participants in communal and cultural events. Zubrzycki, while acknowledging that the interests and motives behind this Jewish revival are varied, argues that it is part of a broader struggle to redefine what constitutes Polishness, and specifically to challenge narrowly nationalistic, ethno-cultural associations of Polishness with Catholicism"-- |cProvided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive brief record update service 24 June 2024 599 Shelved at 79-2-3 650 0 Jews |zPoland |xHistory |y21st century. 650 0 Jews |zPoland |xSocial conditions |y21st century. 650 0 Jews |zPoland |xSocial life and customs |y21st century. 650 0 Nationalism |zPoland |xReligious aspects. 650 0 National characteristics, Polish. 651 0 Poland |xReligious life and customs |y21st century. 650 0 Judaism |xRelations |xCatholic Church. 610 20 Catholic Church |xRelations |xJudaism. 650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion. |2bisacsh 650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies. |2bisacsh 776 08 |iOnline version:Zubrzycki, Geneviève. |tResurrecting the Jew |dPrinceton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2022] |z9780691237244 |w(DLC) 2021059570 830 0 Princeton studies in cultural sociology. 852 0 |breceiving |kShelved at 79-2-3