- Summary
- This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.
- Series
- Routledge Studies in Second World War History Series
Routledge Studies in Second World War History Series.
- Format
- Online resource
- Author/Creator
- Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor, 1959-
- Published
- New York ; Routledge, [2024]
©2024
- Locale
- Poland
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction and Overview
Introduction
1 Jews in 20th-Century Poland
Part II: Studies of Wartime
2 The Capacity of the Tzadik in the Late 1930s in Poland According to the Akedat Yitzchak Book
3 "I'm Being Punished Despite My Complete Innocence!": Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) Meets Holocaust Refugees from the German-Occupied Part of Poland, 1939-1941
4 "Maybe the Afterlife Will Be Better" - Letters from Włodawa County during the Holocaust
5 Jews from Markowa: Life, War, and the Struggle to Survive
6 Josef Bürger - The Executioner of the Jews in Łuków
7 Jewish Initiatives of Rescue by Means of Labor and Jewish Self-Help in the Face of Aktion Reinhardt
8 February 1943 in the Białystok Ghetto: The Writings of Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff
Part III: Postwar Jewish Life, Historiography, Commemoration, and Representation
9 Holocaust Monuments in Poland: Forms, Meanings, and Messages
10 Passports from Switzerland: How History Becomes Politics
11 My Love Affair with Jewish History: From Small Town to Source of Identity
12 In Search of the Victims' Agenda: German Scholarship on Polish Jews During the Holocaust
13 March 1968 - The Last Chapter in the History of Polish Jews - Reflection and Representation of the Events of March 1968 in Polish Films
14 Two Jewish Traitors from Ostrowiec: The Zeyfman Brothers
15 "Windows of Memory. The Jewish Community of Bochnia" - Exhibition Organised by the Stanisław Fischer Museum in Bochnia
16 21st-Century Polish Literature and the Shoah: The Struggle for the Memory
Part IV: Family History, Family Memory
17 In Search of the Lost Tydors: An Exercise in Holocaust Documentation
18 "My Parents Left Poland, but Poland Didn't Leave Them": History and Personal Memory.
19 Dis-location: Past - Present - Future in a Changing Silesian Town
20 My Jewish Kraków
21 Following My Roots: Building the Unknown Puzzle of My Family Roots in Poland
22 Can I Be a Good Historian?
About the Contributors
Index Names
Index Places.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor, 1959- editor.
Ganor, Lea.
- Notes
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Introduction and Overview -- Introduction -- 1 Jews in 20th-Century Poland -- Part II: Studies of Wartime -- 2 The Capacity of the Tzadik in the Late 1930s in Poland According to the Akedat Yitzchak Book -- 3 "I'm Being Punished Despite My Complete Innocence!": Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) Meets Holocaust Refugees from the German-Occupied Part of Poland, 1939-1941 -- 4 "Maybe the Afterlife Will Be Better" - Letters from Włodawa County during the Holocaust -- 5 Jews from Markowa: Life, War, and the Struggle to Survive -- 6 Josef Bürger - The Executioner of the Jews in Łuków -- 7 Jewish Initiatives of Rescue by Means of Labor and Jewish Self-Help in the Face of Aktion Reinhardt -- 8 February 1943 in the Białystok Ghetto: The Writings of Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff -- Part III: Postwar Jewish Life, Historiography, Commemoration, and Representation -- 9 Holocaust Monuments in Poland: Forms, Meanings, and Messages -- 10 Passports from Switzerland: How History Becomes Politics -- 11 My Love Affair with Jewish History: From Small Town to Source of Identity -- 12 In Search of the Victims' Agenda: German Scholarship on Polish Jews During the Holocaust -- 13 March 1968 - The Last Chapter in the History of Polish Jews - Reflection and Representation of the Events of March 1968 in Polish Films -- 14 Two Jewish Traitors from Ostrowiec: The Zeyfman Brothers -- 15 "Windows of Memory. The Jewish Community of Bochnia" - Exhibition Organised by the Stanisław Fischer Museum in Bochnia -- 16 21st-Century Polish Literature and the Shoah: The Struggle for the Memory -- Part IV: Family History, Family Memory -- 17 In Search of the Lost Tydors: An Exercise in Holocaust Documentation -- 18 "My Parents Left Poland, but Poland Didn't Leave Them": History and Personal Memory.
19 Dis-location: Past - Present - Future in a Changing Silesian Town -- 20 My Jewish Kraków -- 21 Following My Roots: Building the Unknown Puzzle of My Family Roots in Poland -- 22 Can I Be a Good Historian? -- About the Contributors -- Index Names -- Index Places.
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