Jewish space in contemporary Poland
In a time of national introspection regarding the country's involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in t...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press,
2015
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| Sujets: | Collective memory and city planning Jews Memorialization |
| Description matérielle: | Online-Ressource (310 p) |
| Résumé: | In a time of national introspection regarding the country's involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this book explore issues of the restoration, restitution, memorializing, and tourism that have brought present inhabitants into contact with initiatives to revive Jewish sites. They reveal that an emergent Jewish presence in both urban and rural landscapes exists in conflict and collaboration with othe |
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| Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Description matérielle: | Online-Ressource (310 p) |
| ISBN: | 9780253015006 0253015006 9780253015068 0253015065 |