| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
"Everything was a void" : new order and social chaos -- "There are no Jews here" : the language of de-Judaization -- To whom does it belong? Ownership and doubts -- Resentment and compassion -- The antechamber of mystery -- Liberalization, nationalism, and erasure -- Profanation and dirt -- Residual presence -- Anxiety and rediscovery -- The dialectics of preservation -- Conclusions: Enduring ambivalence |
| Summary |
"The book examines the fate and symbolic status of Jewish cemeteries and synagogues in post-WWII Poland, focusing on the ways in which these sites were perceived, discussed, and experienced by municipal officials and local inhabitants in small towns that had a substantial Jewish presence until the Holocaust" -- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Jewish cemeteries and synagogues after the Holocaust, memory of the Holocaust in Poland, postwar poland Jewish culture, Polish population in the former shtetls, how socities live with their past |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
Jewish cemeteries -- Social aspects -- Poland
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Synagogues -- Social aspects -- Poland
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Judaism and culture -- Poland
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Jewish cemeteries -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
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Synagogues -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY / Holocaust
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Jewish cemeteries
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Judaism and culture
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Synagogues
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Poland
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021015202 |
| ISBN |
1501761757 |
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9781501761768 |
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1501761765 |
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9781501761751 |
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