Jewish space in contemporary Poland /edited by Erica T. Lehrer, Michael Meng. 

 - Baltimore, Maryland :  Project Muse,  (c)2015. Bloomington, Indiana :  Indiana University Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource (1 PDF (vii, 299 pages) :) :  illustrations, maps 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Acknowledgments --  Introduction /  "Oświecim"/"Auschwitz" : archeology of a mnemonic battleground /  Restitution of communal property and the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland /  Muranów as a ruin : layered memories in postwar Warsaw /  Stettin, Szczecin, and the "third space" : urban nostalgia in the German/Polish/Jewish borderlands /  Rediscovering the Jewish past in the Polish provinces : the socioeconomics of nostalgia /  Amnesia, nostalgia, and reconstruction : shifting modes of memory in Poland's Jewish spaces /  Jewish heritage, pluralism, and milieux de memoire : the case of Kraków's Kazimierz /  "Lodzermensch" and Litzmannstadt : making "virtually German" sites in Łódź after 1989 /  Stony survivors : images of Jewish space on the Polish landscape /  Reading the palimpsest /  A Jew, a cemetery, and a Polish village : a tale of the restoration of memory /  The Museum of the History of Polish Jews : a postwar, post-Holocaust, post-Communist story /  Epilogue : Jewish spaces and their future /  Erica Lehrer and Michael Meng --  Genevieve Zubrzycki --  Stanisław Tyszka --  Michael Meng --  Magdalena Waligórska --  Monika Murzyn-Kupisz --  Sławomir Kapralski --  Erica Lehrer --  Winson Chu --  Robert L. Cohn --  Konstanty Gebert --  Jonathan Webber --  Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett --  Diana Pinto. 
<br/><br/> 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 other remembered minorities, engaging in complex negotiations with local, regional, national, and international groups and interests. With its emphasis on spaces and built environments, this volume illuminates the role of the material world in the complex encounter with the Jewish past in contemporary Poland. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780253015068 9780253015006 9780253015037 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Memorialization--Poland.<br/>Collective memory and city planning--Poland.<br/>Jews--Social life and customs.--Poland<br/>Jews--Social conditions.--Poland
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS134  / .J495 2015