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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779749103321

Autore

Lehrer Erica T

Titolo

Jewish Poland revisited [[electronic resource] ] : heritage tourism in unquiet places / / Erica T. Lehrer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-253-00886-7

0-253-00893-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

New anthropologies of Europe

Disciplina

305.8924

Soggetti

Jews - Poland

Jewish diaspora

Jews - History

Holocaust memorial tours - Poland

Collective memory - Poland

Kazimierz (Kraków, Poland)

Poland Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue : scene of arrival -- Introduction : Poles and Jews : significant others -- Making sense of place : history, mythology, authenticity -- The mission : mass Jewish Holocaust pilgrimage -- The quest : scratching the heart -- Shabbos goyim : Polish stewards of Jewish spaces -- Traveling tschotschkes and "post-Jewish" culture -- Jewish like an adjective : expanding the collective self -- Conclusion : toward a Polish-Jewish milieu de memoire.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn about their own Polish roots and connect with contemporary Poles. For their part, a growing number of Poles are fascinated by all things Jewish. Erica T. Lehrer explores the intersection of Polish and Jewish memory projects in the historically Jewish neighborhood of Kazimierz in Krakow. Her own journey becomes part of the story as she demonstrates that Jews and Poles use spaces, institutions, interpersonal exchanges, and cultural representations