Although the reconciliation of Jewish and Polish memories of the
Holocaust is the central issue in contemporary Polish-Jewish
relations, this is the first attempt to examine these divisive
memories in a comprehensive way. Until 1989, Polish consciousness
of the Second World War subsumed the destruction of Polish Jewry
within a communist narrative of Polish martyrdom and heroism.
Post-war Jewish memory, by contrast, has been concerned mostly with
Jewish martyrdom and heroism (and barely acknowledged the plight of
Poles under German occupation). Since the 1980s, however, a
significant number of Jews and Poles have sought to identify a
common ground and have met with partial but increasing success,
notwithstanding the new debates that have emerged in recent years
concerning Polish behaviour during the Nazi genocide of the Jews
that Poles had ignored for half a century. This volume considers
these contentious issues from different angles. Among the topics
covered are Jewish memorial projects, both in Poland and beyond its
borders, the Polish approach to Holocaust memory under communist
rule, and post-communist efforts both to retrieve the Jewish
dimension to Polish wartime memory and to reckon with the dark side
of the Polish national past. An interview with acclaimed author
Henryk Grynberg touches on many of these issues from the personal
perspective of one who as a child survived the Holocaust hidden in
the Polish countryside, as do the three poems by Grynberg
reproduced here. The 'New Views' section features innovative
research in other areas of Polish-Jewish studies. A special section
is devoted to research concerning the New Synagogue in Poznan,
built in 1907, which is still standing only because the Nazis
turned it into a swimming-pool. CONTRIBUTORS: Natalia Aleksiun,
Assistant Professor in Eastern European Jewish History, Touo
College, New York; Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Head, Section for
Holocaust Studies, Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian
University, Krakow; curator, International Centre for Education
about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum;
Boaz Cohen, teacher in Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Shaanan and
Western Galilee Colleges, northern Israel; Judith R. Cohen,
Director of the Photographic Reference Collection, United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC; Gabriel N. Finder,
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures, University of Virginia; Rebecca Golbert, researcher;
Regina Grol, Professor of Comparative Literature, Empire State
College, State University of New York; Jonathan Huener, Associate
Professor of History, University of Vermont; Carol Herselle
Krinsky, Professor of Fine Arts, New York University; Marta
Kurkowska, Lecturer, Institute of History, Jagiellonian,
University, Krakow; Joanna B. Michlic, Assistant Professor,
Holocaust and Genocide Program, Richard Stockton College, Pomona,
New Jersey; Eva Plach, Assistant Professor of History, Wilfrid
Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada; Antony Polonsky, Albert
Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University and
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC;
Alexander V. Prusin, Associate Professor of History, New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro; Jan Schwarz, Senior
Lecturer, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago;
Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian and English, Chair of the
Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Co-Director, Jewish
Studies Program, Boston College; Michael C. Steinlauf, Professor of
Jewish History and Culture, Gratz College, Pennsylvania; Robert
Szuchta, History teacher, Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz High School,
Warsaw; Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Lecturer in Cultural Anthroplogy,
Warsaw University; Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology,
Collegium Civitas, Poland; Scott Ury, Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University; Bret Werb,
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC; Seth L.
Wolitz, Gale Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Comparative
Literature, University of Texas at Austin.
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