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The present-day traces of the Jewish past in Poland are complex.
Jewish life lay in ruins after the Holocaust. Much evidence of ruin
remains, but there are also widespread traces that bear witness to
the elaborate Jewish culture that once flourished there, even in
villages and small towns. One also sees places where Jews were
murdered by the Germans in the war: not only in death camps and
ghettos, but also in fields, forests, rivers, and cemeteries. After
the war forty years of communism suppressed even the memory of the
destroyed Jewish heritage. Today, by contrast, the historic Jewish
culture of Poland is increasingly being memorialized, by local
Poles as well as by foreign Jews. Synagogues and cemeteries are
being renovated, monuments and museums are being set up. There are
festivals of Jewish culture, hasidic pilgrims, and Jewish tourists;
and local people who rescued Jews during the war are being
honoured. In rediscovering the traces of memory one also finds
clear signs of a local Jewish revival. This extensively revised
second edition includes forty-five new photographs and updated
explanatory texts. Together they suggest how to make sense of the
past and discover its relevance for the present. This innovative,
multi-layered book will appeal to everyone concerned with questions
of history, memory, and identity.
Since the Holocaust, traces of memory are virtually all that
remain of more than 800 years of Jewish life in Poland. Yet some of
that past can still be found if one knows how and where to look. In
this remarkable album, 74 stunning color photographs bear witness
to the great Jewish civilization that once flourished here. The
images record the sites of Jewish life and death, and the ways in
which Jewish culture is being remembered today. Captions and
detailed notes explain and contextualize the photographs. An
invaluable sourcebook on the Jewish heritage of Polish Galicia,
this album also illustrates how photographs can help us understand
the past and discover its relevance for the present.
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