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Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland (Hardcover)
Erica T Lehrer, Michael Meng; Contributions by Genevi eve Zubrzycki, Magdalena Waligorska, Slawomir Kapralski, …
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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."
This interdisciplinary volume looks at one of the central cultural
practices within the Jewish experience: translation. With
contributions from literary and cultural scholars, historians, and
scholars of religion, the book considers different aspects of
Jewish translation, starting from the early translations of the
Torah, to the modern Jewish experience of migration, state-building
and life in the Diaspora. The volume addresses the question of how
Jews have used translation to pursue different cultural and
political agendas, such as Jewish nationalism, the development of
Yiddish as a literary language, and the collection of Holocaust
testimonies. It also addresses how non-Jews have translated
elements of the Judaic tradition to create an image of the Other.
Covering a wide span of contexts, including religion, literature,
photography, music and folk practices, and featuring an interview
section with authors and translators, the volume will be of
interest not only to scholars of Jewish studies, translation and
cultural studies, but also a wider interested audience.
This interdisciplinary volume looks at one of the central cultural
practices within the Jewish experience: translation. With
contributions from literary and cultural scholars, historians, and
scholars of religion, the book considers different aspects of
Jewish translation, starting from the early translations of the
Torah, to the modern Jewish experience of migration, state-building
and life in the Diaspora. The volume addresses the question of how
Jews have used translation to pursue different cultural and
political agendas, such as Jewish nationalism, the development of
Yiddish as a literary language, and the collection of Holocaust
testimonies. It also addresses how non-Jews have translated
elements of the Judaic tradition to create an image of the Other.
Covering a wide span of contexts, including religion, literature,
photography, music and folk practices, and featuring an interview
section with authors and translators, the volume will be of
interest not only to scholars of Jewish studies, translation and
cultural studies, but also a wider interested audience.
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."
Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this
traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and
discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest and Prague. Played mostly by
non-Jews and for non-Jews, it was hailed as "fakelore," "Jewish
Disneyland" and even "cultural necrophilia." Klezmer's Afterlife is
the first book to investigate this fascinating music scene in
Central Europe, giving voice to the musicians, producers and
consumers of the resuscitated klezmer. Contesting common hypotheses
about the klezmer revival in Germany and Poland stemming merely
from feelings of guilt which emerged in the years following the
Holocaust, author Magdalena Waligorska investigates the
consequences of the klezmer boom on the people who staged it and
places where it occurred. Offering not only a documentation of the
klezmer revival in two of its European headquarters (Krakow and
Berlin), but also an analysis of the Jewish / non-Jewish encounter
it generates, Waligorska demonstrates how the klezmer revival
replicates and reinvents the image of the Jew in Polish and German
popular culture, how it becomes a soundtrack to Holocaust
commemoration and how it is used as a shining example of successful
cultural policy by local officials. Drawing on a variety of fields
including musicology, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, and
cultural studies, Klezmer's Afterlife will appeal to a wide range
scholars and students studying Jewish culture, and cultural
relations in post-Holocaust central Europe, as well as general
readers interested in klezmer music and music revivals more
generally.
No other symbol is as omnipresent in Poland as the cross. This
multilayered and contradictory icon features prominently in public
spaces and state institutions. It is anchored in the country's
visual history, inspires protest culture, and dominates urban and
rural landscapes. The cross recalls Poland's historic struggles for
independence and anti-Communist dissent, but it also encapsulates
the country's current position in Europe as a self-avowed bulwark
of Christianity and a champion of conservative values. It is both a
national symbol - defining the boundaries of Polishness in
opposition to a changing constellation of the country's Others -
and a key object of contestation in the creative arts and political
culture. Despite its long history, the cross has never been
systematically studied as a political symbol in its capacity to
mobilize for action and solidify power structures. Cross Purposes
is the first cultural history of the cross in modern Poland,
deconstructing this key symbol and exploring how it has been
deployed in different political battles.
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