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The book aims to reconstruct and analyze the disputes over the
Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates in Poland between
1985 and 2012, from the discussions about Claude Lanzmann's Shoah,
Jan Blonski's essay The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto, Jan Tomasz
Gross' books Neighbours, Fear and Golden Harvest, to the
controversies surrounding the premiere of Wladyslaw Pasikowski's
The Aftermath. The analysis includes the course and dynamics of the
debates and, most importantly, the panorama of opinions revealed in
the process. It embraces the debates held across the entire
spectrum of the national press. The selection of press was not
limited by the level of circulation or a subjective opinion of
their value. The main intention was to reconstruct the widest
possible variety of opinions that were revealed during the debates.
Broad symbolic elites participated in the debates: people who
exercised control over publicly accessible knowledge, legitimacy of
beliefs and the content of public discourse.
This anthology presents the work of several authors from different
academic disciplines. Film and literature experts, sociologists,
historians and theatrologists analyse the Polish memory of the Nazi
and Stalinist occupations, which are key components of Polish
collective identity. Before the political turn of 1989, the memory
of World War II was strictly controlled by the state. The elements
of memory related to the Soviet occupation were eradicated, as well
as any other elements that did not fit the official narrative about
the war. Unblocking the hitherto limited public discourse resulted
in the process of filling the blank pages of history and the
development of different and frequently conflicting communities of
memory.
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