Pole/Jew

John J. Bukowczyk is a professor emeritus of history at Wayne State University and the author of numerous articles and books on immigration and ethnic history. He is the series editor for the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series from Ohio University Press and editor of Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019.Halina Filipowicz is a professor emerita in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her main areas of research are Polish and Polish-Jewish literature, modern intellectual history, and gender studies. In 2020, she became the first woman to serve as editor in chief of The Polish Review.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsGuide to PronunciationIntroductionJOHN J. BUKOWCZYKPART I. IS THERE A HISTORY OF POLAND BEYOND THE HOLOCAUST? 1. On Forgetting, Displacement, and Historical Error in Polish HistoryPATRICE M. DABROWSKI 2. There Is a Polish-Jewish History beyond the HolocaustDARIUSZ STOLA 3. Poles and Jews in the Late Nineteenth-Century Russian EmpireAn Inevitable Clash?M. B. B. BISKUPSKI 4. The Impact of Antisemitism on Political Cleavages in Twentieth-Century PolandWIKTOR MARZEC 5. Away from the Holocaust through the ColoniesReassessing the History of Modern PolandPIOTR PUCHALSKI 6. Whose Holocaust? Whose Poland?ROBERT BLOBAUM7. In the Shadow of, or Buried under, the Holocaust?On the Paradox of Presence and Nonpresence of Jewish History and Culture in Contemporary Polish DiscourseKAMIL KIJEKPART II. IS THERE A POLISH LITERATURE BEYOND THE HOLOCAUST?8. Strategies of Reconstructing the Jewish World in Polish Literature after 1989ALINA MOLISAK9. Identity and Postmemory in Polish Jewish Writing of the Twenty-First Century within Its Holocaust LegacyKATARZYNA ZECHENTER10. Bystanders or (Passive) Witnesses?Unnoticed Perspectives on the Holocaust and Polish LiteratureBOŻENA KARWOWSKA11. Second-and Third-Generation Polish Writers and the HolocaustSŁAWOMIR JACEK ŻUREK12. Haunted CinemaHolocaust Tropes in Polish Thriller and Horror Films of the 2010sAGNIESZKA JEŻYK13. Beyond BeyondingEnvisioning a New History of Holocaust Literature in PolandHALINA FILIPOWICZPART III. JEWISH/POLISH AND POLISH IDENTITIES BEYOND THE HOLOCAUST14. Betwixt Jerusalem and New YorkJakub Apenszlak’s Attempt at Fostering Polish-Jewish Rapprochement in the Midst of World War IIELŻBIETA KOSSEWSKA15. Invented Identity Pole after the HolocaustSTANISŁAW OBIREK16. National Identity, Racial Imaginary, and a Productive Force of a “Communist Jew”KATE KORYCKI17. “New Jews” and the Reconstruction of IdentityGENEVIÈVE ZUBRZYCKI18. Living as a Jew in Contemporary PolandSTANISŁAW KRAJEWSKI19. As If I Were Some Stranger Jewishness as a SplitADAM LIPSZYC20. Between a Polish Shiksa and a Jewish Woman Ambiguous Identities in Eva Mekler’s NovelsGRAŻYNA J. KOZACZKA21. The Polish QuestionJOHN J. BUKOWCZYKPART IV. IS THERE A FUTURE FOR POLISH/JEWISH RELATIONS BEYOND THE HOLOCAUST? 22. Explaining Antisemitic Violence The Perils of UnderstandingBRIAN PORTER-SZŰCS23. On the Origins of the Jewish Culture Festival in KrakόwConversations with Janusz MakuchJOSHUA D. ZIMMERMAN24. עכאָס EchaBENJAMIN PALOFF25. Toward a New Life in an Old HouseROMA SENDYKA26. “The Conquest of History?”Toward a Usable Past in PolandANTONY POLONSKYPostscriptHALINA FILIPOWICZContributorsIndex