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15 produkter
Their Childhood and the Holocaust
A Child’s Perspective in Polish Documentary and Autobiographical Literature
Inbunden, 2015
887 kr
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Children have a specific perception of the Holocaust: it did not destroy their earlier world view, but became the field of first experiences. This book focuses on the traumatic dimension of the Holocaust and how it is expressed (or left unexpressed) in children’s diaries. «Here and Now» under the …
Desert Island, Burrow, Grave
Wartime Hiding Places of Jews in Occupied Poland
Av Marta Cobel-Tokarska, Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich
Inbunden, 2018
725 kr
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This book is an anthropological essay which aims to capture the elusive phenomenon of hideouts employed by Jews persecuted during the Second World War. Oscillating between life and death, the Jewish hideouts were a space of the most diverse and extremely complex human relations – a specific realm …
Social Networks and the Jewish Migration between Poland and Palestine, 1924–1928
Inbunden, 2016
728 kr
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This book analyses the role of social networks in the process of migration. Based on stories of Polish Jews who migrated between Poland and Palestine in the 1920s, the author presents all stages of the journey and shows how networks of friends and families spread in different countries contributed …
Freedom of Lights: Edmond Jabès and Jewish Philosophy of Modernity
Av Przemysław Tacik, Lucyna Aleksandrovicz-Pedich
Inbunden, 2019
790 kr
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Edmond Jabès was one of the most intriguing Jewish thinkers of the 20th century – a poet for the public and a Kabbalist for those who read his work more closely. This book turns his writings into a ground-breaking philosophical achievement: thinking which is manifestly indebted to the Kabbalah, but …
On the Banality of Forgetting
Tracing the Memory of Jewish Culture in Poland
Av Jacek Nowak, Sławomir Kapralski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
848 kr
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Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, Poland’s approach to its murdered Jewish community still remains a highly debated and often politicized issue. This book addresses this contested topic in an interdisciplinary way, integrating the approaches of memory studies, social anthropology and …
In the Light of Vienna
Jews in Lviv - between Tradition and Modernisation (1867-1914)
Av Łukasz Sroka, Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich
Inbunden, 2018
830 kr
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The book constitutes an innovative study devoted to modernisation processes among Lviv Jews during the period of Galicia’s autonomy (1867-1914). It takes into account Vienna’s influence on various areas of life. The author reconstructs a triad which is quite surprising: Vienna was at its top, Lviv …
Attitude of Christian Churches in the Kingdom of Poland toward Jews in 1855–1915
Av Krzysztof Lewalski, Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich
Inbunden, 2020
827 kr
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The book is the first attempt in historiography to present the attitude of Christian Churches (Catholic, Evangelical, and Orthodox) in the Kingdom of Poland towards Jews at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The work is based on a rich and varied source base, it presents many new facts and …
Citizen of Yiddishland
Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist Milieu in Poland
Av Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
523 kr
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This pioneering study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish problem but also to save the Yiddish culture. Biography of the central protagonist of the book, a …
Reading (in) the Holocaust
Practices of Postmemory in Recent Polish Literature for Children and Young Adults.
Inbunden, 2020
843 kr
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The book deals with the issue of the Holocaust in the Polish literature for children and adolescents. Drawing upon some of the leading Polish authors of the twentieth and the twentieth-first centuries, the author reveals the historical, ideological, and cultural entanglement of their works. The …
Jewish Warsaw – Jewish Berlin
Literary Portrayal of the City in the First Half of the 20th Century
Av Alina Molisak, Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich
Inbunden, 2021
790 kr
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This book is a reflection on the Jewish presence in two European capitals, Warsaw and Berlin, in the first half of the 20th century. It was inspired by the works of Polish-Jewish, Yiddish and German-Jewish authors, as well as by the connections between urban spaces and the formation of different …
Small Numbers, Big Presence: Jews in Poland after World War II
Inbunden, 2024
676 kr
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In this path-breaking book, he reflects on the evolution of Polish Jewry in these years against the background of its enormous contribution to Jewish religious traditions and its tragic fate in the Holocaust. A Jewish community, ‘small in numbers’ but with a ‘big presence’, continues to function in …
Toward Postmemory
Second Generation Holocaust Survivors in Contemporary Polish Memoir Literature
Av Anna Kuchta
Inbunden, 2026
676 kr
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The book thoroughly explores postmemory in the Polish historical and political contexts to reveal the multidimensional identity strategies of the second generation of Jews in Poland after the Holocaust, also called the "generation after". Kuchta provides a captivating reflection by focusing on …
Polish-Jewish Borderlands
Topographies and Texts
Inbunden, 2026
735 kr
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The book presents Polish-Jewish cultural contacts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from an interdisciplinary perspective. Using methods from Jewish, cultural, and literary studies, Prokop-Janiec takes a topographical approach by focusing on selected places, institutional spaces, and texts …
Contemporary International Literature and the Shoah
Av Sławomir Jacek Żurek, Sarah Minslow
Inbunden, 2025
735 kr
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The Holocaust was a pan-continental event with a global impact: the evolution of its memory is, similarly, both pan-European and globally wider. This collection, stemming from a discipline-leading international project, explores the growth and change of Holocaust literature in Dutch, Polish, …
Rise and Fall of the Bund in Poland. 1944-1949
Av Martyna Rusiniak-Karwat, Slawomir Jacek Żurek
Inbunden, 2025
669 kr
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The book presents the activity of the Jewish Labour Bund in the territory of post-Yalta Poland in the years 1944-1949. The work focuses on the “last chapter” of the party’s activity in Poland. It touches upon issues concerning the attempts to modify/re-evaluate the political agenda of the party in …
