On the Banality of Forgetting

Tracing the Memory of Jewish Culture in Poland

Omschrijving

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 sociology. The authors revisited the material from the fieldwork carried out 25 years ago and compared it with the interviews collected recently with the younger generation of Poles. The result is a fascinating account of the process of collective forgetting that offers not only an original insight into Christian-Jewish relations after the Holocaust, but also a significant contribution to the reflection on the social mechanisms of remembrance and identity-building. The book addresses the controversial issue of how Poland remembers its murdered Jewish community. The authors collected rich ethnographic material on the basis of which they present an innovative interpretation of the collective forgetting that bears importance not only to the study of Jewish-Christian relations, but also to the memory studies.
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Schrijver
Nowak, Jacek, Kapralski, SÅ‚awomir, Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz
Titel
On the Banality of Forgetting
Uitgever
Peter Lang AG
Jaar
2018
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
276
Gewicht
458 gr
EAN
9783631741429
Afmetingen
216 x 151 x 25 mm
Bindwijze
Hardback

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