On the Banality of Forgetting: Tracing the Memory of Jewish Culture in Poland (Studies in Jewish History and Memory)

✍ Scribed by Jacek Nowak, Slawomir Kapralski, Dariusz Niedzwiedzki

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 278
Edition: New
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Introduction
1 Researching collective memory
1.1 About the research project
1.2 Collective memory
1.3 Memory and identity
1.4 Forgetting
1.5 A responsibility to remember
2 Inspirations: the current state of affairs
2.1 The ambivalence of stereotype
2.2 The ethnography of cultural patterns
2.3 From cultural pattern to antisemitic discourse and practice
2.4 The critical analysis of Polish identity discourse
2.5 Anthropological psychoanalysis
2.6 Critical theory and the Polish soul
3 Memory and identity: on the meandering transmission of memory about Polish Jews and their culture
3.1 Perception of people as a mechanism of cognition and categorization
3.2 Individual and collective identities – a basic outline
3.3 Identity and memory
3.4 Identity and (non)memory
4 Pictures of the past: coexistence remembered and imagined
4.1 Types of neighborly life
4.2 City of (non)memory
4.3 Cultural memory inscribed in the urban landscape
5 The non-memory of the Holocaust
5.1 Dominant paradigms of interpretation
5.2 Silenced Holocaust
5.3 Cosmopolitan memory of the Holocaust: commemorated but not remembered
5.4 Concluding remarks
Conclusion
Literature

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