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Polish-Jewish Relations and the January Uprising: The Polish Perspective

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 1986
This chapter focuses on Polish–Jewish relations and the January uprising. The memory of the pro-Polish orientation of the Jews in the January uprising remained alive throughout the 19th and in the early 20th centuries. The legend of patriotic ‘Poles of Mosaic faith’, which crystallized in the 1860s as a part of a broader romantic myth, gained a lasting
Małgorzata Melchior
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Foodways and Memory: Polish-Jewish Relations in a Post-Holocaust Town

Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Prace Etnograficzne
This article explores how the contemporary Polish inhabitants of Dąbrowa Białostocka remember town’s former Jewish community through the lens of foodways. By analyzing food-related practices, economic
Joanna Mroczkowska
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Bound by history: An interdisciplinary approach to Polish-Jewish relations

European Spatial Research and Policy, 2021
Andrzej Rykała
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Rethinking the Traumatic Memory of the Holocaust in Literature (Based on Monika Schneiderman’s Work “Fałszerze pieprzu. Historia rodzinna”)

Respectus Philologicus, 2021
The article analyzes the attempt to reconstruct the historical memory of the Holocaust in the novel by Polish writer Monika Schneiderman “Fałszerze pieprzu. Historia rodzinna”. The writer questions the issue of Polish-Jewish relations, the responsibility
Uliana Yevchuk
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Kim, czym, kiedy, gdzie i dlaczego są polscy Żydzi? Wyobrażanie, konstruowanie i zawłaszczanie Żydów polskich

Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2017
Who, what, when, where, and why is Polish Jewry? Envisioning, constructing, and possessing Polish Jewry This article examines the different ways that various communities of scholars imagine, research and teach about “Polish Jewry.” Focusing on ...
Scott Ury
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Dis/Possessing the Polish Past in Marcin Wrona’s Demon

Humanities, 2020
The article examines how Marcin Wrona’s Demon (2015) reworks the Jewish myth of a dybbuk in order to discuss how and to what extent a spectral haunting may disrupt acts of collective forgetting, which are in turn fueled by repression, repudiation, and ...
Agnieszka Kotwasińska
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Zagłada sztetl Grice

Zagłada Żydów, 2007
This article discusses the history of the annihilation of sztetl Gritze, a Polish-Jewish town in Central Poland. In the first part of the article, the author describes the tragedy of the Jewish inhabitants of this small town: the creation and the ...
Karolina Panz
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Framing Polish-Jewish Relations Through Shakespeare in Post-war and Contemporary Polish Theatre

Multicultural Shakespeare, 2023
The paper aims to analyse how the staging of Shakespeare’s texts in post-war and contemporary Poland reflected the indifferent and hostile attitudes of Poles towards Jews, particularly during the Holocaust, and the distortions and gaps in the collective ...
Tomasz Kowalski
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The Golden Mean Principle. A Handful of Comments on the Currently Dominant Discourse on ‘Polish-Jewish Relations’

Zagłada Żydów, 2017
The article attempts to deconstruct the dominant Polish discourse regarding the ‘Polish-Jewish relations’. Its central ϐigures are: the logic of the golden mean as a tool to reach historical truth, symmetrisation of Polish and Jewish wrongs and faults ...
Piotr Forecki, Anna Zawadzka
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The Holocaust and Polish-Jewish Relations in Sociological Studies

Zagłada Żydów, 2008
The past can be described in different ways by historians and sociologists. They differ in their attitudes toward sources for their studies, and in terms of research sensitivity, which directs their analyses towards given aspects of the past.
Małgorzata Melchior
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