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Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia [Second edition] (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) - Tapa blanda

Webber, Jonathan

 
9781786940872: Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia [Second edition] (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
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ISBN 10: 1786940876 ISBN 13: 9781786940872
Editorial: Liverpool University Press, 2018

Sinopsis

The present-day traces of the Jewish past in Poland are complex. Jewish life lay in ruins after the Holocaust. Much evidence of ruin remains, but there are also widespread traces that bear witness to the elaborate Jewish culture that once flourished there, even in villages and small towns. One also sees places where Jews were murdered by the Germans in the war: not only in death camps and ghettos, but also in fields, forests, rivers, and cemeteries. After the war forty years of communism suppressed even the memory of the destroyed Jewish heritage. Today, by contrast, the historic Jewish culture of Poland is increasingly being memorialized, by local Poles as well as by foreign Jews. Synagogues and cemeteries are being renovated, monuments and museums are being set up. There are festivals of Jewish culture, hasidic pilgrims, and Jewish tourists; and local people who rescued Jews during the war are being honoured. In rediscovering the traces of memory one also finds clear signs of a local Jewish revival. This extensively revised second edition includes forty-five new photographs and updated explanatory texts. Together they suggest how to make sense of the past and discover its relevance for the present. This innovative, multi-layered book will appeal to everyone concerned with questions of history, memory, and identity.

Photographs by Chris Schwarz and Jason Francisco.

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Jonathan Webber is a British social anthropologist. He taught Jewish studies at the universities of Oxford and Birmingham before taking up a professorship at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He retired in 2016. He currently serves on the board of the Galicia Jewish Museum and is founding chair of the European Association for Holocaust Studies.

Chris Schwarz was a much-travelled British photojournalist who in Poland teamed up with Jonathan Webber to work on the Traces of Memory project and in 2004 opened the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków to showcase his photographs as a way of bringing the story of the Jewish heritage in Polish Galicia to Poland and to the world. He died in 2007.

Jason Francisco is an acclaimed American photographer, artist, essayist, and activist employed at Emory University, Atlanta, as an associate professor in photography studies in the Department of Film and Media Studies. Widely exhibited nationally and internationally, he is the author of several books and numerous photographic exhibits. His work is inspired by a deep concern for the Jewish heritage of eastern Europe.

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Editorial
Liverpool University Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1786940876
ISBN 13 
9781786940872
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
216
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