Pole/Jew : history, literature, identity, future / edited by John J. Bukowczyk and Halina Filipowicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bukowczyk, John J., 1950- editor.

Filipowicz, Halina, editor.

Series:

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series

Polish and Polish-American studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--History.

Jews.

Jews--Poland--Identity.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Polish people--Ethnic identity.

Polish people.

Polish literature.

Poland--Ethnic relations--History.

Poland.

Physical Description:

xvii, 383 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Pole/Jew brings together a group of scholars-about half of them Jewish, about half of them ethnic Poles-from the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Canada and enlists their diverse methodological and generational perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond entrenched and reductive positions. At the core of the volume are the following questions: -What impact has the Holocaust had on Polish history and Polish literature? -How has the Holocaust affected Polish-Jewish-and Polish-identity? -What future is there for relations between Poland's small Jewish minority and the country's overwhelming ethnic Polish majority? Between Poland and Israel? Between Jews of the diaspora and ethnic Poles abroad? -Which research areas have yet to be addressed or revisited and reexamined? -Are there ways to move beyond the reductive notion of 1989 (i.e., the fall of the communist regime in Poland) as wall and fulcrum? By addressing these compelling questions, this volume offers fresh perspectives and encourages a nuanced understanding of Polish-Jewish relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / John J. Bukowczyk

Part 1. Is there a History of Poland Beyond the Holocaust?

On forgetting, displacement, and historical error in Polish history / Patrice M. Dabrowski

There is a Polish-Jewish history beyond the Holocaust / Dariusz Stola

Poles and Jews in the late nineteenth-century Russian Empire: an inevitable clash / M.B.B. Biskupski

The impact of antisemitism on political cleavages in twentieth-century Poland / Wiktor Marzec

Away from the Holocaust through the colonies: reassessing the history of modern Poland / Piotr Puchalski

Whose Holocaust? Whose Poland? / Robert Blobaum

In the shadow of, or buried under, the Holocaust: on the paradox of presence and nonpresence of Jewish history and culture in contemporary Polish discourse / Kamil Kijek

Part 2. Is there a Polish literature beyond the Holocaust?

Strategies of reconstructing the Jewish world in Polish literature after 1989 / Alina Molisak

Identity and postmemory in Polish Jewish writing of the twenty-first century within its Holocaust legacy / Katarzyna Zechenter

Bystanders or (passive) witnesses?: unnoticed perspectives on the Holocaust and Polish literature / Bo|ena Karwowska

Second- and third-generation Polish writers and the Holocaust / Sławomir Jacek {urek

Haunted cinema: Holocaust tropes in the Polish thriller and horror films of the 2010s / Agnieszka Je|yk

Beyond beyonding: envisioning a new history of Holocaust literature in Poland / Halina Filipowicz

Part 2. Jewish/Polish and Polish identities byond the Holocaust

Betwixt Jerusalem and New York: Jakub Apenszlak's attempt at fostering Polish-Jewish rapprochement / El|bieta Kossewska

Invented history: Pole after the Holocaust / Stanisław Obirek

National identity, racial imaginary, and a productive force of a "communist Jew" / Kate Korycki

"New Jews" and the reconstruction of identity / Genevïve Zubrzycki

Living as a Jew in contemporary Poland / Stanisław Krajewski

As if I were some stranger: Jewishness as a split / Adam Lipszyc

Between a Polish Shiksa and a Jewish woman: ambiguous identities in Eva Mekler's novels / Gra|yna J. Kozaczka

The Polish question / John J. Bukowczyk

Part 4. Is there a future for Polish/Jewish relations beyond the Holocaust?

Explaining antisemitic violence: the perils of understanding / Brian Porter Szqcs

On the origins of the Jewish culture festival in Krak̤w: conversations with Janusz Makuch / Joshua D. Zimmerman

Echa / Benjamin Paloff

Toward a new life in old house / Roma Sendyka

"The conquest of history": toward a usable past in Poland / Antony Polonsky

Postscript / Halina Filipowicz.

Is there a History of Poland Beyond the Holocaust?

Is There a Polish Literature Beyond the Holocaust?

Jewish/Polish and Polish Identit(ies) Beyond the Holocaust

Is There a Future for Polish/Jewish Relations Beyond the Holocaust?

Notes:

Collection of essays by Patrice Dabrowski and 25 others.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821426487

0821426486

OCLC:

1514657424