Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 20: Making Holocaust Memory

by Gabriel N. Finder and Jan Schwarz

Although the reconciliation of Jewish and Polish memories of the Holocaust is the central issue in contemporary Polish-Jewish relations, this is the first attempt to examine these divisive memories in a comprehensive way. Until 1989, Polish consciousness of the Second World War subsumed the destruction of Polish Jewry within a communist narrative of Polish martyrdom and heroism. Post-war Jewish memory, by contrast, has been concerned mostly with Jewish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904113060
• ISBN13: 9781904113065
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"