Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland

by Michael Meng

After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left in many German and Polish cities with prewar histories rich in the sights and sounds of Jewish life. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how have Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years?

In the postwar period, city officials swept away many sites, despite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674053036
• ISBN13: 9780674053038
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"