Holocaust memory in polish scholarship

Commemoration of the Holocaust, scholar Halina Taborska recently argued, has entered a new stage in Poland. For more than a decade after communist rule ended in 1989, politicized slogans remained on many Holocaust memorials and other forms of commemoration, remnants of the period “when politicians a...

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Subtitles:Review Essays
Main Author: Auerbach, Karen (Author)
Contributors: Majewski, Tomasz 1971-2012 (Bibliographic antecedent) ; Rusiniak, Martyna 1980- (Bibliographic antecedent) ; Wóycicka, Zofia 1976- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2011]
In: AJS review
Year: 2011, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 137-150
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jews / Remembrance / Poles / Politics
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:Commemoration of the Holocaust, scholar Halina Taborska recently argued, has entered a new stage in Poland. For more than a decade after communist rule ended in 1989, politicized slogans remained on many Holocaust memorials and other forms of commemoration, remnants of the period “when politicians and ideologues, the ruling powers and the ruled, artists and administrators accepted a definitive version of events as true and obligatory,” she wrote in a collection of articles. Only in recent years has Holocaust commemoration sought to grapple with the “falsified semantic expressions” of Holocaust memory and to depoliticize commemoration in the public sphere.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009411000079