Biography and Memory : : The Generational Experience of the Shoah Survivors / / Kaja Kaźmierska.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kaźmierska, Kaja,
• MitwirkendeR: Maciejczyk, Katarzyna,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Poland
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)

Biography and Memory discusses the return of Jews to their places of birth in Poland. A biographical urge to come full circle often leads to symbolic journeys to one’s roots, but in the case of Shoah survivors, such journeys are unexpected, defying the generational definition of their biography, which mostly draws a demarcation line between wartime trauma and a new post- Holocaust life. Analyzed biographical stories collected from Israeli survivors indicate that such returns may be considered the last chapters of their wartime experiences. Survivors’ biographies are examined in the context of both Jewish and Polish memory. This book will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and to general readers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword to the English Edition and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Biographical Dimension of the Return to the Birthplace -- Chapter II. Social Frames of Memory -- Chapter III. Polish Memory and the Polish-Jewish Relations -- Chapter IV. Jewish Memory -- Chapter V. The Voyage-Return in Narrative Interviews with the Israeli -- Chapter VI. The Return in Biographical Experience: Case Analyses -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index