Reconstructing memory : : the Holocaust in Polish public debates / / Piotr Forecki.
The book aims to reconstruct and analyze the disputes over the Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates in Poland between 1985 and 2012, from the discussions about Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, Jan Blonski's essay The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto, Jan Tomasz Gross' books Neighbours...
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| Superior document: | Geschichte Erinnerung Politik ; Band 5 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Frankfurt am Main : : Peter Lang GmbH,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik ;
Bd. 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter I: Collective forgetting of the Holocaust in the People's Republic of Poland; 1. Collective memory and collective forgetting; 2. Genealogy of the need to forget; 3. From autonomy to repression; 4. A monument of martyrdom and the encyclopaedists case; 5. March exorcisms on the Holocaust; 6. Alibi for Oblivion; Chapter II: "Poor Poles" look at "Shoah": Recovery of the memory of the Holocaust in the country of witnesses; 1. Reconstructing the memory of Jews and the Holocaust in the last decade of the People's Republic of Poland
- 2. "Shoah" in Poland: identification of the areas of repression3. What Błoński said in Miłosz's words; Chapter III: The national debate on the crime in Jedwabne; 1. The antecedents and the structure of the debate; 2. Historikerstreit in Polish; 3. Jedwabne in the moral discourse; 4. The defence of the Polish innocence paradigm; 5. Disputes over reconciliation rituals; Chapter IV: "Fear" after Jedwabne.The debate that almost didn't happen; 1. "Fear" in Poland and in the eyes of historians; 2. Invalidating strategies; 3. "Fear" without fear; Epilogue; Bibliography; I. Sources
- II. Literature of the subject