This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.
This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.
While the first three parts of the book focus on "text," the broad nature of Polish Jewish history surrounding the Holocaust, the last section focuses on subtext, the personal and professional experiences of scholars who have devoted years to researching and writing about Polish Jewry. The beginning sections present a variety of case studies on wartime and postwar Polish Jews, drawing on new research and local history. The final part is a reflection on family memory, where scholars discuss their connections to Holocaust history and its impact on their current lives and research. Viewed together, the combination sheds light on both history and historians: the challenges of dealing with the history of an unparalleled cataclysm, and the personal questions and dilemmas that its study raises for many of the historians engaged in it.
Holocaust History, Holocaust Memory is a unique resource that will appeal to students and scholars studying the Second World War, Jewish and Polish history, and family history.
Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction
1. Jews in Twentieth
Century Poland Part 2: Studies of Wartime
2. The Capacity of the Tzadik in
the Late 1930s in Poland According to the "Akedat Yitzchak" Book
3. I'm
Being Punished Despite My Complete Innocence!: Soviet Secret Police (NKVD)
Meets Holocaust Refugees from the German-Occupied Part of Poland, 1939-1941
4. "Maybe the Afterlife Will Be Better"- Letters from Wodawa County During
the Holocaust
5. Jews From Markowa: Life, War, and the Struggle to Survive
6.
Josef Bürger the Executioner of the Jews in uków
7. Jewish Initiatives of
Rescue by Means of Labor and Jewish Self-Help in the Face of Aktion Reinhardt
8. February 1943 in the Biaystok Ghetto: The Writings of Mordechai
Tenenbaum-Tamaroff Part 3: Postwar Jewish Life, Historiography,
Commemoration, and Representation
9. Holocaust Monuments in Poland: Forms,
Meanings, and Messages
10. Passports From Switzerland: How History Becomes
Politics
11. My Love Affair With Jewish History: From Small Town to Source of
Identity
12. In Search of the Victims Agenda: German Scholarship on Polish
Jews During the Holocaust
13. March 1968 - The Last
Chapter in the History of
Polish Jews - Reflection and Representation of the Events of March 1968 in
Polish Films
14. Two Jewish Traitors from Ostrowiec: The Zeyfman Brothers
15.
Windows of Memory. The Jewish Community of Bochnia Exhibition Organised
by the Stanisaw Fischer Museum in Bochnia
16. 21st Century Polish Literature
and the Shoah: The Struggle for the Memory Part 4: Family History, Family
Memory
17. In Search of the Lost Tydors: An Exercise in Holocaust
Documentation
18. "My Parents Left Poland, but Poland Didn't Leave Them":
History and Personal Memory
19. Dis-location: Past - Present Future in a
Changing Silesian Town
20. My Jewish Kraków
21. Following My Roots: Building
the Unknown Puzzle of My Family Roots in Poland
22. Can I Be a Good Historian?
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She has written and edited numerous publications about gender, Holocaust, memory, commemoration, Israel, and descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Lea Ganor is the founder and Director of the Mashmaut Center in Kiryat Motzkin and Senior Scholar/Coordinator of the Poland Forum, Bar-Ilan University. Her research focuses on the IDF and the Holocaust. She received the Night Cross Order of Merit from the president of Poland for fostering Polish-Israeli dialogue.
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