Description
Book SynopsisThe book adds new studies of memories and interactions between Jews and non-Jews to the historical and cultural research on this topic. It gathers in one volume the results of work by scholars from several countries, while the topics of the articles cover various disciplines: history, sociology, psychology, literary and language studies. The specific themes refer to the cultures and interactions with non-Jews in places such as Kiev, Vienna, Ireland, Springfield, Sosúa as well as reflect upon interactions in literary texts by Czesław Milosz and other Polish writers, some contemporary Jewish-American novelists and South American writers. Finally there are texts referring to the experience of the Holocaust and the post-Holocaust trauma as well as German-Israeli and Polish-Jewish relations and heritage.
Table of ContentsContents: Victoria Khiterer:
Kiev Jews in the Early Twentieth Century: National Identity and Culture – Klaus Hödl:
Viennese Culture in 1900: Bridging the Divide – Natalie Wynn:
Ireland’s Jewish Identity Crisis – Mara W. Cohen Ioannides:
The Community Memory of Springfield, Missouri Suppresses the City’s Jewish Past – Anna Maria Karczewska:
Jewminicanos and the Sosúa Settlement
– Hanna Komorowska:
Stereotyping Through Silence and Speech. Cross-Cultural Differences in Conversational Styles of Poles and Jews as Presented in Polish Literature – Annette Aronowicz:
No Longer Other? Jews in Czesław Miłosz’s Landscape – Magdalena Szkwarek:
Manifestations of Jewishness in Literature of Latin America – Dorota Mihułka:
Temptations of Non-Jewish Lifestyle in Allegra Goodman’s and Pearl Abraham’s Novels – Jacek Partyka:
«False Veins Under the Skin»: Does Edward Lewis Wallant’s
The Pawnbroker Fail as Holocaust Fiction? – Maria Ferenc Piotrowska:
The Feelings of Survivors of the First Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto – Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk:
The Mother-Daughter Dyad in Bożena Keff’s
On Mother and the Fatherland – Justyna Sierakowska:
A Quest for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland: Agata Tuszyńska’s Family History – Na’ama Sheffi:
Normalization through Literature: Translations from German into Hebrew during the 1970s – Yechiel Weizman:
The Sacralization and Secularization of the Jewish Cemeteries in Poland.
