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Book SynopsisThe contributions in this volume reflect discussions and controversies during the Princeton University Conference on Polish-Jewish Studies (April 18–19, 2015). The debates examined the politics of history in Poland, as well as the scholarly and pedagogical need to move beyond national and diasporic narratives in researching and teaching Polish-Jewish subjects. They focused on the role and meaning of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Table of ContentsContents: Geneviève Zubrzycki: Conference Report – Jan Grabowski: The Holocaust as a Polish Problem – Jan T. Gross: Jews as a Polish Problem; and Why Not - as a Part of Polish History? – Irena Grudzińska-Gross: Polishness in Practice – Joanna Tokarska-Bakir: Polin: «Ultimate Lost Object» – Konrad Matyjaszek: Wall and Window: the Rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto as the Narrative Space of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews – Piotr Forecki/Anna Zawadzka: The Rule of the Golden Mean – Elżbieta Janicka: The Embassy of Poland in Poland: The Polin Myth in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews as Narrative Pattern and Model of Minority-Majority Relations – Geneviève Zubrzycki: Problematizing the «Jewish Turn» – Karen Underhill: Toward a Diasporic Poland/Polin: Zeitlin, Sutzkever, and the Ghost Dance with Jewish Poland – Erica Lehrer: Public Pedagogy and Transnational, Transcultural Museums.
