The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism Polish-Jewish Relations Today /

• Main Author: Holc, Janine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
• Subjects: World politics.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Europe-Politics and government.; Historiography.; World War, 1939-1945.; Judaism and culture.; Political History.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; European Politics.; Memory Studies.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Jewish Cultural Studies.

This book analyses four case studies of Holocaust memory activism in Poland, contextualized within recent debates about Polish-Jewish relations and approached through a theoretical framework informed by critical theory. Three cases are advocacy groups, each located in a different region of Poland-Lu...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Memory Activism Challenging the Reconciliation Paradigm
• 3. Memory Activism in a Historic Borderland
• 4. Memory Activism in a Porous Field
• 5. The State as Context and Competitor in Memory Politics
• 6. Conclusion: Memory Beyond History.