TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piotr Forecki
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3528
SN  - 9783653036756
TI  - Reconstructing Memory
T2  - The Holocaust in Polish Public Debates
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-03675-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046044
N2  - 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 Błoński’s essay The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto, Jan Tomasz Gross’ books Neighbours, Fear and Golden Harvest, to the controversies surrounding the premiere of Władysław Pasikowski’s The Aftermath. The analysis includes the course and dynamics of the debates and, most importantly, the panorama of opinions revealed in the process. It embraces the debates held across the entire spectrum of the national press. The selection of press was not limited by the level of circulation or a subjective opinion of their value. The main intention was to reconstruct the widest possible variety of opinions that were revealed during the debates. Broad symbolic elites participated in the debates: people who exercised control over publicly accessible knowledge, legitimacy of beliefs and the content of public discourse.
KW  - Collective memory, Anti-Semitism, Public discourse, collective forgetting, Auschwitz, Jedwabne, Birkenau
LA  - English
ER  -