TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacek Nowak
AU  - Sławomir Kapralski
AU  - Dariusz Niedźwiedzki
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-1975
SN  - 9783631762080
TI  - On the Banality of Forgetting
T2  - Tracing the Memory of Jewish Culture in Poland
DO  - 10.3726/b14412
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055935
N2  - Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, Poland’s approach to its murdered Jewish community still remains a highly debated and often politicized issue. This book addresses this contested topic in an interdisciplinary way, integrating the approaches of memory studies, social anthropology and sociology. The authors revisited the material from the fieldwork carried out 25 years ago and compared it with the interviews collected recently with the younger generation of Poles. The result is a fascinating account of the process of collective forgetting that offers not only an original insight into Christian-Jewish relations after the Holocaust, but also a significant contribution to the reflection on the social mechanisms of remembrance and identity-building.
KW  - Collective Memory, Forgetting, Polish-Jewish relations, Transmission of memory, The Holocaust, Sites of memory
LA  - English
ER  -