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Author Gryta, Janek

Title Jews and Poles in the Holocaust Exhibitions of Kraków, 1980-2013 : Between Urban Past and National Memory / Janek Gryta
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages)
Summary This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a watershed moment. By examining the ways in which the Holocaust has been exhibited in Kraków, it investigates the impact local memory work has had on Polish collective memory and problematizes the importance of the fall of Communism for memory work. Using the Polish case study, it contributes to international debates on the nature of urban memory. It brings to the fore the role of mid-ranking governmental and municipal activists for local remembrance, investigates the relationship between the form and the content of the exhibitions, and highlights the importance of authenticity and emotional evocations for Holocaust remembrance. In particular, it focuses on the emergence of cosmopolitan memory of the Holocaust, a process with local, Kraków, sources
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 23, 2020)
Subject Holocaust memorials -- Poland -- Kraków
Jews -- Poland -- Kraków -- Social life and customs
Holocaust memorials
Jews -- Social life and customs
Poland -- Kraków
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030389796
3030389790