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Author Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Jolanta, author.

Title Islands of memory : the landscape of the (non)memory of the Holocaust in Polish education from 1989 to 2015 / Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
Edition First edition
Published Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (442 pages)
Contents Intro -- Editorial -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Historyand expectationsof the project -- Part 1. Memory -- 1.1. Introductory remarks -- 1.2. Trauma -- 1.3. Culture of memory. Memory of the Holocaust -- 1.4. The Jewish past in Poland and how it has beenremembered or forgotten -- 1.5. Struggles with memory of the Holocaustin Poland and beyond -- 1.6. Paradigms of Polish memory of the Holocaust -- 1.7. New historiography and memory work in Poland -- 1.8. The Jew as the Other -- 1.9. Antisemitism as a historical fact, a concept, a topic of research and a variable
Part 2. Empirical study of attitudes. Quantitative part -- 2.1. Introductory remarks -- 2.2. Overview of research paradigms -- 2.3. Theoretical generalizations tested -- 2.4. The methodology of the study -- research design, questions, methods and organization -- 2.5. Nationwide survey -- 2.6. Survey results -- 2.7. Conclusions of the quantitative part of the empirical studieverification ofionof hypotheses and main findings -- Part 3. Actions. Qualitative part -- 3.1. The topographymemory ofmemoryof the Holocaust in post-1989 Poland -- 3.2. Qualitative study -- 3.3. Case studies
3.4. Discussion and closibase donrks basedon tobservation oft observationof the selected projects -- 3.5. Individual interviews with teachers, leaders, experts and students of experimental cdiscussion andther discussionand conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography
Summary This book examines memory of the Holocaust among young Poles, including the attitudes toward Jews and the Holocaust in comparative context. It focuses on grassroots action, often initiated by local civil society organizations or individual teachers or students
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 20, 2021)
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching -- Poland
Jews -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
Memory -- Social aspects -- Poland
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching
Study skills
Poland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9788323371892
832337189X