Reconstructing Memory : The Holocaust in Polish Public Debates
Forecki, Piotr
Reconstructing Memory : The Holocaust in Polish Public Debates - Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2013 - 1 electronic resource (287 p.)
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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.
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English
978-3-653-03675-6 9783653036756 9783631623657
10.3726/978-3-653-03675-6 doi
21st century history: from c 2000 -
Social & cultural history
Philosophy
Sociology
Political science & theory
Anti-Semitism Auschwitz Birkenau collective forgetting Collective memory Debates Forecki Holocaust Jedwabne Memory Polish Public Public discourse Reconstructing
Reconstructing Memory : The Holocaust in Polish Public Debates - Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2013 - 1 electronic resource (287 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
978-3-653-03675-6 9783653036756 9783631623657
10.3726/978-3-653-03675-6 doi
21st century history: from c 2000 -
Social & cultural history
Philosophy
Sociology
Political science & theory
Anti-Semitism Auschwitz Birkenau collective forgetting Collective memory Debates Forecki Holocaust Jedwabne Memory Polish Public Public discourse Reconstructing