Natalia Aleksiun

Despite the centrality of family in both Jewish and Romani cultures, this is the first scholarly work to focus on the importance of the family in experiences of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Scholars from the US, Israel, and across Europe have contributed new research from the family perspective.

This book highlights the modernity of Polish Jewish culture through its literature, poetry, film, cabaret, theater, architecture, the visual arts, and music in urban centers large and small. The contributors expertly reassert the belonging of Jews in Polish lands and showcase the multivalent texture of Polish Jewish cultural production before World War II.
 

This collection of essays, representing three generations of Polish and Jewish scholars, is the first attempt since the fall of Communism to reassess the existing historiography of Polish-Jewish relations just before, during, and after the Second World War. In the spirit of detached scholarly inquiry, these essays fearlessly challenge commonly held views on both sides of the debates.