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Biography and memory : the generational experience of the Shoah survivors / Kaja Kaz̆mierska, translated from Polish by Katarzyna Maciejczyk

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Kaźmierska, Kaja, 1964-
Uniform Title
Biografia i pamięć. English
Published
Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (393 pages).
Additional Creators
Maciejczyk, Katarzyna and Uniwersytet Łódzki
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Contents
FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; C H A P T E R I Biographical Dimension of the Return to the Birthplace; C H A P T E R I I Social Frames of Memory; C H A P T E R I I I Polish Memory and the Polish-Jewish Relations; C H A P T E R I V Jewish Memory; C H A P T E R V The Voyage-Return in Narrative Interviews with the Israeli; C H A P T E R V I The Return in Biographical Experience: Case Analyses; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
Summary
Biography and Memory discusses the return of Jews to their places of birth in Poland. A biographical urge to come full circle often leads to symbolic journeys to one's roots, but in the case of Shoah survivors, such journeys are unexpected, defying the generational definition of their biography, which mostly draws a demarcation line between wartime trauma and a new post- Holocaust life. Analyzed biographical stories collected from Israeli survivors indicate that such returns may be considered the last chapters of their wartime experiences. Survivors' biographies are examined in the context of both Jewish and Polish memory. This book will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and to general readers.
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ISBN
9781618111180 (electronic bk.)
1618111183 (electronic bk.)
9781936235780 (print)
1936235781 (print)
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Note
"The translation was supported by the University of Lodz"--Title page verso.
Translation of: Biografia i pamiȩć : na przykladzie pokoleniowego doświadczenia ocalonych z Zagłady. Kraków : Zakład Wydawniczy NOMOS, 2008.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-389) and index.
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