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Cursed

A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom

By: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

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Cursed

A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom

By: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

In Cursed, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics. Tokarska-Bakir weaves together the voices of the Kielce pogrom survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators with a myriad of other archival sources. Her meticulous research exposes wartime and postwar biographies of local factory workers, city and church officials, local police officers, and members of the security service, some of whom participated in the Holocaust and then directly or indirectly participated in the Kielce pogrom. Tokarska-Bakir paints a social portrait that explores people's behavior in light of forces and emotions greater than themselves. She reconstructs a postwar communist system that, despite promises to combat deeply rooted antisemitism, not only failed to prevent its spread but turned a blind eye to it and eventually used it to legitimize itself. Cursed is a microhistory that recreates the events of the Kielce pogrom step by step and examines the dominant hypotheses about the pogrom through the prism of previously classified archival evidence. It offers readers a nuanced analysis that cuts across social and ideological divisions. The resulting narrative is filled with new discoveries not only about the Kielce pogrom but about the nature of antisemitism, hostility toward minorities, and collective violence. Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Cornell University Press

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1501771493

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Cursed

A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom

By: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

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A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom

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Cornell University Press

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1501771507

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The Ethics of Cultural Studies

By: Joanna Zylinska

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The Ethics of Cultural Studies

By: Joanna Zylinska

Ethical questions feature prominently on today's cultural and political agendas. The Ethics of Cultural Studies presents an ethical manifesto for Cultural Studies, an exploration of its current ethical and political concerns, and of its future challenges. The book is concerned with ethics in the material world, and draws on examples as diverse as cloning and genetics, asylum and immigration, experiments in plastic surgery and in electronic and digital art, memories of the Holocaust, September 11th, and media representations of violence and crime. The Ethics of Cultural Studies is a groundbreaking intervention that sets the debate on ethics in cultural study, and offers an invaluable source of ideas for students of contemporary culture.

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191

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A&C Black

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1441101969

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Pogrom Cries - Essays on Polish-Jewish History, 1939-1946

2nd Revised Edition

By: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

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Pogrom Cries - Essays on Polish-Jewish History, 1939-1946

2nd Revised Edition

By: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

This book reexamines the situation of Jews who after the liquidation of ghettos were hiding in the villages of the Kielce-Sandomierz region, and the attitude of local Christian people and partisans towards these Jews. A fresh perspective is contributed by the author's anthropological approach to the newly discovered field and archival sources.

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Peter Lang D

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3631774486

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9783631774489

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The Ethics of Cultural Studies

The Ethics of Cultural Studies

Pogrom Cries - Essays on Polish-Jewish History, 1939-1946

Pogrom Cries - Essays on Polish-Jewish History, 1939-1946

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