Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 20
Making Holocaust Memory
Gabriel N. Finder, Natalia Aleksiun, Antony Polonsky and Jan Schwarz

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The reconciliation of Jewish and Polish memories of the Holocaust is the central issue in contemporary Polish-Jewish relations, yet this is the first volume to examine Poles’ and Jews’ shared yet divisive memory of the Holocaust in a comprehensive way. The ‘New Views’ section features several examples of recent innovative research in other areas of Polish–Jewish studies, including the history of the New Synagogue in Poznan which was converted by the Nazis into a swimming-pool.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Natalia Aleksiunis Assistant Professor in Eastern European Jewish History, Touro College, New York. Her publications include Dokad dalej: Ruch syjonistyczny w Polsce, 1944–1949 (Where further? The Zionist Movement in Poland, 1944–1949) and more than twenty scholarly articles.

Gabriel N. Finder is former Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies and teaches Jewish history at the University of Virginia. He is writing a book on the role of the politics of memory in rebuilding Jewish life in post-war Poland; he has published articles in the journals Polin, Gal-Ed, and East European Jewish Affairs and contributed to the forthcoming YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.

Antony Polonsky is Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972), The Little Dictators (1975), The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976), The Jews in Poland and Russia, Volume 1 and 2 (forthcoming), and co-author of A History of Modern Poland (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981).

Jan Schwarz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, and author of Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers.

CONTRIBUTORS

Natalia Aleksiun, Assistant Professor in Eastern European Jewish History, Touo College, New York
Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Head, Section for Holocaust Studies, Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków; curator, International Centre for  Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Boaz Cohen, teacher in Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Shaanan and Western Galilee Colleges, northern Israel
Judith Cohen, Director of the Photographic Reference Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
Gabriel N. Finder, former Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies University of Virginia
Rebecca Golbert, researcher
Regina Grol, Professor of Comparative Literature, Empire State College, State University of New York
Jonathan Huener, Associate Professor of History, University of Vermont
Carol Herselle Krinsky, Professor of Fine Arts, New York University
Marta Kurkowska, Lecturer, Institute of History, Jagiellonian, University, Kraków
Joanna B. Michlic, Assistant Professor, Holocaust and Genocide Program, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey
Eva Plach, Assistant Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
Alexander V. Prusin, Associate Professor of History, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Jan Schwarz, Senior Lecturer, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian and English, Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Co-Director, Jewish Studies Program, Boston College
Michael C. Steinlauf, Professor of Jewish History and Culture, Gratz College, Pennsylvania
Robert Szuchta, History teacher, Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz High School, Warsaw
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Lectuer in Cultural Anthroplogy, Warsaw University; Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Collegium Civitas, Poland
Scott Ury, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
Bret Werb, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
Seth L. Wolitz, Gale Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin

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