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Traces of Memory
The Ruins of Jewish Civilization in Polish
Galicia
Author Information - Contents - Publication Details
500 stunning colour photographs, all fully captioned, show the traces of the Jewish past that are still to be seen in the towns and countryside of southern Poland. Accompanying texts explore how and where Jews lived before the Holocaust, where they were murdered, and how they are remembered in Poland today. They also explore the Holocaust and the pre-Holocaust past are remembered and consider the implications of these memories both for Jews and for society more generally.
Jonathan Webber is Unesco Professor of Jewish and Interfaith Studies at the University of Birmingham. He has been conducting anthropological fieldwork in Galicia since 1988. He has established courses at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in Holocaust and in Jewish Society, is a founder member of the International Auschwitz Council, and holds the Golden Cross of the Polish Order of Merit for his contribution to Polish–Jewish dialogue. His publications include Jewish Identities in the New Europe (published by the Littman Library) and Auschwitz: A History in Photographs.
Chris Schwarz has worked as a photographer since 1970 and has had a number of major exhibitions and published several photographic books. In 2004 he founded the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków, Poland, both to showcase the photographs in Traces of Memory and as a centre of cultural activity and education to increase Polish-Jewish understanding.
Author Information - Contents - Publication Details
| Format | 28.5 x 27.5 cm / 11" x 11.5" |
| Pages | 320 pages, 500 colour photographs, other illustrations, maps |
| ISBN | 978-1-874774-54-9 |
| Price | £45.00 |
| Date of publication | June 2009 Published in North America by Indiana University Press (ISBN 0-235-33449-7) |
© The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008