The Golden Mean Principle. A Handful of Comments on the Currently Dominant Discourse on ‘Polish-Jewish Relations’

The article attempts to deconstruct the dominant Polish discourse regarding the ‘Polish-Jewish relations’. Its central ϐigures are: the logic of the golden mean as a tool to reach historical truth, symmetrisation of Polish and Jewish wrongs and faults, and hospitality as the prevalent attitude of P...

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Main Authors: Piotr Forecki, Anna Zawadzka
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Language:deu
Published: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badan nad Zaglada Zydow 2017-12-01
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Online Access:https://zagladazydow.pl/index.php/zz/article/view/725
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The Golden Mean Principle. A Handful of Comments on the Currently Dominant Discourse on ‘Polish-Jewish Relations’
Zagłada Żydów
anti-Semitism
Polish-Jewish relations
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Ida
monument of the Righteous
dominant discourse
title The Golden Mean Principle. A Handful of Comments on the Currently Dominant Discourse on ‘Polish-Jewish Relations’
title_full The Golden Mean Principle. A Handful of Comments on the Currently Dominant Discourse on ‘Polish-Jewish Relations’
title_fullStr The Golden Mean Principle. A Handful of Comments on the Currently Dominant Discourse on ‘Polish-Jewish Relations’
title_full_unstemmed The Golden Mean Principle. A Handful of Comments on the Currently Dominant Discourse on ‘Polish-Jewish Relations’
title_short The Golden Mean Principle. A Handful of Comments on the Currently Dominant Discourse on ‘Polish-Jewish Relations’
title_sort golden mean principle a handful of comments on the currently dominant discourse on polish jewish relations
topic anti-Semitism
Polish-Jewish relations
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Ida
monument of the Righteous
dominant discourse
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