Horrific Pasts and Mundane Presents: Living among the Jewish Ghosts of Warsaw and Lublin
This article represents a consideration of the way in which the Jewish past in two key areas of Poland is obfuscated by the historical processes that led to the creation and re-creation of the urban space. Focussing on the district of Muranow in Warsaw and the Majdanek site in Lublin, the authors...
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Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University Press
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Chrześcijaństwo-Świat-Polityka |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/csp/article/view/9004 |
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| Summary: | This article represents a consideration of the way in which the Jewish past in two key areas of Poland is obfuscated by the historical processes that led to the creation and re-creation of the urban space. Focussing on the district of Muranow in Warsaw and the Majdanek site in Lublin, the authors argue that the juxtaposition of the horrific past and a more mundane present create a destabilizing disjunction – what Suzanne Knittel calls the “historical uncanny” – that unsettles and stands in the way of a Polish reconciliation with its Jewish past.
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| ISSN: | 1896-9038 2719-8405 |