Jewish Poland Revisited
Jewish Poland Revisited

Author: Erica T. Lehrer

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 025300893X

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National Jewish Book Award Finalist: “A fresh and delightful portrait of Jewish renewal in Poland . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice Since the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn about their own Polish roots and connect with contemporary Poles. For their part, a growing number of Poles are fascinated by all things Jewish. In this book, Erica T. Lehrer explores the intersection of Polish and Jewish memory projects in the historically Jewish neighborhood of Kazimierz in Krakow. Her own journey becomes part of the story as she demonstrates that Jews and Poles use spaces, institutions, interpersonal exchanges, and cultural representations to make sense of their historical inheritances.

Made in Poland
Made in Poland

Author: Miltiades Varvounis

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1524596647

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Tourists visiting Poland are taken to see Krakow, the nations soul, where a new humanistic civilization was created and from which it spread. Indeed, the role of the Polish people hasnt only been as the defenders of the West but also as a pivot, a conduit by means of which ideas, knowledge, and technologies have moved through Europe and the world. This book is about the creativity and larger-than-life achievements of the daughters and sons of Poland.

Civil Society Revisited
Civil Society Revisited

Author: Kerstin Jacobsson

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1800732066

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In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies. Focusing on forms of collective action that researchers have tended to overlook, the studies gathered here show how public discourse legitimizes certain claims and political actions as “true” civil society, while others are too often dismissed. Taken together, they critique a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’.

Stalinism Revisited
Stalinism Revisited

Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2009-11-10

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9633866782

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Deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945–1955). These years are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and of cultural revolution. Both a balance-sheet and a politico-historical synthesis that reflects the archival and thematic novelties which came about in the field of communism studies after 1989.