Research Catalog

Title

Rediscovering traces of memory : the Jewish heritage of Polish Galicia / Jonathan Webber ; photographs by Chris Schwarz.

Author

Webber, Jonathan (Jonathan Meir)

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2009.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Schwarz, Chris, 1948-2007.
• Żydowskie Muzeum Galicja (Kraków, Poland)

Description

vi, 186 p. : col. ill., maps; 21 x 23 cm.

Summary

"Since the Holocaust, traces of memory are virtually all that remain in Poland today after more than eight hundred years of Jewish life there. This remarkable album, published on behalf of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, offers a sensitive way of looking at that past. Based entirely on arresting, present-day colour photographs of Polish Galicia, it shows how much of that past can still be seen today if one knows how to look and how to interpret what one sees." "The seventy-four photographs are all fully captioned, with additional detailed background notes to explain and contextualize them. The idea is to help people understand the Jewish civilization of Polish Galicia in its local context on the basis of what can still be seen there."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

Uniform Title

Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

Subject

• Jews > Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) > History
• Poland > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• "From the permanent exhibition of The Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Jewish life in ruins -- Jewish culture as it once was -- The Holocaust: site of massacre and destruction -- How the past is being remembered -- People making memory today.

ISBN

• 9781906764036
• 1906764034
• 9780253221858
• 0253221854

LCCN

^^2009019303

OCLC

• 323127181
• SCSB-10601478

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library