Return of the Jew : identity narratives of the third post-Holocaust generation of Jews in Poland /
Reszke, Katka,
Return of the Jew : identity narratives of the third post-Holocaust generation of Jews in Poland / Katka Reszke. - 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations - Jews of Poland . - Jews of Poland. .
"This book is the result of research carried out over a period of ten years. Most of the fieldwork was performed as part of my doctoral program at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem"--Page 9
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-242) and index.
Unexpected Generation -- About Me -- Socio-Historical Context -- The Contemporary Polish Jewish Cultural Milieu -- Theoretical Framework -- Identity -- Ethnicity -- Jewish Identity -- Conversion -- Authenticity -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure -- Analysis -- Positioning the Researcher -- Results -- Narrating Identity -- The Discovery -- Being Polish -- Being Jewish -- Sense of Mission -- Authenticity -- Certificate of Authenticity -- Sense of Authenticity vis-a-vis Oneself -- Sense of Authenticity vis-a-vis Others -- The "Real" Jew -- Models of Self-Authentication -- Conversion -- Circumcision -- To be a Jew in Poland -- Primordial Identity Narrative -- Perceived Essence of Jewishness -- Jewish Identity Boundaries -- Antisemitism -- Into the Future -- Discussion and Conclusions -- The World Gone Wrong -- The Discreet Charm of the Primordial -- The Primordial Paradigm -- The Constructivist Paradigm -- Primordialism is Circumstantial -- Uncertain Identities -- As "Real" as They Come.
A new, "unexpected" generation of Jews made an appearance in Poland following the fall of the communist regime. Once home to the greatest Jewish community in the world and then site of one of the biggest tragedies in Jewish history, today Poland is experiencing what some have called a "renaissance of Jewish culture." Simultaneously, more and more Poles are discovering their Jewish roots and beginning to seek forms of Jewish affiliation. Can there be "authentic" Jewish life in Poland after fifty years of oppression? "Return of the Jew" offers the first in-depth study of the third post-Holocaust generation of Jews in Poland. It provides a revealing account of the experience of being or rather becoming Jewish vis-a-vis uniquely compelling circumstances
1618112473 9781618112477 1618113089 9781618113085 9781618112460 1618112465 9781644690420 164469042X
102898 Knowledge Unlatched 22573/ctv213nh8f JSTOR
2013475339
016425454 Uk
1900-2099
Jews--Identity.--Poland
Jewish way of life.
Judaism--Poland--21st century.
Jews--History--Poland--21st century.
Jews--History--Poland--20th century.
Jewish studies.
HISTORY--Europe--Germany.
Ethnic relations.
Jewish way of life.
Jews.
Jews--Identity.
Judaism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
Poland--Ethnic relations.
Poland.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
DS134.56 / .R4713 2013
943.8004924
Return of the Jew : identity narratives of the third post-Holocaust generation of Jews in Poland / Katka Reszke. - 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations - Jews of Poland . - Jews of Poland. .
"This book is the result of research carried out over a period of ten years. Most of the fieldwork was performed as part of my doctoral program at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem"--Page 9
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-242) and index.
Unexpected Generation -- About Me -- Socio-Historical Context -- The Contemporary Polish Jewish Cultural Milieu -- Theoretical Framework -- Identity -- Ethnicity -- Jewish Identity -- Conversion -- Authenticity -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure -- Analysis -- Positioning the Researcher -- Results -- Narrating Identity -- The Discovery -- Being Polish -- Being Jewish -- Sense of Mission -- Authenticity -- Certificate of Authenticity -- Sense of Authenticity vis-a-vis Oneself -- Sense of Authenticity vis-a-vis Others -- The "Real" Jew -- Models of Self-Authentication -- Conversion -- Circumcision -- To be a Jew in Poland -- Primordial Identity Narrative -- Perceived Essence of Jewishness -- Jewish Identity Boundaries -- Antisemitism -- Into the Future -- Discussion and Conclusions -- The World Gone Wrong -- The Discreet Charm of the Primordial -- The Primordial Paradigm -- The Constructivist Paradigm -- Primordialism is Circumstantial -- Uncertain Identities -- As "Real" as They Come.
A new, "unexpected" generation of Jews made an appearance in Poland following the fall of the communist regime. Once home to the greatest Jewish community in the world and then site of one of the biggest tragedies in Jewish history, today Poland is experiencing what some have called a "renaissance of Jewish culture." Simultaneously, more and more Poles are discovering their Jewish roots and beginning to seek forms of Jewish affiliation. Can there be "authentic" Jewish life in Poland after fifty years of oppression? "Return of the Jew" offers the first in-depth study of the third post-Holocaust generation of Jews in Poland. It provides a revealing account of the experience of being or rather becoming Jewish vis-a-vis uniquely compelling circumstances
1618112473 9781618112477 1618113089 9781618113085 9781618112460 1618112465 9781644690420 164469042X
102898 Knowledge Unlatched 22573/ctv213nh8f JSTOR
2013475339
016425454 Uk
1900-2099
Jews--Identity.--Poland
Jewish way of life.
Judaism--Poland--21st century.
Jews--History--Poland--21st century.
Jews--History--Poland--20th century.
Jewish studies.
HISTORY--Europe--Germany.
Ethnic relations.
Jewish way of life.
Jews.
Jews--Identity.
Judaism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
Poland--Ethnic relations.
Poland.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
DS134.56 / .R4713 2013
943.8004924