Return of the Jew : identity narratives of the third post-Holocaust generation of Jews in Poland / Katka Reszke.

By:

Reszke, Katka [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Polish Series: Jews of PolandPublisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1618112473
9781618112477
1618113089
9781618113085
9781618112460
1618112465
9781644690420
164469042X

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

943.8004924 23

LOC classification:

DS134.56 .R4713 2013

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

No physical items for this record

"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.

Print version record.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

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