Rediscovering Traces of Memory

Rediscovering Traces of Memory
Author: Jonathan Webber
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2018-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786949946

This much-updated edition of a ground-breaking book expands the broad coverage of its stimulating approach. With forty-five new photographs and accompanying essays, it convincingly demonstrates the complexity of the Jewish past in Polish Galicia and the attempts to memorialize its heritage, as well as the unexpected revival of Jewish life.

Rediscovering Traces of Memory

Rediscovering Traces of Memory
Author: Jonathan Meir Webber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2021
Genre: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN: 9781800343382

Since the Holocaust, traces of memory are virtually all that remain in Poland today of more than 800 years of Jewish life there. This album offers a sensitive way of looking at that past. This much-updated edition of a ground-breaking book expands the broad coverage of its stimulating approach. With forty-five new photographs and accompanying essays, it convincingly demonstrates the complexity of the Jewish past in Polish Galicia and the attempts to memorialize its heritage, as well as the unexpected revival of Jewish life.

A trace of memory

A trace of memory
Author: Keith Laumer
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2024-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Embark on a thrilling journey of mystery, intrigue, and suspense with "A Trace of Memory" by Keith Laumer, a gripping novel that will keep you guessing until the very end. Join Keith Laumer as he introduces readers to a world where nothing is as it seems and every clue leads to more questions than answers. With his masterful storytelling and skillful plotting, Laumer crafts a riveting tale of amnesia, conspiracy, and the search for truth in a world filled with danger and deception. As you delve into the pages of "A Trace of Memory," you'll be drawn into a web of intrigue and betrayal, where the line between friend and foe is constantly shifting and the truth is elusive. From shadowy government agencies to mysterious strangers with hidden agendas, every twist and turn will keep you on the edge of your seat as you race to uncover the secrets of the past. With its fast-paced plot, well-drawn characters, and unexpected plot twists, "A Trace of Memory" is a must-read for fans of the suspense thriller genre. Whether you're a newcomer to Laumer's work or a longtime fan, this book will keep you guessing until the very end and leave you eager for more. Through the gripping narrative of "A Trace of Memory," Keith Laumer explores timeless themes of identity, memory, and the nature of reality itself. It's a thought-provoking journey that will challenge your perceptions and leave you questioning everything you thought you knew. Don't miss your chance to unravel the mysteries of "A Trace of Memory." Order your copy today and prepare to be swept away by Keith Laumer's masterful storytelling and electrifying suspense.

Unsettled Heritage

Unsettled Heritage
Author: Yechiel Weizman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501761757

In Unsettled Heritage, Yechiel Weizman explores what happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places of worship that remained in Poland after the Holocaust, asking how postwar society in small, provincial towns perceived, experienced, and interacted with the physical traces of former Jewish neighbors. After the war, with few if any Jews remaining, numerous deserted graveyards and dilapidated synagogues became mute witnesses to the Jewish tragedy, leaving Poles with the complicated task of contending with these ruins and deciding on their future upkeep. Combining archival research into hitherto unexamined sources, anthropological field work, and cultural and linguistic analysis, Weizman uncovers the concrete and symbolic fate of sacral Jewish sites in Poland's provincial towns, from the end of the Second World War until the fall of the communist regime. His book weaves a complex tale whose main protagonists are the municipal officials, local activists, and ordinary Polish citizens who lived alongside the material reminders of their murdered fellow nationals. Unsettled Heritage shows the extent to which debating the status and future of the material Jewish remains was never a neutral undertaking for Poles—nor was interacting with their disturbing and haunting presence. Indeed, it became one of the most urgent municipal concerns of the communist era, and the main vehicle through which Polish society was confronted with the memory of the Jews and their annihilation.

The Trace Factory

The Trace Factory
Author: Yves Jeanneret
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1119720281

The collection and treatment of traces which reveal who we are and what we do naturally piques our interest when it pertains to others, and anxiety when it concerns ourselves. Do we truly know what a trace is? And if knowledge is power, how vulnerable are we in the public sphere? The demonstrability of a trace hides the complexity of the process that allows it to be produced, interpreted and used. This book proposes a reasoned approach to the analysis of the 'trace' as an object and as a sign. By following such an approach, the reader will understand how the media participates in the creation and deployment of traces, and the issues raised by what can be traced on social media. The Trace Factory offers a historical perspective, returning to the founding theories of collecting and producing traces linked to knowledge and power in society. Observing technology and information through the prism of these theories, a large number of devices and their uses are evaluated. This book offers itself as a tool of thought and work for researchers, professionals and social actors of all kinds who are confronted with the existence, treatment and interpretation of the traces of society and culture.

Traces of Memory

Traces of Memory
Author: Melissa Keys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 6
Release: 2006
Genre: Photography, Artistic
ISBN: 9780646463933

The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World

The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World
Author: Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813596068

Part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, this book investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. Acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade to Warsaw to New York to discover which stories of the Jewish experience get told and which get silenced.

The Broken Voice

The Broken Voice
Author: Robert Eaglestone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2017-05-26
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0191084204

'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertész, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as one's subject to detect the broken voice that has dominated modern European art for decades'. Robert Eaglestone attends to this broken voice in literature in order to explore the meaning of the Holocaust in the contemporary world, arguing, again following Kertész, that the Holocaust will 'remain through culture, which is really the vessel of memory'. Drawing on the thought of Hannah Arendt, Eaglestone identifies and develops five concepts—the public secret, evil, stasis, disorientalism, and kitsch—in a range of texts by significant writers (including Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Littell, Imre Kertész, W. G. Sebald, and Joseph Conrad) as well as in work by victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust and of atrocities in Africa. He explores the interweaving of complicity, responsibility, temporality, and the often problematic powers of narrative which make up some part of the legacy of the Holocaust.

Who Will Write Our History?

Who Will Write Our History?
Author: Samuel D. Kassow
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2011-05-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307793753

In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis. Shortly before the Warsaw ghetto was emptied and razed in 1943, the Oyneg Shabes buried thousands of documents from this massive archive in milk cans and tin boxes, ensuring that the voice and culture of a doomed people would outlast the efforts of their enemies to silence them. Impeccably researched and thoroughly compelling, Samuel D. Kassow's Who Will Write Our History? tells the tragic story of Ringelblum and his heroic determination to use historical scholarship to preserve the memory of a threatened people.