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Jewish Communities in Pre-war Central Poland as an Example of a Self-organising Society

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The current paper presents the experience of mapping pre-war Jewish communities in pre-war central Poland. While going through a period of intensive social and cultural transformations these communities may be considered a prototype of contemporary complex societies. The initial analytical framework, provided thanks to the GIS database and concatenation of attributes coming from various sources, makes some initial observations and conclusions possible. It confirms the thesis that Jewish communities in pre-war Poland may be considered an example of a self-organising society, one which could be considered a prototype of contemporary postmodern cultural complexity. The current study provides the initial framework to map the morphology and spatial distribution of the complexity of everyday culture of use of space proper to this extremely diverse group.

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Acknowledgements

The current study is a part of the research project financed by The National Science Centre of Poland UMO-2011/03/D/HS3/01630, entitled: “Morphological analysis of urban structures – the cultural approach. Case studies of Jewish communities in the chosen settlements of Lodz and Masovian voivodeships”. Part of the methodological research was performed in SENSEable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology within the framework of a Fulbright Senior Research Award.

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    Małgorzata Hanzl

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Hanzl, M. (2017). Jewish Communities in Pre-war Central Poland as an Example of a Self-organising Society. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10406. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62398-6_16

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