(Mis)representations of the Jewish Past in Poland’s Memoryscapes: Nationalism, Religion, and Political Economies of Commemoration

  • Sławomir Kapralski
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Abstract

In contemporary culture and society, space is privileged over time as the main frame by which we orient ourselves in our lifeworlds. Even if this claim exaggerates a trend, the trend nevertheless exists: the growing role of space in late modernity marks this period as different from classical modernity with its emphasis on linear time and narrative.1 Likewise, if classical modernity was the age of history, late modernity is the age of memory: the capricious, non-linear work of remembrance, jumping from one image of the past to another, buffeted by the feelings evoked by the particular space in which we are located, or the communication networks in which we participate (Delanty, 1999: 71).

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Jewish History Jewish Culture Late Modernity Holocaust Education Holocaust Memorial 
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