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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.

Title Rediscovering traces of memory : the Jewish heritage of Polish Galicia / Jonathan Webber
photographs by Chris Schwarz and Jason Francisco.
Edition Second edition.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2021
Notes This edition previously issued in print: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2018.
Published on behalf of the Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content A posthumous collaboration : a photographer's perspective / Jason Francisco -- Jewish life in ruins -- Glimpses of the Jewish culture that once was -- The Holocaust : sites of massacre -- How the past is being remembered -- The revival of Jewish life.
Series Liverpool scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations
Language English
National Library system number 997011431155505171
MARC RECORDS
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