Describing Who?: Poland in Photographs by Jewish Artists (Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory)

Thông tin sách: Describing Who?: Poland in Photographs by Jewish Artists (Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory) (Hardcover, 167 trang) – Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014. Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh.

«Describing Who?» reveals the significance of photographs taken in contemporary Poland by professional American, French and Israeli Jewish photographers. Writing critically from the vantage point of her Polish and Jewish background, Joanna Auron-Górska argues that while visual representations of Poland and the Poles may appear atemporal, they are neither ahistorical nor apolitical. They are, instead, influenced by the culturally conditioned construct within which Poland serves to maintain the memory of the Shoah, by war trauma, and by post-war politics. The attitudes of foreign Western Jewry to non-Jewish Poles and Poland have so far received limited scholarship; this analysis is a contribution towards enlightening the conversation between Poles and Jews from outside of Poland. Editorial Reviews About the Author Joanna Auron-Górska is a scholar and practitioner of Jewish-Polish relations, a writer, an artist, a photographer, an interpreter, a translator and a lecturer. Her main interests include Polish and Jewish identity, visual representation, cultural studies and interfaith dialogue.