Antony Polonsky

Michael C. Steinlauf

Scholarship on the civilization of Polish Jews has tended to focus on elite culture and canonical literature. Even modern Yiddish culture has generally been approached from the perspective of ‘great works’. This special issue on Jewish popular culture focuses on relatively less explored but historically vital forms of culture that have previously been relegated to the margins of scholarly interest. Most of the articles look at the period before the Second World War, but there are also several studies of the traces of this culture in the contemporary world. The volume is intended to help reconfigure our understanding of Polish Jewish civilization in its true richness and variety.

Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture and Its Afterlife

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16

Jan Błoński

University of Michigan. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

On the Jewish Sources of Bruno Schulz

A summary of Polish-Jewish relations up to and during the Holocaust outlines how the Polish people were involved in the Holocaust as witnesses, the subsequent denial of involvement after the war, and the communist manipulation of Holocaust memory in the struggle between the Solidarity movement and the Polish government.

Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust

Bondage to the Dead

Describes the Poles' memory of the Holocaust, which amounted to mass psychic and moral trauma unprecedented in history.

Michael C. Steinlauf

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