Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places

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aggression, programming, 64–66 American Jewish Committee, 202 anti-Polish feelings, 179 antisemitism, 21–22, 118, 145, 197, 221n53; anticipating, 63–74; communist era, 187, 189, 238n22; graffiti, 55–56, 225n3; historicization and reaction, 56; imagining , 69; myth creation, 70–72; “old,” 197–198; and photography, 67; Polish perspectives, 117; self and other, 195; in Western Europe, 21 apology for history, 193 artifacts, Jewish, 198 Ashkenazic collective memory, 110 Aszkenazy, Seweryn, 43 Auschwitz, 28, 30, 44, 77, 144; avoidance of, 116; founding, 119; and Israel, 162; Jewish and Polish views, 165; Jewish peoplehood, 193; name change, 75; as Polish town, 118; and roots search, 102; as symbol, 104; tours, 124 Austeria (café), 148 Austeria publishing house, 234n31 author story, 48–53, 55, 64–65 Aviv, Caryn, 57 Bauman, Zygmunt, 67–68 Bebak, Jerzy, 73 Behar, Ruth, 37 Beit krakow, 199 Berl, Michael, 68 Bernard Offen dialogue Club of krakow, 45 Bey, Hakim, 204 Birkenau (Brzezinka), 144, 163; March of the Living, 62, 72, 73, 75, 77 Birthright Israel, 59, 226n15, 227n18 B’nei Emuna prayer house, 41, 136 bookshops, Jewish, in Poland, 233n1 Bookstein, Rabbi Jonah, 135 Borderlands foundation (Pogranicze), 189, 202, 238n23 Bourdieu, Pierre, 109 Boyarin, Jonathan, 96, 196 Breglia, Lisa, 11 bricolage, 150 Brother Albert shelter, 131, 185–187 Brown, Wendy, 220n43 Bruner, Edward, 64, 74 Butler, Judith, 189, 195 Café Ariel, 32, 105, 133–136; criticisms, 145; employees, 139 Café Ariel/Austeria, 148 Café Ariel/klezmer Hois, 129, 133–134, 138–139 Café Ester, 185 cafés as dialogue sites, 135, 138–139 Cała, Alina, 117, 162–163 caretakers, 205 Catholic philosemitic quest, 46–47 Catholicism: and Polish ethnonationalism , 177 i n d e x 264 index Catholic-Jewish identity, 8, 186–187 cemeteries, 142–143, 192–193, 201, 202. See also Remu cemetery census, Polish, 237n2 Center for Jewish Culture, 41, 42, 44, 136– 137, 145 Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim, 3–4, 43, 199, 234n22 Cheder Café, 42, 158, 199 Chmielnik, 91, 92 Choay, francoise, 146 Christian-Jewish networks, 47 Cohen, david William, 18 Commonwealth Poland (pluralist) vision: heritage aesthetics, 147–148 communism, fall of, 198 communist era, 29, 187, 189; cultural activities , 124, 125; culture wars, 14; demonstrations, 79; figures and figurines , 79; Jewish communists, 187, 189, 238n22; organizations, 40 community, Jewish: definitions, 135, 205– 207; local complexities, 205–206; and Polish Jews, 5; services, 40; and transnational entities, 205–206 community, krakow Jewish (gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska), 30, 40; membership , 240m15; and missions, 77–82; rejuvenation , 125 community, Polish-Jewish, 15; acknowledgement and ambivalence, 77; history , 29; Jewishness, 237n10; scrutiny of, 39 community, Warsaw Jewish, 40 continuity, Jewish, 57, 226n8 conversion to Christianity, 239n25 conversion to Judaism, 82, 184–185, 194– 196, 205, 222n65 cross-identification, 189 cultural (heritage) brokers. See cultural stewards cultural activities, Jewish, 200 cultural challenges, Jewish and Polish, 209–210 cultural formatting, 203 cultural heritage, 2 cultural identity, 13 cultural interpenetration, 109 cultural stewards, 1, 2, 126, 146, 198, 207; and antisemitism, 142–143; and capitalism , 128; criticisms, 125; critique by, 143–144; dialogue and evolution, 130, 132; as heritage activists, 19; and Holocaust framework, 143; intercultural dialogue, 134; Jewish cemeteries, 142–143; Jewish reactions to, 179; “kosher and treyf,” 134; limits, 132; plural identities, 177–178; relationships, 224– 225n32; risks, 129; services, 91–92, 129 cultural stewardship: accidental nature, 130; cross-cultural, 127; refinement of, 131 culture, Jewish: avant-garde, 133; current , 200; destruction, 107; initiatives, 185; ownership, 178–179, 214; Polish government, 22; Polish interest in, 9, 29, 36, 168; Polish producers, 9; quest travel, 22; renaissance, 124, 188, 199– 203, 206–207 culture, post-Jewish, 148, 159–175, ix culture, hybrid, 213 culture brokers, 179, 220n37. See cultural stewards custodians. See cultural stewards Cwiszn (In Between) publication, 205 Czerwinski, Wacław, 167 Czyżewski,, krzysztof, 189 danzig, Alex, 22, 63 dialogue, and heritage space, 23 dialogue, intercultural, 134 dialogue and evolution: heritage landscape , 132–133 dialogue, culinary, 133–134 index 265 dmowski, Roman, 147 dominguez, virginia, 143–144 drzwiecka, Jolanta, 220n45 dual loyalty, 195 duda, Eugeniusz, 131 dybbek, dominick, 35, 149 Edelman, Marek: Jewish identity, 238n14 emotion, politicization of, 61 empathy, 195 Endecja movement, 147 Engel, david, 3 Engel, Zvi, 169 Epstein, Shifra, 174–175 ethnic diversity, 212–213 ethnographic context, 22 Ethnographic Museum. See krakow ethnographic museum ethnography: fieldwork, 37; Jewish, 48; in kazimierz, 37–40; and personal quests, 6; of possibility, 17, 18; postmodern , 6–7, 213–214; salvage, 46–49; self-reflexivity, 48...