OUR JEWISH LUBLIN ROOTS: WHAT DO THEY MEAN TO US? PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM AN EXPLORATORY ONLINE STUDY
OUR JEWISH LUBLIN ROOTS: WHAT DO THEY MEAN TO US? PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM AN EXPLORATORY ONLINE STUDY

Summary/Abstract: This article describes two aspects of an exploratory international online study conducted by written questionnaire in the years 2021–2022. One focus of the study was on the personal importance/meaning participants ascribed to their Jewish Lublin roots. A second focus was on the role Lublin stories played in partic- ipants’ lives, i.e., the presence/absence of such stories in family life, the age/stage of life when Lublin stories were first heard, the content and tone of these stories, and whether a relationship could be detected between the narratives heard and importance ascribed by the participants to their Lublin roots. The participants were those who, or whose ancestors/families, originated from Lublin but left the city decades ago, mostly during the twentieth century. These participants now live in countries around the world. Preliminary quantitative information and qualita- tive analyses hinted at differences among the study’s sixty respondents. These differences were most often associated with (a) the period of history during which respondents or their families left Lublin; (b) how closely/directly the lives of those who left had been touched by events of the Holocaust; and (c) how much time had elapsed, and how many generations came, between those who left Lublin and their now-living descendants. Selected results are discussed.

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