O Shoah po Shoah
On the Shoah, the Shoah over

Summary/Abstract: Review: Pamięć Shoah. Kulturowe reprezentacje i praktyki upamiętniania, ed. by Tomasz Majewski, Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska, Officyna, Łódź 2009. A selection of texts in English has been published in a separate volume as Memory of Shoah: Cultural Representations and Commemorative Practices [editors & publishing house: ditto]. The publication is discussed in terms of its being unprecedented in the Polish afterthought on the Holocaust. The unique quality of this editorial project has been determined by its unusual scale, reflected in the number of authors involved and the multiplicity of their standpoints. Viewed in this way, Memory of Shoah cannot be approached as merely an academic description of ‘cultural representations and practices of commemoration’ of the Annihilation. It ought rather to be seen as a peculiar attempt at evidencing the variety of forms assumed by the humanistic reflection upon the Shoah – expressed, commented upon, and commenting itself in the innumerable, ever-resumed discourses, narrations, and artistic acts.

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