Żydzi i Niemcy w Poznaniu – (nie)pamięć w krajobrazie miejskim. Analiza korpusu prasowego i wywiadów grupowych
Jews and Germans in Poznań – (Non)Memory in the Urban Landscape. An Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus and Focus Groups Interviews

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to describe the interaction between the changing urban landscape of the city of Poznań and the (non)memory of the city inhabitants about its multi-ethnic heritage. The focus is on the cemeteries past and present, some of which were transformed into spaces with new functionalities. The quantitative and qualitative research was conducted in two stages. First, drawing on corpus linguistic methods, articles from two dailies: „Głos Wielkopolski” and „Gazeta Wyborcza” – the local supplement, covering 1990–2014 were analysed. This analysis led to the formulation of topics for the focus group interviews conducted among the four generations of Poznań inhabitants. In this way the collective memory about Poznan Jews and Germans could be investigated in its two dimensions: the public discourse of mass media as well as the semi-private discourses of communicated memory.

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