Kadysz za zgładzone miasto
Kaddish for an exterminated city

Summary/Abstract: Although the starting point for the author of the essay is a specific book – Pinkes Szczekocin. Księga pamięci Szczekocin [Pinkes Szczekocin. Memorial Book of Szczekociny], it actually becomes an impetus to far more extensive consideration. Analyzing the narrative phenomenon of memorial books, that is works commemorating the Jewish communities of particular cities and towns exterminated in the Holocaust, the author ponders over how the specificity of such writing’s reception has changed. Memorial books, directed mainly to the descendants of the extermination survivors, become today an important source of knowledge about Jewish history and culture for Poles living in cities where Jewish life flourished before the war.

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