Warsaw 2013
Warsaw 2013
Author(s): Robert Blobaum, Beth Holmgren, Ewa V. WampuszycSubject(s): Cultural history, Jewish studies, Local History / Microhistory, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, Editorial
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Warsaw; Holocaust; World War II; Ashkenazi Jewish culture; Polish culture; interwar period; editorial; introduction;
Summary/Abstract: For the vast majority of Americans, the mention of Warsaw conjures up images of the Holocaust and World War II. In comparison with other Central European capitals such as Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, Warsaw remains fixed as a site of wartime suffering and destruction in English-language publications. In part, these impressions stem from the fact that interwar Warsaw was a major center of Ashkenazi Jewish culture, and stories of this center’s flourishing and destruction attract the largest number of American readers. Because the Holocaust relentlessly reduced this Jewish center to a ghetto and then a ghost town, tributes to the Polish Jewish dead and memoirs of the Holocaust’s survivors naturally dominate Englishlanguage tales of the city.
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 27/2013
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 185-186
- Page Count: 2
- Language: English
