Describing Who?: Poland in Photographs by Jewish Artists

ISBN-13: 9783631647028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 167 str.

Joanna Auron-Gorska

Opis

-Describing Who?- reveals the significance of photographs taken in contemporary Poland by professional American, French and Israeli Jewish photographers. Writing critically from the vantage point of her Polish and Jewish background, Joanna Auron-Gorska argues that while visual representations of Poland and the Poles may appear atemporal, they are neither ahistorical nor apolitical. They are, instead, influenced by the culturally conditioned construct within which Poland serves to maintain the memory of the Shoah, by war trauma, and by post-war politics. The attitudes of foreign Western Jewry to non-Jewish Poles and Poland have so far received limited scholarship; this analysis is a contribution towards enlightening the conversation between Poles and Jews from outside of Poland."

Spis treści

Contents: Visual and literary representation - Contemporary photography - Poland - Professional photographers from Western Europe and the USA - World War Two - Trauma - Shoah - Jewish identity - Intercultural communication - Media censorship - Cultural transfer - Transfer of blame - Heritage - Jewish photography.

O autorze

Joanna Auron-Górska is a scholar and practitioner of Jewish-Polish relations, a writer, an artist, a photographer, an interpreter, a translator and a lecturer. Her main interests include Polish and Jewish identity, visual representation, cultural studies and interfaith dialogue.