The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World

Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States
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ISBN: 978-0-8135-9607-5
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Jewish socialist movement played a vital role in protecting workers’ rights throughout Europe and the Americas. Yet few traces of this movement or its accomplishments have been preserved or memorialized in Jewish heritage sites.

The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. In an account that is part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish museums and heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade, from Krakow to Kiev, and from Warsaw to New York, to discover which stories of the Jewish experience are told and which are silenced. As he travels to thirteen different locations, participates in tours, displays, and public programs, and gleans insight from local historians, he juxtaposes the historical record with the stories presented in heritage tourism. What he finds raises provocative questions about the heritage tourism industry and its role in determining how we perceive Jewish history and identity. This book offers a unique perspective on the importance of collective memory and the dangers of collective forgetting.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walkowitz, Daniel J

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Note on Text
- Introduction
- Prelude
- The Jewish Heritage Tourism Business
- Interlude
- Part I: Looking for Bubbe
- Mszczonów and ?ód?: Heritage Entrepreneurship
- Mostyska, Lviv, and Kiev: Double Erasures
- London: Walking Heritage Unpacked in the Jewish Diaspora
- New York: Immigrant Heritage in the Jewish Diaspora:

- Part II: Going Back
- Berlin: A Holocaust Cityscape
- Belgrade, Budapest, and Bucharest: Postwar Nationalism and Socialism
- Kraków and Warsaw: Troubling Paradigms
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel J. Walkowitz is a social and cultural historian who specializes in labor and urban history. An emeritus professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and of History at New York University, he is the author and editor of nearly a dozen books, most recently City Folk: English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America (New York University Press, 2013,) Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working Class Experience, 1756-2009 (Bloomsbury, 2010,) and Contested History in Public Spaces: Memory, Race, and Nation (ed., Duke University Press, 2009).