... at the end of the war. Auctioned in London from the estate of the scholar and collector Hagop Kevorkian in 1970, it was purchased by a prominent textile dealer and sold to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In 2002 the Polish government formally claimed the tapestry, which LACMA returned...

... Committee; Joint or JDC), operating out of Teheran. In other words: Parcels sent from Teheran to Tashkent, addressed and packed by Polish and German Jewish refugees in Iran, funded by Jews in New York and Tel Aviv, acquired in part with the help of the Bombay Jewish Relief Association, transported...

.... If “Jewish Stalinism” appeared grotesque from the vantage point of most Israeli or American Jews, the Polish Stalinist govern- ment’s claim to be the protector of Jewish rights and Jewish culture was not, in the spectrum of postwar Polish politics, without a certain bleak legitimacy. Khurbn Varshe...

... of the Hamburg Reserve Police Battalion 101, which, with astonishing willingness, took part in the murder of Polish Jews during 1941–42. Browning’s book, along with the crimes of the Wehrmacht exhibition in 1995 and Daniel Gold- hagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners in 1996, led to a fundamental debate...

.... 155 156  Shame and beyond Shame actual camp experiences and the context under which they produced their testimonies.2 Primarily because of his testimony, Borowski is one of the most renowned Polish writers of the postwar era. His account of the Holocaust is unique because he...

... Oschlies notes how postwar Polish press editors “sat helpless over manuscripts of former inmates,” cutting swaths of text that failed to meet industry-standard lexicon, tone, and relevancy crite- ria.9 Potential publishers were mesmerized by camp signifiers yet unable to manage their variability...

....” For the book that initiated the public process of coming to terms with local complicity in the genocide of Polish Jews, which is also mentioned by Petrowskaja, see Gross, Neighbors . 60. On the Holocaust in Ukraine, see Brandon and Lower, Shoah in Ukraine . 61. Ortner, “Reconfiguration...

... no claim to representativeness. Without ever explicitly referring to it, they indicate the lack of a coming to terms with the past in terms of the Polish-Jewish relationship, as evidenced by the heated debate in 2001 about the murder of the Jews of Jedwabne in the summer of 1941.22 What we see...

... an image: an overhead static shot of tracks as an approach- ing train grinds to a halt. Cut to a medium shot of a young blonde man disem- barking and looking around in confusion. A station announcer speaks Polish. As the traveler pauses to adjust his luggage, the train pulls away to reveal his...

... were posted on the website, some heirs of Holo- caust victims and a few Polish museums recognized artworks looted from their collections by the Nazis. However, these owners never had a chance to claim their art. All information about looted artworks was removed from the website. 33. Schoen...

... Geschichte in Kurzfassung, 259. 146 Teaching Trauma and Responsibility The book also includes the account of a priest who witnessed the deporta- tions. It mentions that Polish militiamen “packed seventy to eighty persons into train cars like cattle,” a conspicuous reference to mass transports...

... immigrant in interwar Berlin was far from easy. 7 Heschel must not have been fully immune to these difficulties. When Heschel arrived in Berlin, his clothing was that of a Polish Hasid; when he left, photos record a young man attired in the suit and tie of a yekke (a German Jew), clean-shaven, his...

... of Ukrainian literature, was born in southern Bukovina and grew up in Czernowitz, speaking mostly Polish and German. She was also fluent in Romanian, Ukrainian, and Russian, yet her first literary attempts were in German. It was not until later that she decided to write in Ukrainian, which was not her primary...

... distancing from the fi elds of confl ict. Brückner has managed to erase the memory of hostages being shot on Christmas Eve in a Polish village, a shooting he ordered, while Hans is tormented by the memory. Similarly, Brückner romanticizes “those golden 3. On the overdetermined signifi cance...

.... Similarly, Blacks in the United States had the support of the Third World. “Not so the Jew in the Nazi-German ghetto,” he wrote. Even Polish or Ukrainian partisans did not help Jewish rebels. At best they ignored them. The Allied forces, he insisted, were not free of antisemitism and promised their people...

... of this type, the story of Maimon’s journey is one of self-improvement and growth.17 The details may be dramati- cally unique, but the story itself unfolds in some banal settings. The spatial journey takes Maimon from the forgotten shtetl Sukowyborg in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth to eighteenth...

... working in compensatory ways, heterotopias foster illusions that contest the “real.” Simultaneously impossible and possible, the heterotopia shows the current state of the world to be mutable. The Kreuzberg milieu of Umsonst is certainly more polished than that of Die Fremde or Prinzessinnenbad...

... to breed back the aurochs ( Bos primigenius ), the wild ancestor of all domesticated taurine cattle. 1 According to Polish chronicles, the last aurochs died in 1627. But death and extinction are no match for effective storage technologies. Having studied remains (sometimes in the shape of drinking...

.... But honestly: what were you expecting? That we’d get something told in Thomas Mann’s detached style? Something more literarily polished? That would have been a crime. I expected something awful and got something awful, and I had to slog through seven hundred pages until I understood: this works only...

... term? The non-German German is of course an adaptation of the famous coinage the “non-Jewish Jew” by the Polish Jewish historian Isaac Deutscher. The link between the two identities is more than semantic. A universalist, postnational orientation constitutes their inner affin- ity. The non-Jewish...