Jews and Non-Jews: Memories and Interactions from the Perspective of Cultural Studies

Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich is Professor of American Literature and Cross-Cultural Communication at SWPS/University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. Her main field of research is Jewish American fiction.Jacek Partyka is Assistant Professor at the University of Białystok (Poland), where he teaches History of American Literature, Modernism in American Literature and American Holocaust Fiction.

• Contents: Victoria Khiterer: Kiev Jews in the Early Twentieth Century: National Identity and Culture – Klaus Hödl: Viennese Culture in 1900: Bridging the Divide – Natalie Wynn: Ireland’s Jewish Identity Crisis – Mara W. Cohen Ioannides: The Community Memory of Springfield, Missouri Suppresses the City’s Jewish Past – Anna Maria Karczewska: Jewminicanos and the Sosúa Settlement – Hanna Komorowska: Stereotyping Through Silence and Speech. Cross-Cultural Differences in Conversational Styles of Poles and Jews as Presented in Polish Literature – Annette Aronowicz: No Longer Other? Jews in Czesław Miłosz’s Landscape – Magdalena Szkwarek: Manifestations of Jewishness in Literature of Latin America – Dorota Mihułka: Temptations of Non-Jewish Lifestyle in Allegra Goodman’s and Pearl Abraham’s Novels – Jacek Partyka: «False Veins Under the Skin»: Does Edward Lewis Wallant’s The Pawnbroker Fail as Holocaust Fiction? – Maria Ferenc Piotrowska: The Feelings of Survivors of the First Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto – Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk: The Mother-Daughter Dyad in Bożena Keff’s On Mother and the Fatherland – Justyna Sierakowska: A Quest for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland: Agata Tuszyńska’s Family History – Na’ama Sheffi: Normalization through Literature: Translations from German into Hebrew during the 1970s – Yechiel Weizman: The Sacralization and Secularization of the Jewish Cemeteries in Poland.