Poland and Polin

Irena Grudzińska-Gross teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University and is also Professor in the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Science. She studied in Poland, Italy, and the United States. She researches issues of war and violence in modern and contemporary European literature.Iwa Nawrocki is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Princeton University. Her research examines the interplay between national and transnational intellectual activism in campaigns for democracy, human rights, and social justice with a primary focus on Brazil, Nicaragua, and Poland, and parallel interests in the Southern Cone, Cuba, and the Soviet Bloc.

• Contents: Geneviève Zubrzycki: Conference Report – Jan Grabowski: The Holocaust as a Polish Problem – Jan T. Gross: Jews as a Polish Problem; and Why Not - as a Part of Polish History? – Irena Grudzińska-Gross: Polishness in Practice – Joanna Tokarska-Bakir: Polin: «Ultimate Lost Object» – Konrad Matyjaszek: Wall and Window: the Rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto as the Narrative Space of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews – Piotr Forecki/Anna Zawadzka: The Rule of the Golden Mean – Elżbieta Janicka: The Embassy of Poland in Poland: The Polin Myth in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews as Narrative Pattern and Model of Minority-Majority Relations – Geneviève Zubrzycki: Problematizing the «Jewish Turn» – Karen Underhill: Toward a Diasporic Poland/Polin: Zeitlin, Sutzkever, and the Ghost Dance with Jewish Poland – Erica Lehrer: Public Pedagogy and Transnational, Transcultural Museums.