Gabriel N. Finder is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. He is writing a book on the role of the politics of memory in rebuilding Jewish life in post-war Poland; he has published articles in the journals Polin, Gal-Ed, and East European Jewish Affairs and contributed to the forthcoming YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She is the co-editor, with Antony Polonsky and Brian Horowitz, of 'Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe' (2016), and has published widely on Polish Jewish issues. Among several prestigious fellowships, she has been a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich and at the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna, and the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.Jan Schwarz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago.

• Note on Place Names Note on TransliterationPART I: MAKING HOLOCAUST MEMORYIntroduction GABRIEL N. FINDERMemento Mori: Photographs from the Grave GABRIEL N. FINDER AND JUDITH R. COHENThe Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, 1944–1947 NATALIA ALEKSIUNWho Am I? Jewish Children’s Search for Identity in Post-War Poland, 1945–1949 JOANNA B. MICHLICJewish Collaborators on Trial in Poland, 1944–1956 GABRIEL N. FINDER AND ALEXANDER V. PRUSINAuschwitz and the Politics of Martyrdom and Memory, 1945–1947 JONATHAN HUENERA Library of Hope and Destruction: The Yiddish Book Series Dos poylishe yidntum (Polish Jewry), 1946–1956 JAN SCHWARZRachel Auerbach, Yad Vashem, and Israeli Holocaust Memory BOAZ COHENHolocaust Memorialization in Ukraine REBECCA GOLBERTJedwabne and Wizna: Monuments and Memory in the Lomza Region MARTA KURKOWSKASo Many Questions: The Development of Holocaust Education in Post-Communist Poland JOLANTA AMBROSEWICZ-JACOBSFrom Silence to Reconstruction: The Holocaust in Polish Education since 1989 ROBERT SZUCHTAWhat Story to Tell? Shaping the Narrative of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews MICHAEL C. STEINLAUFBearing Witness: Henryk Grynberg’s Path from Child Survivor to Artist (An Interview with Henryk Grynberg) JOANNA B. MICHLICPART II: NEW VIEWS‘On the Gallows’: The ‘Politics of Assimilation’ in Turn-of-the-Century Warsaw SCOTT URYShabes, yontef un rosh-khoydesh: A Close Analysis of the First Line of Goldfadn’s Song SETH L. WOLITZJózefa Singer, the Inspiration for Rachela in Stanislaw Wyspianski’s Wesele, 1901 REGINA GROLIntroducing Miss Judaea 1929: The Politics of Beauty, Race, and Zionism in Inter-War Poland EVA PLACHShmerke Kaczerginski, the Partisan-Troubadour BRET WERBYou from Jedwabne JOANNA TOKARSKA-BAKIRPART III: THE NEW SYNAGOGUE OF POZNANThe Synagogues of Poznan CAROL HERSELLE KRINSKYThe Dedication of the New Synagogue in Poznan (Posen) ANTONY POLONSKY PART IV: DOCUMENTA Selection from Part 1 of Lev Levanda’s Seething Times MAXIM R. SHRAYERNotes on Contributors Index

Gabriel N. Finder is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. He is writing a book on the role of the politics of memory in rebuilding Jewish life in post-war Poland; he has published articles in the journals Polin, Gal-Ed, and East European Jewish Affairs and contributed to the forthcoming YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She is the co-editor, with Antony Polonsky and Brian Horowitz, of 'Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe' (2016), and has published widely on Polish Jewish issues. Among several prestigious fellowships, she has been a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich and at the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna, and the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.Jan Schwarz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago.

• Note on Place Names Note on TransliterationPART I: MAKING HOLOCAUST MEMORYIntroduction GABRIEL N. FINDERMemento Mori: Photographs from the Grave GABRIEL N. FINDER AND JUDITH R. COHENThe Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, 1944–1947 NATALIA ALEKSIUNWho Am I? Jewish Children’s Search for Identity in Post-War Poland, 1945–1949 JOANNA B. MICHLICJewish Collaborators on Trial in Poland, 1944–1956 GABRIEL N. FINDER AND ALEXANDER V. PRUSINAuschwitz and the Politics of Martyrdom and Memory, 1945–1947 JONATHAN HUENERA Library of Hope and Destruction: The Yiddish Book Series Dos poylishe yidntum (Polish Jewry), 1946–1956 JAN SCHWARZRachel Auerbach, Yad Vashem, and Israeli Holocaust Memory BOAZ COHENHolocaust Memorialization in Ukraine REBECCA GOLBERTJedwabne and Wizna: Monuments and Memory in the Lomza Region MARTA KURKOWSKASo Many Questions: The Development of Holocaust Education in Post-Communist Poland JOLANTA AMBROSEWICZ-JACOBSFrom Silence to Reconstruction: The Holocaust in Polish Education since 1989 ROBERT SZUCHTAWhat Story to Tell? Shaping the Narrative of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews MICHAEL C. STEINLAUFBearing Witness: Henryk Grynberg’s Path from Child Survivor to Artist (An Interview with Henryk Grynberg) JOANNA B. MICHLICPART II: NEW VIEWS‘On the Gallows’: The ‘Politics of Assimilation’ in Turn-of-the-Century Warsaw SCOTT URYShabes, yontef un rosh-khoydesh: A Close Analysis of the First Line of Goldfadn’s Song SETH L. WOLITZJózefa Singer, the Inspiration for Rachela in Stanislaw Wyspianski’s Wesele, 1901 REGINA GROLIntroducing Miss Judaea 1929: The Politics of Beauty, Race, and Zionism in Inter-War Poland EVA PLACHShmerke Kaczerginski, the Partisan-Troubadour BRET WERBYou from Jedwabne JOANNA TOKARSKA-BAKIRPART III: THE NEW SYNAGOGUE OF POZNANThe Synagogues of Poznan CAROL HERSELLE KRINSKYThe Dedication of the New Synagogue in Poznan (Posen) ANTONY POLONSKY PART IV: DOCUMENTA Selection from Part 1 of Lev Levanda’s Seething Times MAXIM R. SHRAYERNotes on Contributors Index

Gabriel N. Finder is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. He is writing a book on the role of the politics of memory in rebuilding Jewish life in post-war Poland; he has published articles in the journals Polin, Gal-Ed, and East European Jewish Affairs and contributed to the forthcoming YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She is the co-editor, with Antony Polonsky and Brian Horowitz, of 'Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe' (2016), and has published widely on Polish Jewish issues. Among several prestigious fellowships, she has been a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich and at the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna, and the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.Jan Schwarz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago.

• Note on Place Names Note on TransliterationPART I: MAKING HOLOCAUST MEMORYIntroduction GABRIEL N. FINDERMemento Mori: Photographs from the Grave GABRIEL N. FINDER AND JUDITH R. COHENThe Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, 1944–1947 NATALIA ALEKSIUNWho Am I? Jewish Children’s Search for Identity in Post-War Poland, 1945–1949 JOANNA B. MICHLICJewish Collaborators on Trial in Poland, 1944–1956 GABRIEL N. FINDER AND ALEXANDER V. PRUSINAuschwitz and the Politics of Martyrdom and Memory, 1945–1947 JONATHAN HUENERA Library of Hope and Destruction: The Yiddish Book Series Dos poylishe yidntum (Polish Jewry), 1946–1956 JAN SCHWARZRachel Auerbach, Yad Vashem, and Israeli Holocaust Memory BOAZ COHENHolocaust Memorialization in Ukraine REBECCA GOLBERTJedwabne and Wizna: Monuments and Memory in the Lomza Region MARTA KURKOWSKASo Many Questions: The Development of Holocaust Education in Post-Communist Poland JOLANTA AMBROSEWICZ-JACOBSFrom Silence to Reconstruction: The Holocaust in Polish Education since 1989 ROBERT SZUCHTAWhat Story to Tell? Shaping the Narrative of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews MICHAEL C. STEINLAUFBearing Witness: Henryk Grynberg’s Path from Child Survivor to Artist (An Interview with Henryk Grynberg) JOANNA B. MICHLICPART II: NEW VIEWS‘On the Gallows’: The ‘Politics of Assimilation’ in Turn-of-the-Century Warsaw SCOTT URYShabes, yontef un rosh-khoydesh: A Close Analysis of the First Line of Goldfadn’s Song SETH L. WOLITZJózefa Singer, the Inspiration for Rachela in Stanislaw Wyspianski’s Wesele, 1901 REGINA GROLIntroducing Miss Judaea 1929: The Politics of Beauty, Race, and Zionism in Inter-War Poland EVA PLACHShmerke Kaczerginski, the Partisan-Troubadour BRET WERBYou from Jedwabne JOANNA TOKARSKA-BAKIRPART III: THE NEW SYNAGOGUE OF POZNANThe Synagogues of Poznan CAROL HERSELLE KRINSKYThe Dedication of the New Synagogue in Poznan (Posen) ANTONY POLONSKY PART IV: DOCUMENTA Selection from Part 1 of Lev Levanda’s Seething Times MAXIM R. SHRAYERNotes on Contributors Index