Jewish Cemeteries in Poland as a Testimony to the State of Affairs: The Ruined Garden, Twenty Years Later
Journal: DukeSpace (Duke University)
Year: 2014

This project is a quest into the vanished world of Polish Jewry, a world that flourished for about a millennium until its brutal annihilation in recent history. I investigate the most abundant vestiges of that world: Poland’s Jewish cemeteries, comparing their present states to that of twenty years ago. The inspiration for this project came from an oeuvre of Monica Krajewska, published in 1993, which documents and poetically describes 54 Jewish cemeteries in Poland. My project explores 15 of the