Rediscovering traces of memory
Subtitle: the Jewish heritage of Polish Galicia
By: Jonathan Webber ; with photographs by Chris Schwarz.
Contributors: Schwarz, Chris, 1948-2007.
Series: The Littman library of Jewish civilization
Publisher: Indiana University Press; Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in Association with Liverpool University Press; The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781906764036; 9780253221858
Subjects: Jews -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History; Poland -- Ethnic relations
Description: "Since the Holocaust, traces of memory are virtually all that remain in Poland today after more than eight hundred years of Jewish life there. This remarkable album, published on behalf of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, offers a sensitive way of looking at that past. Based entirely on arresting, present-day colour photographs of Polish Galicia, it shows how much of that past can still be seen today if one knows how to look and how to interpret what one sees." "The seventy-four photographs are all fully captioned, with additional detailed background notes to explain and contextualize them. The idea is to help people understand the Jewish civilization of Polish Galicia in its local context on the basis of what can still be seen there."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.