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Author Reszke, Katka.

Title Return of the Jew : identity narratives of the third post-Holocaust generation of Jews in Poland / Katka Reszke.

Publication Info. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Jews of Poland
Jews of Poland.
Note "This book is the result of research carried out over a period of ten years. Most of the fieldwork was performed as part of my doctoral program at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem"--Page 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-242) and index.
Contents Unexpected Generation -- About Me -- Socio-Historical Context -- The Contemporary Polish Jewish Cultural Milieu -- Theoretical Framework -- Identity -- Ethnicity -- Jewish Identity -- Conversion -- Authenticity -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure -- Analysis -- Positioning the Researcher -- Results -- Narrating Identity -- The Discovery -- Being Polish -- Being Jewish -- Sense of Mission -- Authenticity -- Certificate of Authenticity -- Sense of Authenticity vis-a-vis Oneself -- Sense of Authenticity vis-a-vis Others -- The "Real" Jew -- Models of Self-Authentication -- Conversion -- Circumcision -- To be a Jew in Poland -- Primordial Identity Narrative -- Perceived Essence of Jewishness -- Jewish Identity Boundaries -- Antisemitism -- Into the Future -- Discussion and Conclusions -- The World Gone Wrong -- The Discreet Charm of the Primordial -- The Primordial Paradigm -- The Constructivist Paradigm -- Primordialism is Circumstantial -- Uncertain Identities -- As "Real" as They Come.
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Subject Jews -- Poland -- Identity.
Jews.
Poland.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Jewish way of life.
Jewish way of life.
Judaism -- Poland -- 21st century.
Judaism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Jews -- Poland -- History -- 21st century.
History.
Jews -- Poland -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Poland -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781618112460 1618112465
ISBN 1618112473 (electronic book)
9781618112477 (electronic book)
9781618112460 (cloth)
1618112465 (cloth)