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The Klezmer Revival in Poland as a Contact Zone

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This chapter analyzes the general phenomenon of the revival of klezmer. It explains the klezmer revival as the most visible and controversial aspects of the popular surge of interest in the Jewish past, traditions, and heritage that unfolded over the last two decades in post-Holocaust and post-communist eastern Europe. It also mentions the various scholars that labelled the klezmer revival in different degrees of scepticism, such as “Jewish space,” “virtual Jewishness,” “redemptive cosmopolitanism,” or “post-Jewish culture.” The chapter discusses the Jewish heritage revival in Poland that addresses the lack of spiritual intensity in modern society. It notes the new surge of philosemitism in Polish cultural production that is merely a new incarnation of antisemitism and has a harmful or violent aspect.

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32

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461-476

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9781906764739

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Link to article in JSTOR, The Klezmer Revival in Poland as a Contact Zone
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Waligórska, Magdalena The Klezmer Revival in Poland as a Contact Zone. POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry. 2020: 461-476.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.2307/j.ctv1198tg3.31