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Kazimierz: Środkowoeuropejskie doświadczenie rewitalizacji
Translated Title: Kazimierz: The Central European experience of urban regeneration
Author(s): Murzyn-Kupisz, Monika
Date: 2006
Topics: Jewish Neighbourhoods, Jewish Heritage, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: The first interdisciplinary summary of the regeneration of Krakow's Kazimierz district from the perspective of 15 years of system transformations. Changes to the urban tissue, functions and image of the district are showed against a larger context of regeneration of multiculturalurban areas in Central Europe.
Making Space for Jewish Culture in Polish Folk and Ethnographic Museums
Author(s): Lehrer, Erica; Murzyn-Kupisz, Monika
Date: 2019
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Heritage, Memory, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Museums
Abstract: Looking beyond Poland's internationally lauded new Jewish museums, this article asks how Jews are represented in longer-standing folk and ethnographic museums whose mandates have been to represent the historical culture of the Polish nation. How have such museums navigated growing internal pressures to incorporate Jews and reconsider the boundaries of “Polishness” alongside external pressures to rethink the function and approach of ethnographic museology? Based on three museums that have taken three different approaches to Jewishness—what we call cabinet of Jewish curiosities, two solitudes, and ambivalent externalization—we assess the roles played by inherited discourses and structures as well as human agents within and beyond the museum. We illuminate how social debate about the character of the nation (and Jews’ place in it) plays out in museums at a moment in their transition from nineteenth- to twenty-first-century paradigms and how a distinctively Polish path toward a “new museology” is emerging in conversation with and resistance to its Western counterparts.