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A history of overwriting: Jewish cemeteries in postwar Poland, Ukraine and Belarus
Author(s): Duch-Dyngosz, Marta; Friedman, Alexander; Sorkina, Ina; Waligórska, Magdalena
Date: 2024
Topics: Cemeteries, Ethnography, Holocaust, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Heritage, Memorial, Memory
Abstract: Focused on the post-1944 history of Jewish cemeteries in three towns: Iŭje (Belarus), Berezne (Ukraine) and Biłgoraj (Poland) this paper examines different local trajectories of repurposing and overwriting Jewish cemeteries. This comparative study goes beyond the top-down policy analysis to include the ways the local population participated in and reacted to these acts of overwriting. We complement the historical consideration with an ethnographic approach that explores how ‘overwritten’ Jewish cemeteries have been used by the local inhabitants, how they featured on their mental maps, what myths and narratives they triggered, and what spatial practices their new status afforded.
Jewish Heritage Revival in the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian Borderlands and the Myth of Multiculturalism
Author(s): Waligórska, Magdalena; Sorkina, Ina; Friedman, Alexander
Editor(s): Bill, Stanley; Lewis, Simon
Date: 2023
Topics: Jewish Revival, Jewish Heritage, Jewish History, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage