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The City and the Self: Narratives of Spatial Belonging among Austrian Jews
Author(s): Bunzl, Matti
Date: 1996
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Memory
Abstract: JEWS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIA construct their ethnic selves as a mimetic continuation of a tropological field circumscribed by an imagined moment of Jewish efflorescence in fin‐de‐siècle Vienna. This moment continues to imprint a metonymic set of cultural values on Vienna, affording the signification of Jewish selfhood in opposition to an Austrian (non–Jewish) majority. The Jewish selves thereby constructed, in turn serve as rallying points for an affirmative outlook on Jewish life in contemporary Austria.
“If You Build it They Will Come”: Recreating an Historic Jewish District in Post–Communist Kraków
Author(s): Kugelmass, Jack; Orla–Bukowska, Annamaria
Date: 1998
Topics: Jewish Neighbourhoods, North African Jewry, Cities and Suburbs, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: As Poland completes the privatization of its economy and attracts increasing foreign investment, a district such as the Kazimierz section of Krakow faces a new dilemma–how best to regulate new construction and renovations in order to preserve its historic character. The largest intact and unrestored former-Jewish quarter in Europe, the area has considerable international significance, and particularly now as foreign Jews visit Poland in increasing numbers searching for the remains of pre-war Jewish life while Christian and Jewish Poles seek some way to restore the past, to undo the ravages of Nazi occupation and forty years of communism.