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Since the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by non-Jewish Poles with a passionate new interest in all things Jewish. Klezmer music, Jewish-style restaurants, and festivals of Jewish culture have become popular, while new museums, memorials, Jewish studies programs, and Holocaust research centres reflect soul-searching about Polish-Jewish relations before, during, and after the Holocaust. In Resurrecting the Jew, Geneviève Zubrzycki examines this revival and asks what it means to try to bring Jewish culture back to life in a country where 3 million Jews were murdered and where only about 10,000 Jews now live.
You can buy Professor Zubrzycki’s book, Resurrecting the Jew, with a 30% discount. Just visit: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691237237/resurrecting-the-jew and use the code P321 at checkout before 31 May 2023.
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Geneviève Zubrzycki is Professor of Sociology and faculty associate at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author and editor of several books, including the award-winning The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland. Her newest book, Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival analyses the renewal of Jewish life in that country since the fall of communism, and non-Jewish Poles fascination with Jewish culture.