Janek Gryta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4433427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janek Gryta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janek |
| FAMILY NAME | Gryta |
| SIGNATURE | GRYTA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8804-4205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forgotten? Holocaust Monuments and Jewish Activism in 1960s Poland
The present paper focuses on the early 1960s and spotlights efforts to commemorate the Holocaust in south-eastern Poland. Members of the religious Congregation and the lay Social-Cultural Association of Polish Jews as well as transnational activists, created a network of memorials. Encompassing local sites of killings, those small-scale memorials challenged the Communist authorities’ programme of commemoration. They marked villages, towns and cit…
Unsettled Heritage
Journal Article Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust Yechiel Weizman Get access Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust, Yechiel Weizman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), 306 pp., hardcover $45.00, ebook $29.99. Janek Gryta Janek Gryta University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this auth…
Regional professionals, American activists, and the Iron Curtain
In the search for the roots of the cosmopolitanization of Polish memory in the first decade of the twenty-first century, this article looks past the chronological boundaries of post-socialist Poland. It identifies regional memory professionals as the key “scale” in transnational memory work. It demonstrates that the present state of Jewish sites of Kraków is the outcome of transnational work conducted from as early as the 1970s, and it is the eff…
Creating a Cosmopolitan Past
The present article tests the limits of cosmopolitan memory. It spotlights a unique case study, the permanent exhibition in Schindler's Factory in Krakw, Poland, shaped by a group of local curators and politicians, as well as representatives of foreign memorial institutions and supranational NGOs. The thrust to create a cosmopolitan narrative came from Polish curators, but their vision was curbed by both a local politician and the head of a globa…
Generational succession, culture, and politics
Memory studies have often looked to the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain as the principal mediators of collective memory for the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Scholars have often assumed the primacy of political factors in memory work with Cold War politics understood as shaping collective memory both West and East of the Iron Curtain. The present article proposes to problematize these assumptions. While not negating t…
Ragged Houses and Candlelight. The Romance of the Jewish Past and Memory Work in the Last Decade of the Communist Rule in Kraków, Poland
It has often been proposed that the Jewish past of Poland had been largely forgotten and that first popular commemorations of the destroyed minority took place after the fall of Communism in 1989. Challenging this chronology the present article examines the commemorations in Kraków, the cultural capital of Poland, in the 1980s. It analyses the work of local Jewish museum and preservation projects developed during the decade and establishes that t…
Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
Ragged Houses and Candlelight. The Romance of the Jewish Past and Memory Work in the Last Decade of the Communist Rule in Kraków, Poland
It has often been proposed that the Jewish past of Poland had been largely forgotten and that first popular commemorations of the destroyed minority took place after the fall of Communism in 1989. Challenging this chronology the present article examines the commemorations in Kraków, the cultural capital of Poland, in the 1980s. It analyses the work of local Jewish museum and preservation projects developed during the decade and establishes that t…
Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
Ragged Houses and Candlelight. The Romance of the Jewish Past and Memory Work in the Last Decade of the Communist Rule in Kraków, Poland
It has often been proposed that the Jewish past of Poland had been largely forgotten and that first popular commemorations of the destroyed minority took place after the fall of Communism in 1989. Challenging this chronology the present article examines the commemorations in Kraków, the cultural capital of Poland, in the 1980s. It analyses the work of local Jewish museum and preservation projects developed during the decade and establishes that t…
Generational succession, culture, and politics
Memory studies have often looked to the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain as the principal mediators of collective memory for the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Scholars have often assumed the primacy of political factors in memory work with Cold War politics understood as shaping collective memory both West and East of the Iron Curtain. The present article proposes to problematize these assumptions. While not negating t…
Creating a Cosmopolitan Past
The present article tests the limits of cosmopolitan memory. It spotlights a unique case study, the permanent exhibition in Schindler's Factory in Krakw, Poland, shaped by a group of local curators and politicians, as well as representatives of foreign memorial institutions and supranational NGOs. The thrust to create a cosmopolitan narrative came from Polish curators, but their vision was curbed by both a local politician and the head of a globa…
Regional professionals, American activists, and the Iron Curtain
In the search for the roots of the cosmopolitanization of Polish memory in the first decade of the twenty-first century, this article looks past the chronological boundaries of post-socialist Poland. It identifies regional memory professionals as the key “scale” in transnational memory work. It demonstrates that the present state of Jewish sites of Kraków is the outcome of transnational work conducted from as early as the 1970s, and it is the eff…
Unsettled Heritage
Journal Article Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust Yechiel Weizman Get access Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust, Yechiel Weizman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), 306 pp., hardcover $45.00, ebook $29.99. Janek Gryta Janek Gryta University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this auth…
Forgotten? Holocaust Monuments and Jewish Activism in 1960s Poland
The present paper focuses on the early 1960s and spotlights efforts to commemorate the Holocaust in south-eastern Poland. Members of the religious Congregation and the lay Social-Cultural Association of Polish Jews as well as transnational activists, created a network of memorials. Encompassing local sites of killings, those small-scale memorials challenged the Communist authorities’ programme of commemoration. They marked villages, towns and cit…
History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (4 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (4 works)