Karen Auerbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 5862845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Auerbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Auerbach |
| SIGNATURE | AUERBACH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Nighttime Butterfly
When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did not have to choose between two communities, one Polish and the other Jewish. But by the time Alicja was growing up in the 1890s, it seemed that for some Polish nationalists there was little Jews could do to be accepted unequivocally as Poles. As Alicja entered young womanhood and her father, a prominent publisher, became the target of polemi…
The Social World of a Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
This article examines how evolving conceptions of national belonging affected the everyday lives of assimilating Jewish families in turn-of-the-century Warsaw by reconstructing the social world of a prominent Polish Jewish publisher’s family. Drawing on a diary written by the publisher’s daughter from 1895 to 1902, the article examines factors in both public and private life that influenced the family’s assimilation and conversion to Catholicism.…
Yiddish in the City
In contrast to most national cultures, modern Yiddish culture came into being in geographically disconnected landscapes and without the support of a nation state. Recently, scholars have begun to t
Nusekh poyln? Communism, Publishing, and Paths to Polishness among the Jewish Parents of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue
Holocaust Memory in Polish Scholarship
Commemoration of the Holocaust, scholar Halina Taborska recently argued, has entered a new stage in Poland. For more than a decade after communist rule ended in 1989, politicized slogans remained on many Holocaust memorials and other forms of commemoration, remnants of the period “when politicians and ideologues, the ruling powers and the ruled, artists and administrators accepted a definitive version of events as true and obligatory,” she wrote …
The Fate of a Yiddish Poet in Communist Eastern Europe
Polish Jewish Identity and the 1968 Events in Henryk Grynberg’s Memorbuch
Andrzej Krakowski (dir.), Farewell To My Country
Holocaust Memory in Polish Scholarship
Commemoration of the Holocaust, scholar Halina Taborska recently argued, has entered a new stage in Poland. For more than a decade after communist rule ended in 1989, politicized slogans remained on many Holocaust memorials and other forms of commemoration, remnants of the period “when politicians and ideologues, the ruling powers and the ruled, artists and administrators accepted a definitive version of events as true and obligatory,” she wrote …
Andrzej Krakowski (dir.), Farewell To My Country
Polish Jewish Identity and the 1968 Events in Henryk Grynberg’s Memorbuch
The Fate of a Yiddish Poet in Communist Eastern Europe
Holocaust Memory in Polish Scholarship
Commemoration of the Holocaust, scholar Halina Taborska recently argued, has entered a new stage in Poland. For more than a decade after communist rule ended in 1989, politicized slogans remained on many Holocaust memorials and other forms of commemoration, remnants of the period “when politicians and ideologues, the ruling powers and the ruled, artists and administrators accepted a definitive version of events as true and obligatory,” she wrote …
Nusekh poyln? Communism, Publishing, and Paths to Polishness among the Jewish Parents of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue
Yiddish in the City
In contrast to most national cultures, modern Yiddish culture came into being in geographically disconnected landscapes and without the support of a nation state. Recently, scholars have begun to t
The Social World of a Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
This article examines how evolving conceptions of national belonging affected the everyday lives of assimilating Jewish families in turn-of-the-century Warsaw by reconstructing the social world of a prominent Polish Jewish publisher’s family. Drawing on a diary written by the publisher’s daughter from 1895 to 1902, the article examines factors in both public and private life that influenced the family’s assimilation and conversion to Catholicism.…
The Nighttime Butterfly
When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did not have to choose between two communities, one Polish and the other Jewish. But by the time Alicja was growing up in the 1890s, it seemed that for some Polish nationalists there was little Jews could do to be accepted unequivocally as Poles. As Alicja entered young womanhood and her father, a prominent publisher, became the target of polemi…
History (6 works) · Judaism (6 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works)