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Rumor Culture among Warsaw Jews under Nazi Occupation

A World of Catastrophe Reenchanted

Bibliographic Data

ID2757807
AuthorsGoldberg, Goldberg Goldberg (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume21
Issue3
Pages91
Publication date2016-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJewish Social Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/jewisocistud.21.3.04
OpenAlexW2497142918
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited6

An oft-forgotten fact about Warsaw Jews during World War II is that until they were deported to Treblinka, they lived in an urban space. In order to understand the wartime life of Warsaw Jews, then, we must investigate the new modes of urbanism that evolved in those years. This article seeks to investigate the new modes of communication that emerged during the war as a result of the transformed Warsaw Jewish public sphere. More specifically, it examines the new culture of rumors that emerged and prevailed during that time and that replaced the highly literate pre-war Jewish public sphere of Warsaw. The first section of the article describes various aspects of this phenomenon, and the second section, which constitutes the bulk of the article, focuses on rumor culture's semiotics and hermeneutical procedures. In so doing, this article uncovers a fundamental social practice of the time, enabling us to scrutinize and map Warsaw Jews' wartime mentalité (popular beliefs, mindsets, and "mental" processes), which was completely transformed under Nazi occupation

Archaeology · Epistemology · German · Judaism · Media studies · Nazism · Order (exchange · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Rumor · Semiotics · Sociology · Urbanism · World War II · Central European Literary Studies · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies

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Citation span2019 - 2026 (8)
Highly citedNo

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