Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5735010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janine Holc (0000-0002-7286-900X, Loyola University Maryland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1267-1269 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/rhy182 |
| OpenAlex | W2894988198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, is an astounding achievement not only for its approach to history and museography, which places it among paradigm-shifting institutions such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Museum Berlin, but also for its purposeful, nuanced, and ongoing participation in a highly contested arena of historical inquiry. Opened to visitors in 2014, POLIN is the result of at least ten years of advocacy, led initially by Jerzy Halbersztadt and later Marian Turski. These scholar-advocates overcame numerous obstacles, financial and political, to finally forge a partnership between Warsaw city authorities, Poland’s national government, and external donors. The museum finds itself, in 2018, in the midst of a cultural and political battle. The current government of Poland insists that Poland’s history should be a narrative of Poles, ethnically defined as non-Jewish, historically presented as a unified people battered by conquest, and morally untarnished by complicity in the Shoah. To this end, the ruling Law and Justice Party has passed legislation criminalizing any scholarship that criticizes the Polish “nation,” transformed the country’s government research institute into a nationalist watchdog, and threatened to bring legal charges against prominent historians of Poland’s Jewish past. At the same time, scholars and activists are courageously continuing to discover and publish material documenting the connections between antisemitism, Polish nationalism, and the Nazi-sponsored genocide of European Jewry.
Antisemitism · Archaeology · Genocide · Judaism · Nationalism · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · Central European Literary Studies · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |