Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust

Table of contents

• Imaginary Neighbors i
• Title Page iii
• Rodzicom v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Imaginary Neighbors xi
• Introduction Imaginary Neighbors toward An Ethical Community 1
• I- History and Memory 19
• 1- The Dark Past Polish-Jewish Relations in the Shadow of the Holocaust 21
• 2- Jedwabne History as a Fetish 40
• 3- Living with Antisemitism 64
• 4- Notes for a Grave under Snow 67
• 5- Bearing False Witness? [Vicarious] Jewish Identity and the Politics of Affinity 84
• 6- St. Korczak of Warsaw 110
• II- Literary Encounters 135
• 7- The Holocaust, Jedwabne, and the Measure of Time 137
• 8- The Ceremony (Excerpts from a Play) 149
• 9- It Began with Pleasantries 182
• 10- Imagined Topographies Visions of Poland in Writings by Descendants of Survivors 187
• 11- Figures of Memory Polish Holocaust Literature of the [Second Generation] 205
• III- Religion, Ethics, Politics 223
• 12- A Breakthrough in the Teachings of the Church on Jews and Judaism 225
• 13- The Vision and Language of the Other Jedwabne versus the Auschwitz Convent Controversy 236
• 14- Forgiving, Witnessing, and [Polish Shame] 253
• 15- [Who Is My Neighbor?] Ethics under Duress 275
• 16- Melancholic Nationalism and the Pathologies of Commemorating the Holocaust in Poland 301
• Contributor 327
• Index 331

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