Over the last decades, studies on cultural memory have taken a "spectral turn" and have explored the potential of haunting metaphors for addressing past instances of violence that affect present cultural realities. This book contributes to the discussions on haunting by enquiring into its culturally and historically located modality: the emergence of the figure of the Jewish ghost in contemporary Polish popular culture, literature and critical art. Gathering contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, it locates this new interest in Jewish ghosts on the map of other Polish (and Jewish) ghostologies and seeks to explore their cultural and political functions in the Polish post-Holocaust imaginaire.

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Zuzanna Dziuban (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and Freie University of Berlin. Her research focus is on memory studies, dead body studies, and the afterlives of the Holocaust.

Besprochen in:H-Soz-u-Kult, 03.08.2020, Jörg Skriebeleit

»Der Mehrwert des Sammelbandes liegt darin, dass er die Ambivalenz aufzeigt, mit der das polnisch-jüdische Verhältnis noch immer betrachtet wird.«

»The added value of the anthology lies in the fact that itdemonstrates the ambivalence with which the Polish-Jewish relationship is still viewed.«