Violence as Political Experience Among Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland

2021 ◽  
pp. 243-270
Author(s):  
Kamil Kijek
Keyword(s):  
Political Experience ◽  
Interwar Poland ◽  
Jewish Youth

Life, Literature: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Poland ◽  
Jewish Youth

Taming the Shtetl

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kupfert Heller
Keyword(s):  
Small Town ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Interwar Poland ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
Hearts And Minds

This chapter looks at the efforts of Betar's leaders in Warsaw to capture the hearts and minds of Jewish youth in provincial towns across central and eastern Poland. Armed with long-standing stereotypes about shtetl life, Betar leaders were certain that bringing “modernity” and “progress” to these towns would mobilize provincial youth for the Zionist cause. The chapter studies the YIVO (Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut) autobiography collection, as well as correspondence between Betar's headquarters in Warsaw and its small-town outposts, to reveal the tensions that arose between these urban activists and the young Jews they sought to transform. Providing a vivid account of Jewish life in small towns across interwar Poland, it exposes the vast gap between the ideological vision of Betar's leaders and the political beliefs and experiences of its members.

Life, Literature: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Poland ◽  
Jewish Youth

ROUPAS COMO CORPOS: O AGENCIAMENTO POLÍTICO DO VESTUÁRIO POR CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI / Clothes as bodies: the political agency of clothing by Christian Boltanski

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (39) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Angélica Adverse
Keyword(s):  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
Central Idea ◽  
Political Experience

O artigo aborda o agenciamento das roupas no trabalho do artista Christian Boltanski. Partindo da dimensão do poder dos corpos têxteis, analisaremos como as roupas investem-se das palavras emudecidas dos corpos ausentes, constituindo-se como alegoria do testemunho e do documento histórico. A ideia central é pensar como as roupas explicitam a aniquilação humana provocada pelos regimes políticos totalitários. Analisaremos como as instalações Prendre la Parole (2005) e Personnes(2010) desvelam a presença-ausência da vida-morte na experiência política do discurso têxtil.  Palavras-chave: Roupas; Corpos; Agenciamento; Política; Memória.AbstractThe article addresses the agency of clothes in the work of the artist Christian Boltanski. Starting from the dimension of the power of the textile bodies, we will analyze how the clothes invest themselves with the muted words of the absent bodies, constituting themselves as an allegory of the testimony and of the historical document. The central idea is to think about how clothes make explicit human annihilation brought about by totalitarian political regimes. We will analyze how the installations Prendre la Parole (2005) and Personnes (2010) reveal the presence-absence of life-death in the political experience of textile discourse.Keywords: Clothes; Bodies; Agency; Politics; Memory. 

Daniella Doron, Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xv + 309 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
Jews In France

This chapter reviews the book Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation (2015), by Daniella Doron. Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France examines how the French Jews shifted from immediate relief and rehabilitation activities following the Holocaust to longer-term efforts aimed at establishing communal stability and unity. Doron highlights the important role played by Jewish youth in these efforts, arguing that they can serve as a lens through which to study larger concerns such as the future of Jews in France, the reconstruction of families, and ideas about national identity in the reestablished republic. Doron shows that there were competing visions for reconstruction and that hope for the future was often complicated by anxiety and an underlying sense of crisis.

“This Purgatory Is Useful”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Padraic Kenney
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Common Activity ◽  
Robben Island

Prisoners and their supporters often refer to the experience as a “prison university.” Time in prison among people of the same movement gave prisoners the opportunity to learn and to develop politically. Prisoners who might never have met outside grew together as they studied and shared knowledge. Disparities of knowledge and political experience made communal education possible. Everything from mathematics to foreign languages to the basics of ideology brought prisoners together in a common activity. Prisoners on Robben Island used the management of sports to hone their administrative abilities. IRA men in Long Kesh developed new approaches to the fight against British rule in Northern Ireland.

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