"Za Krakowską Bramę rzadko się człowiek wypuszczał..."

"One Would Rarely Venture behind the Krakowska Gate…": Imaginary Boundaries of the Jewish District in Lublin in Memories of Pre‑war Inhabitants Up until the World War II, Jews played an important role in the history of Lublin. At least since the 16th century, Jews had lived in the segr...

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Autor principal: Marta Kubiszyn
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e80e6e0d29144390b96bd3afd415a38b2021-11-27T13:13:30Z"Za Krakowską Bramę rzadko się człowiek wypuszczał..."10.12797/Politeja.16.2019.58.191733-67162391-6737https://doaj.org/article/e80e6e0d29144390b96bd3afd415a38b2019-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/968https://doaj.org/toc/1733-6716https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6737 "One Would Rarely Venture behind the Krakowska Gate…": Imaginary Boundaries of the Jewish District in Lublin in Memories of Pre‑war Inhabitants Up until the World War II, Jews played an important role in the history of Lublin. At least since the 16th century, Jews had lived in the segregated district of Podzamcze, called the “Jewish Town”. Although they started to inhabit the Old Town in 1862 and eventually lived in all parts of Lublin by the interwar period, the former boundaries between the “Jewish” and “Christian” parts of the city remained strongly imprinted in social memory, affecting everyday existence. This article analyses the imaginary boundaries that delineated the “Jewish” district of Lublin in the pre‑World War II period. Drawing on oral testimonies of Christian residents of the city recorded in years 1998‑2005 and archival materials such as articles from local papers, documents of communal institutions, and photos from the 1920s and 1930s, the opposing categories of “ours” and “theirs” have been used to describe social relations in urban space. The author of the article argues that the persistence of segregation in shared memory is expressed not only in visual forms, but it also has sound, smell and taste dimensions. Marta KubiszynKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticleboundariescultural differencesJewish district in LublinPodzamczeLawKPolitical scienceJENPLPoliteja, Vol 16, Iss 1(58) (2019)
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Jewish district in Lublin
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spellingShingle boundaries
cultural differences
Jewish district in Lublin
Podzamcze
Law
K
Political science
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Marta Kubiszyn
"Za Krakowską Bramę rzadko się człowiek wypuszczał..."
description "One Would Rarely Venture behind the Krakowska Gate…": Imaginary Boundaries of the Jewish District in Lublin in Memories of Pre‑war Inhabitants Up until the World War II, Jews played an important role in the history of Lublin. At least since the 16th century, Jews had lived in the segregated district of Podzamcze, called the “Jewish Town”. Although they started to inhabit the Old Town in 1862 and eventually lived in all parts of Lublin by the interwar period, the former boundaries between the “Jewish” and “Christian” parts of the city remained strongly imprinted in social memory, affecting everyday existence. This article analyses the imaginary boundaries that delineated the “Jewish” district of Lublin in the pre‑World War II period. Drawing on oral testimonies of Christian residents of the city recorded in years 1998‑2005 and archival materials such as articles from local papers, documents of communal institutions, and photos from the 1920s and 1930s, the opposing categories of “ours” and “theirs” have been used to describe social relations in urban space. The author of the article argues that the persistence of segregation in shared memory is expressed not only in visual forms, but it also has sound, smell and taste dimensions.
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title "Za Krakowską Bramę rzadko się człowiek wypuszczał..."
title_short "Za Krakowską Bramę rzadko się człowiek wypuszczał..."
title_full "Za Krakowską Bramę rzadko się człowiek wypuszczał..."
title_fullStr "Za Krakowską Bramę rzadko się człowiek wypuszczał..."
title_full_unstemmed "Za Krakowską Bramę rzadko się człowiek wypuszczał..."
title_sort "za krakowską bramę rzadko się człowiek wypuszczał..."
publisher Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing
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