Displays of Belonging
Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891?1941
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Product details:
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Date of Publication 15 June 2025
- ISBN 9781501781544
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages294 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 907 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 Halftones, black & white; 1 Maps; 2 Line drawings, black & white 700
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Long description:
Displays of Belonging illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists, who sought to preserve the treasures of the Jewish past while demonstrating Jewish belonging on Polish soil. As Jews comfortable in the Polish language and within Polish artistic and academic society, they saw themselves as intermediaries between less-integrated Jews and the Polish cultural elite.
At the turn of the century, Jewish ethnographers and museum creators staked their claim to belonging to the civic nation though the display of Jewish folk art, fine art, and Judaica. After the First World War, the nearly three million Jews in the Second Polish Republic were suddenly challenged with finding a place for themselves in a state that increasingly defined itself as a creation of the ethnic Polish nation, to which Jews, by many accounts, did not belong.
By tracing emergent documentation and display practices in partitioned Poland and in the interwar Second Polish Republic, Sarah Ellen Zarrow offers a better understanding of how integrated Jews identified with Polish culture and history and with non-Jewish Poles, and how they conceived of, negotiated, and argued their collective place within Poland. This is not a case of assimilation, nor of acculturation, but rather of displaying a parallel culture that was at once similar and yet distinctive.
Displays of Belonging offers a nuanced understanding of the multiplicity of ways in which Jews in Poland saw their present and dreamed of their future. It places Jewish ethnographic practice and art collection within a Polish context, and sheds light on ways in which ideas about belonging and national identity were negotiated in the space of museums.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Jewish Collectors and the Political Imagination
1. Warsaw's Jews "Discover" the Provinces
2. Jewish Museums as Displays of Integration
3. The Jewish Museum as Polish and World Museum
4. Jewish Museums without Walls
5. Museums Open their Doors Wide
Conclusion: The Uses (and Abuses) of Jewish Collection and Display
