Magdalena Waligorska (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin)

Gebundenes Buch

Cross Purposes

Beschreibung

Cross Purposes is the first cultural history of the cross in modern Poland, deconstructing this key symbol and exploring how it has been deployed in different political battles. Historians of Eastern Europe will find in it a compelling cultural history of Poland's major political upheavals.

Autor

Magdalena Waligórska is a cultural historian and sociologist. Her fields of interest include contemporary Polish and Belarusian history, nationalism and national symbols, Jewish heritage, Jewish/non-Jewish relations, and memory studies. She is currently leading a research group at the Department of European Ethnology of the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has published extensively on nationalism, Jewish culture, and Jewish-non-Jewish relations in journals including East European Politics and Societies, Holocaust Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry. Her first book, Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany, was published in 2013.

Produktdetails

• New Studies in European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9781009230957
• ISBN-10: 1009230956
• Artikelnr.: 64528742