%0 Journal Article
%T Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish: The Museum
	of the History of Polish Jews and the New Polish-Jewish Metahistory
%A Rosman, Moshe
%J Studia Judaica
%V 2013
%N Nr 2 (32)
%P 47-75

%@ 1506-9729
%D 2013
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-judaica/artykul/categorically-jewish-distinctly-polish-the-museum-of-the-history-of-polish-jews-and-the-new-polish-jewish-metahistory
%X 
	The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a daring enterprise that symbolizes the new Poland. It relates the story of the Jewish experience in Poland in a way that reflects the metahistory implicit in Polish-Jewish historiography written over the generation. The main points of this metahistory are: for most of its history Poland was a multiethnic and multicultural country; Poland’s Jews did not live in “shtetl-land” but Poland, being not only in the country but of it; a story of achievement and stability punctuated by crisis and persecution, Polish-Jewish history can be described as categorically Jewish and distinctly Polish; there is the Polish-Jewish history in the nineteenth century; the Jewish experience in Poland was not one of unrelenting antisemitism and the Shoah was not the culmination of Polish-Jewish history. The Museum also alludes to various historical controversies.