Teresa Klimowicz
Studia Judaica, Issue 1 (53), 2024, pp. 135 - 163
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.24.006.19899The purpose of this article is to present the policy toward Jewish youth carried out by the main Jewish institutions operating in Lublin in the postwar period (until 1968), including the local representation of the Central Committee of Polish Jews (CKŻP) (1945–1950) and the Lublin branch of the Social and Cultural Society of Jews in Poland (TSKŻ), as well as the activities of local Zionist youth organizations. The paper presents the organizational structures of the youth-specialized units operating within the aforementioned institutions, the formal and personal changes within them, as well as the local particularities of their activity. The ideological assumptions of these organizations are analyzed and set in the context of the cultural debate over the possibility of rebuilding Jewish life in Poland: nusekh Poyln and yetsiyes Poyln.
Teresa Klimowicz
Studia Judaica, Issue 2 (46), 2020, pp. 309 - 356
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.20.015.13658The article seeks to understand the current condition of the new Jewish cemetery in Lublin, Poland. While it briefly presents the prewar history of the cemetery, the focus of the paper is on the afterwar period 1944–1992. The cemetery becomes a palimpsest of memory researched through activities, documents, media reports, and transformations of the area. The activities of Jewish organizations both in Poland and abroad, as well as activities of the local municipality create an image of both neglect and celebration. The specific situation of the cemetery as a functioning burial area is also explained in the context of politics and memory, as well as the general condition of the Jewish community in communist Poland.