@article{476e8e27-7eab-45b3-a3bb-f8f23a2b1d3b, author = {Moshe Rosman}, title = {Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the New Polish-Jewish Metahistory}, journal = {Studia Judaica}, volume = {2013}, number = {Nr 2 (32)}, year = {2013}, issn = {1506-9729}, pages = {47-75},keywords = {}, abstract = {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.}, doi = {}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-judaica/article/categorically-jewish-distinctly-polish-the-museum-of-the-history-of-polish-jews-and-the-new-polish-jewish-metahistory} }