31/07/2018
New directions in the history of the Jews in the Polish lands
The essays in this volume are expanded versions of papers presented at the conference held in May 2015 to introduce the scholarly community to the permanent exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. As Moshe Rosman shows in his chapter in this book, “Polish–Jewish Historiography 1970–2015: Construction, Consensus, Controversy,” in the last forty-five years, tremendous progress has been made in the study of the Polish Jewish past. The enormously disruptive impact of the Holocaust, Stalinism, and the imposition of Marxist-Leninist norms of historical writing in People’s Poland meant that a new cadre of scholars had to be created from the 1980s and that many topics had to be investigated anew.