The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture

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In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartimelooting of priceless works of art, Bo ena Shallcross focuses on the meaning ofordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangiblevestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcrossdelineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish andPolish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. Theserepresentational strategies are distilled from the writings of Zuzanna Ginczanka, W adys aw Szlengel, Zofia Na kowska, Czes aw Mi osz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, andTadeusz Borowski. Combining close readings of selected texts with criticalinterrogations of a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches to thenature of matter, Shallcross's study broadens the current discourse on the Holocaustby embracing humble and overlooked material objects as they were perceived bywriters of that time.