East European Jewish Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 2-3 (2015)

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“New Jewish Museums in Post-Communist Europe”

Editorial

Editorial
Why Jewish Museums?
David Shneer & Anna Shternshis
Pages: 151-152
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Introduction

Introduction
New Jewish museums in post-communist Europe
Olga Gershenson & Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Pages: 153-157
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Articles

Article
The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow: Judaism for the masses
Olga Gershenson
Pages: 158-173
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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The shtetl in the museum: representing Jews in the eras of Stalin and Putin
Deborah Yalen
Pages: 174-189
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Inside the Museum: Torahs, Tanks, and Tech: Moscow's Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
Benjamin Nathans
Pages: 190-199
Published online: 18 Jun 2015
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The Square of Polish Innocence: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and its symbolic topography
Elżbieta Janicka
Pages: 200-214
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Inside the Museum: Curating between hope and despair: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Pages: 215-235
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Staging Traumatic Memory: Competing Narratives of State Violence in Post-Communist Hungarian Museums
Anna Manchin
Pages: 236-251
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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From Restored Past to Unsettled Present: New Challenges for Jewish Museums in East Central Europe
Katalin Deme
Pages: 252-260
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Inside the Museum: When Orthodox synagogue meets museum: the New Jewish Community Museum in Bratislava
Maroš Borský
Pages: 261-263
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Reportage: Beyond Prague's “Precious Legacy”: post-communist Jewish exhibits and synagogue restorations in the Czech Republic
Ruth Ellen Gruber
Pages: 264-278
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Reportage: Romania and its Jewish museums
Dan-Ionuţ Julean
Pages: 279-289
Published online: 18 Jun 2015
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Inside the Museum: Nothing is going to change? Adaptation of the Jewish Pre-Burial House in Gliwice
Natalia Romik
Pages: 290-301
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Inside the Museum: Galicia Jewish Museum: Re-defining the role of the Jewish museum in a post-communist Poland
Jakub Nowakowski
Pages: 302-304
Published online: 09 Jun 2015
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Reportage: The Bukharan-Jewish Museum in Samarkand: memory preservation of a rapidly-diminishing community
Zeev Levin
Pages: 305-311
Published online: 23 Jun 2015
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Reportage: Small exhibits, major steps: four post-Soviet Jewish museums
Anastasia Felcher
Pages: 312-320
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Insert Inside the Museum: The Jewish Museum of Chișinău (Kishinev)
Irina Shikhova
Pages: 321-322
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Inside the Museum: The Museum of Jewish History in Russia, Moscow
Maria Kaspina & Hillel Kazovsky
Pages: 323-325
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Inside the Museum: A Museum in a museum—the experience of exhibiting Jewish collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg
Shimon Iakerson & Marina Shcherbakova
Pages: 326-329
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Book reviews

Book Review
Archa paměti: Cesta pražského židovského muzea pohnutým 20. stoletím [The Ark of Memory: The Prague Jewish Museum's Journey through the Turbulent Twentieth Century]
Cathleen M. Giustino
Pages: 330-332
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory
Jeffrey Shandler
Pages: 332-335
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Festung Warschau [Fortress Warsaw]
Jean-Charles Szurek
Pages: 335-337
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Stacja Muranów [Muranów Station]
Ewa Klekot
Pages: 337-339
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Holocaust Memory Reframed. Museums and the Challenges of Representation
Richard I. Cohen
Pages: 340-341
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Constructing Memory: Architectural Narratives of Holocaust Museums
Brigitte Sion
Pages: 341-343
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe
Aniko Szucs
Pages: 343-346
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place
Stephanie Shosh Rotem
Pages: 346-348
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
Janek Gryta
Pages: 348-350
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe
Joanna Beata Michlic
Pages: 350-352
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland
Elissa Sampson
Pages: 352-354
Published online: 20 Nov 2015
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