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Social genealogy of the Polish intelligentsiaThe text is a reprint of the second chapter of Józef Chałasiński’s essay Social genealogy of the Polish intelligentsia, originally published in 1946. Społeczna genealogia inteligencji polskiejTekst jest przedrukiem drugiego rozdziału eseju Józefa Chałasińskiego pt. Społeczna genealogia inteligencji polskiej, pierwotnie opublikowanego w 1946 roku.
“It’s not a matter of choice.” Aleksander Smolar interviewed by Konrad MatyjaszekKonrad Matyjaszek’s interview with Aleksander Smolar focuses on the contemporary Polish intelligentsia, identified as a social group and a social milieu, and on this group’s self-image produced in relation to antisemitism, understood here both as a set of violence-based public activities and practices, and as an excluding...
The intelligentsia and the Holocaust. Dispersing the imageThis paper in the field of cultural memory studies addresses the workings of memory, or more precisely – a politics of memory whereby the image of the intelligentsia and its role in the Holocaust vanishes from the collective consciousness. The relative visibility of peasants denouncing Jews, murdering them and plundering their property is accompanied...
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