Topos of the Jewish treasure in postwar Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian shtetls

While the fascination with ‘Jewish gold’ and the belief that Jews possess riches long predates the Holocaust, it was the systematic dispossession of Jews during World War II that fueled the myth of ‘Jewish treasures’ to an unprecedented extent. Based on ethnographic field research in six former shte...

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Subtitles:After the Void: The Afterlife of the Shtetl in Postwar Poland, Belarus and Ukraine
Main Author: Waligórska, Magdalena 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Holocaust studies
Year: 2025, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 498-516
Further subjects:B Genocidal expropriation policies
B Holocaust
B Myth
B plunder
B treasures
B ‘Jewish gold’
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