Autorentext
Magdalena Waligórska is a cultural historian and sociologist. Her fields of interest include contemporary Polish and Belarusian history, nationalism and national symbols, Jewish heritage, Jewish/non-Jewish relations, and memory studies. She is currently leading a research group at the Department of European Ethnology of the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has published extensively on nationalism, Jewish culture, and Jewish-non-Jewish relations in journals including East European Politics and Societies, Holocaust Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry. Her first book, Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany, was published in 2013.

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. The ascendance of the cross; 2. Colonization in the shadow of the cross; 3. Female and furious: the invention of the 'defense of the cross'; 4. Solidarity's sacred politics; 5. The transformation crusades; 6. Religious populism and its opponents; Conclusion.