Describing Who? ― Poland in Photographs by Jewish Artists

Auron-G<’o>rska presents students, academics, and researchers with an investigation of the significance of photographs taken in contemporary Poland by Israeli, French, and American photographers of Jewish identity. She argues over fifteen chapters that while visual representations of Poland and the Polish people may appear to be atemporal, they are neither apolitical nor ahistorical. The author asserts, instead, that they are mitigated by a culturally conditioned construct that serves to maintain the Polish memory of the Shoah, war trauma, and by post-war politics. Joanna Auron-G<’o>rska is an independent scholar and artist. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Joanna Auron-Gorska is a scholar and practitioner of Jewish-Polish relations, a writer, an artist, a photographer, an interpreter, a translator and a lecturer. Her main interests include Polish and Jewish identity, visual representation, cultural studies and interfaith dialogue.