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“I Don’t Know if They Really Hated Us or if It Was for Fun”:Memories of Anti-Jewish Violence Perpetrated by Students of the Catholic University of Lublin in Oral Histories from the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre

Dziaczkowska, Magdalena LU orcid (2024) In Studia Judaica 53(1). p.77-103
Abstract
This article explores the narratives describing the interactions between students of the Catholic University of Lublin and the local Jewish population. It analyzes oral histories from the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” archive using the theoretical framework of intergroup contact theory, intersectionality, and the concept of contact zone. The study presents the accounts thematically, according to the circumstances of the violent behavior, and notes its gendered nature-it was perpetrated mostly by Catholic men. Moreover, it seeks an explanation for these situations and, finally, points to the theory of memory of meanings as a helpful interpretative tool.
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keywords
Jewish-Catholic relations, Poland, Oral history, violence, Polish Jews
in
Studia Judaica
volume
53
issue
1
pages
27 pages
publisher
Polskie Towarzystwo Studiow Zydowskich
external identifiers
  • scopus:85202169369
ISSN
1506-9729
DOI
10.4467/24500100STJ.24.004.19897
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English
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yes
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4940219f-3418-442d-b6fb-b11d1e4687ab
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2024-09-18 20:38:17
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