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All those rumors occupy people's thoughts...’. On the relationship between rumors and knowledge about the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto

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Ferenc Piotrowska M.

Rocznik Antropologii Historii

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2018

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issue 11, Kulturowa historia wiedzy

139-158

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This article analyzes the relationship between rumors about the Holocaust and the process of the formation of knowledge about the Shoah among ordinary residents and public opinion in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Rumor is defined here as a specific medium, encumbered with a high risk of distortion, but still sometimes carrying true information. I analyzed war-time personal documents and testimonies of survivors. I focused in particular on rumors regarding the extermination of Jews in other towns and letters that were supposedlyreaching the Warsaw ghetto from residents deported purportedly to the East, but who wereactually murdered in the Treblinka death camp. To interpret this phenomenon, I used theoretical approaches from the social sciences (awareness context theory and symbolic interactionism theory). I stressed the impact of the existential experience of Shoah victims on their ability to accept the news of mass murder. Special attention was paid to the process of pushing aside thoughts about the possibility of one’s own death.

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Penyamun : postava cizince v současném sumbském folkloru

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Kábová A.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2014

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vol. 101

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issue 4

385-401

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Penyamun is a central figure of rumors of public construction sacriface rumors and head-hunting rumors that have been recorded in Southeastern Asia since beginning of the 20th century. The aim of the present article is to analyze the present-day form of such rumors on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia. All rumors discussed herein focus on the figure of penyamun, a foreigner yearning for body parts or blood of the inhabitants of Sumba.

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Gronowski D.

Łódzkie Studia Teologiczne

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2016

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vol. 25

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issue 1

59-69

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Gossip is one of many important ways of communication in today’s world. It is a phenomenon that evolved in the era of oral communication and played a significant role in the process of consolidating the knowledge in community, long before writing was invented. Gossip is a natural and instinctive activity, both in terms of its spreading and listening. The advent of mass media added a new dimension to the phenomenon. Now there is also “institutionalized gossip” which is journalism or, speaking more generally, the activity of media. Gossip is an ambivalent phenomenon. Although it is associated with many negative aspects, it also plays an important social role, promotes the development of interpersonal relationships, development of group identity and norms, it is also an element of informal social control. We need to take care so that it would not go beyond certain norms, however, it should not be simply seen as something malicious.

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All those rumors occupy people's thoughts...’. On the relationship between rumors and knowledge about the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto

Penyamun : postava cizince v současném sumbském folkloru

Plotkowanie jako fenomen komunikacyjny