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Jeż A.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

2023

vol. 123

issue 3

48-59

The article discusses the issue of conducting field studies regarding Jewish music in Poland. As we need to account for the total destruction of the old Jewish culture during the second world war and for the lack of continuity of tradition among the few Holocaust Survivors, who are now close to the end of their lives, we can talk about a remembered culture and therefore about studying memory. It is a difficult field, affected by its entanglement in the politics of memory consistently implemented after the war. This resulted in concealment and marginalization of Jewish music by the witnesses and their descendants due to interviewees’ fear or their chosen assimilative strategies. In the case of indirect memories acquired from the Polish informers, even more problems arise caused by old prejudices and cultural strangeness, which can lead to cognitive distortions and avoidance of difficult subjects due to feelings of guilt. It seems that in such circumstances the most important strategy is to study the memory of interviewees in a personal manner by viewing the past as rooted in their present and building their current identity, both individual and group-wise. Apart from narrative studies, it is also still worth to make an effort of exploring through field studies the Jewish motifs in folk music present in performances of Polish musicians even in the pre-war times.

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