Zarrow, Sarah,

Displays of belonging : Polish Jewish collecting and museums, 1891-1941 / Sarah Ellen Zarrow. - pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jewish collectors and the political imagination -- Warsaw's Jews "discover" the provinces -- Jewish museums as displays of Integration -- The Jewish Museum as Polish and world museum -- Jewish museums without walls -- Museums open their doors wide -- The uses (and abuses) of Jewish collection and display.

"This book investigates the social and political role of local Jewish museums in Polish lands and in independent Poland from the 1890s up to the Holocaust, as well as Jewish ethnographic initiatives"--

9781501781544


Jewish museums--History--Poland--19th century.
Jewish museums--History--Poland--20th century.
Jews, Polish.
Jews--Civilization.

DS134.55 / .Z36 2025