On the Banality of Forgetting: Tracing the Memory of Jewish Culture in Poland

About Dariusz NiedwiedzkiJacek NowakSawomir Kapralski

Jacek Nowak is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University Krakow. His teaching research and publications focus on identity issues ethnic and religious minorities. Recently he is working on the phenomenon of collective memory. He has a good knowledge of the multi-ethnic composition of East-Central Europe. Sawomir Kapralski is Professor of Sociology at the Pedagogical University of Kraków. His research focuses on theory of culture nationalism ethnicity and identity collective memory antisemitism and the Holocaust and the Roma communities in Europe. Dariusz Niedwiedzki is Professor of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University Kraków. For over 20 years he has carried out research in the fields of identity migration social memory ethnic conflict social and cultural changes in integrating Europe and the link between politics and culture.