Covering the period following the collapse of communism, the unification of Germany, and Poland's accession to the EU, this collection focuses on the interdependencies of German, Polish, and Jewish collective memories and their dialogic, transnational character, showing the collective nature of postmemory and the pressures that shape it.

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KRISTIN KOPPAssistant Professor of German in the Department of German & Russian Studies at the University of Missouri, USA. ****
JOANNA NIZYNSKAAssociate Professor of Polish Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, USA.

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Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation: Germany and Poland's Post-Memory after 1989; K.Kopp & J.Nizynska PART I: THE POLITICS OF POSTMEMORY Shadows of Memory in Polish-German Relations (19892005); W.Jarzabek History by Decree? The Commission of Historians of the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland 1956-1990; S.Guth 'The Law Alleviates Concerns': Legal Dimensions of Polish-German Reconciliation; P.Lutomski Eclipsing the Polish-German Past to Construct a Post-Socialist Polish Memory-Culture; H.Hein-Kircher PART II: THE GRAND NARRATIVES OF POSTMEMORY When Poland was Home: Nostalgic Returns in Grass and Wolf; A.Bammer Declaring War: Attitudes Towards the Years 1939-1945 in the Literature of the Post-1990s; P.Czaplinski Liberation from Memory: Memory, Post-Memory, or Subverted Memory inWhat Does the Messenger Girl Doby Foks & Libera; M.Zaleski Interviews with Jan T. Gross (2007/2009); J.Labov & J.T.Gross Genre and Intervention: Reflections on the Reception of Neighbors and Fear; J.Labov Relocating Auschwitz: Affective Relations in the Jewish-German-Polish Troika; E.Lehrer The 'Lodzermensch': From Cultural Contamination to Marketable Multiculturalism; W.W.Chu 'We are Prussia Today': Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State; G.Thum