Mury i szczeliny
Przestrzenie getta warszawskiego
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translation: Walls and Cracks - Spaces of the Warsaw Ghetto
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The space of the Warsaw Ghetto, enclosed within the walls, was undoubtedly oppressive, designed to economically drain and physically destroy its inhabitants. In her monograph, Justyna Majewska shows how an abstract space, initially existing only in the Nazis' imagination, is transformed into an experienced place. The author attempts to understand this experience, to recreate the perspective of people who were crowded within the walls - how did they see and feel them? Reflections on the proxemic dimension of the ghetto, based on the analysis of public space (i.e. the street and the tenement house) and private space (the apartment), are supplemented here with descriptions using categories such as sound and smell. The book, which is a revised version of the doctoral thesis written under the supervision of Prof. Barbara Engelking and defended in 2022 at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, also contains innovative findings on the process of exchanging apartments between Jews and Poles.
