Abstract
This concluding chapter reflects on whether and to what extent the Jewish turn is a distinctively Polish phenomenon. It extends the book's findings to comparisons beyond Poland and articulates the theoretical contributions of the study to cultural sociology, the sociology of nationalism, and memory studies. The book shows how a symbolic category—in this case the Jew, or Jewishness—can serve as a foil against which an exclusive national identity is constructed, as well as the means through which an inclusive, expanded national identity can be articulated. It demonstrates the ways and the extent to which dominant modes of imagining the nation shape not only formal membership rules such as citizenship but also symbolic membership in the national community. Most importantly, as the chapter states, the book invites readers to consider the limits of testifying to vanished or diminished communities.
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