Abstract
Something quite peculiar has happened recently with Holocaust memory in Polish culture. Art and popular culture have witnessed a literal return from the dead of the murdered Jews to contemporary Poland. Ghosts, phantoms and zombies come to haunt peaceful Polish citizens in such novels as Pensjonat (The Guest-house) by Piotr Pazinski from 2012, theatre plays including Muranooo directed by Lilach Dekel-Avneri from 2012, photography titled Duchy (Ghosts), a special issue of the journal Krytyka Polityczna edited by Yael Bartana from 2011, and movies such as Poktosie (The Aftermath) by Wladyslaw Pasikowski from 2012. In this chapter, I will explore this recent phenomenon by focusing on the most literal and radical uses of the motive of this comeback in Igor Ostachowicz’s 2012 novel Noc zywych Żydow (Night of the Living Jews) and locate it within a broader context of Polish contemporary culture.
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