{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Jewish Studies","slug":"new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327","podcast_index_feed_id":313327,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/0y1v4qsq","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/religion-faith/jewish-studies/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/6e52f8b7-498b-46e9-a3df-a405f10ed6e5/57ca3477-a6ff-41a1-93a4-8363460c7ca5/3000x3000/60cca3664f8db6504a688566b559fc80.png?aid=rss_feed","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":600,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T16:17:40.869396+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327"},"episode":{"title":"Sarah Ellen Zarrow, \"Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941\" (Cornell UP, 2025.)","slug":"sarah-ellen-zarrow-displays-of-belonging-polish-jewish-collecting-and-museums-1891-1941-cornell-up-2025","published_at":"2026-08-14T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/sarah-ellen-zarrow-displays-of-belonging-polish-jewish-collecting-and-museums-1891-1941-cornell-up-2025","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327","url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/religion-faith/jewish-studies/","audio_url":"https://injector.simplecastaudio.com/6e52f8b7-498b-46e9-a3df-a405f10ed6e5/episodes/accb1e04-c661-4a26-96eb-0d3182392ffe/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=6e52f8b7-498b-46e9-a3df-a405f10ed6e5&awEpisodeId=accb1e04-c661-4a26-96eb-0d3182392ffe&feed=0y1v4qsq","summary":"Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941 (Cornell UP, 2025.) illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists, who sought to preserve the treasures of the Jewish past while demonstrating Jewish belonging on Polish soil. As Jews comfortable in the Polish language and within Polish artistic and academic society, they saw themselves as intermediaries between less-integrated Jews and the Polish cultural elite. At the turn of the century, Jewish ethnographers and museum creators staked their claim to belonging to the civic nation though the display of Jewish folk art, fine art, and Judaica. After the First World War, the nearly three million Jews in the Second Polish Republic were suddenly challenged with finding a place for themselves in a state that increasingly defined itself as a creation of the ethnic Polish nation, to which Jews, by many accounts, did not belong. By tracing emergent documentation and display practices in partitioned Poland and in the interwar Second Polish Republic, Sarah Ellen Zarrow offers a better understanding of how integrated Jews identified with Polish culture and history and with non-Jewish Poles, and how they conceived of, negotiated, and argued their collective place within Poland. This is not a case of assimilation, nor of acculturation, but rather of displaying a parallel culture that was at once similar and yet distinctive. Displays of Belonging offers a nuanced understanding of the multiplicity of ways in which Jews in Poland saw their present and dreamed of their future. It places Jewish ethnographic practice and art collection within a Polish context, and sheds light on ways in which ideas about belonging and national identity were negotiated in the space of museums.  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