Contested Memories

{{Short description|2003 book}}

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| editor = Joshua D. Zimmerman

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| subject = The Holocaust in Poland

| publisher = Rutgers University Press

| pub_date = 2003

| media_type = Print

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| isbn = 978-0-8135-3158-8

| dewey = 940.53/18/0943

| congress = D804.3 .C69

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Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath is a 2003 book discussing the Holocaust in Poland. Contributors include Zvi Gitelman, Nechama Tec, Israel Gutman, Henry Abramson, Samuel Kassow, Dariusz Stola, David Engel, Stanisław Krajewski, Feliks Tych, Gunnar S. Paulsson, and Michael C. Steinlauf. It was edited by Joshua D. Zimmerman.{{Cite journal|last=Huener|first=J.|date=2005-03-01|title=Review: A Battlefield of Ideas: Nazi Concentration Camps and Their Polish Prisoners * Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath|url=https://academic.oup.com/hgs/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/hgs/dci009|journal=Holocaust and Genocide Studies|language=en|volume=19|issue=1|pages=117–122|doi=10.1093/hgs/dci009|issn=8756-6583|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Epstein|first=Donald B.|date=January 2003|title=Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath: Zimmerman, Joshua D., ed.: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press 324 pp., Publication Date: February 2003|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03612759.2003.10527583|journal=History: Reviews of New Books|language=en|volume=31|issue=3|pages=114–115|doi=10.1080/03612759.2003.10527583|s2cid=146869333|issn=0361-2759|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Finder|first=G. N.|date=2005-03-01|title=Review: Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath|url=https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jaarel/lfi035|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion|language=en|volume=73|issue=1|pages=284–287|doi=10.1093/jaarel/lfi035|issn=0002-7189|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Polonsky|first=Antony|date=June 2005|title=Book ReviewJoshua Zimmerman, ed., Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath.Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. 324 pp. $35.00.|url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/jcws.2005.7.3.176|journal=Journal of Cold War Studies|language=en|volume=7|issue=3|pages=176–177|doi=10.1162/jcws.2005.7.3.176|s2cid=57561605|issn=1520-3972|url-access=subscription}}

The book was described by the publisher as "the first attempt since the fall of Communism to reassess the existing historiography of Polish–Jewish relations just before, during, and after the Second World War".{{cite web|url=https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/contested-memories/9780813531588|title=Contested Memories|publisher=Rutgers University Press|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403055432/https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/contested-memories/9780813531588|archive-date=3 April 2020}}