Chapter Multicultural Łódź as a site of memory after 1945 – variability and diversity

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Łódź was a place where different cultures, religions, languages and nationalities met. The impetus for this multinational melting pot was the textile industry, which attracted settlers from different parts of Europe. Within a few decades, Łódź developed from a small c...

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description In the 19th and 20th centuries, Łódź was a place where different cultures, religions, languages and nationalities met. The impetus for this multinational melting pot was the textile industry, which attracted settlers from different parts of Europe. Within a few decades, Łódź developed from a small city into a large metropolis with multiculturalism as its distinguishing feature. Łódź was a multicultural city until the end of the Second World War. As a result of ethnic segregation, a large part of the German and Jewish population left the city. They nurtured their memory of Łódź in the new socio-political conditions, outside Poland, often in dispersion, in small clusters often concentrated around hometown societies. The article describes how various nationality groups (Poles, Germans, Jews) remembered the multicultural city after 1945, based mainly on memories and newspaper articles. The author also draws attention to the fact that they functioned in a range of socio-political realities, which determined their memory of the multicultural city.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1565072025-03-07T15:23:03Z Chapter Multicultural Łódź as a site of memory after 1945 – variability and diversity Kucner, Monika city ethnographic research cultural anthropology city in an interdisciplinary perspective urban studies In the 19th and 20th centuries, Łódź was a place where different cultures, religions, languages and nationalities met. The impetus for this multinational melting pot was the textile industry, which attracted settlers from different parts of Europe. Within a few decades, Łódź developed from a small city into a large metropolis with multiculturalism as its distinguishing feature. Łódź was a multicultural city until the end of the Second World War. As a result of ethnic segregation, a large part of the German and Jewish population left the city. They nurtured their memory of Łódź in the new socio-political conditions, outside Poland, often in dispersion, in small clusters often concentrated around hometown societies. The article describes how various nationality groups (Poles, Germans, Jews) remembered the multicultural city after 1945, based mainly on memories and newspaper articles. The author also draws attention to the fact that they functioned in a range of socio-political realities, which determined their memory of the multicultural city. 2025-03-07T15:23:01Z 2025-03-07T15:23:01Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788383314099_2157 9788383314099 9788383314082 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/156507 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/763 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8331-408-2.16 In the 19th and 20th centuries, Łódź was a place where different cultures, religions, languages and nationalities met. The impetus for this multinational melting pot was the textile industry, which attracted settlers from different parts of Europe. Within a few decades, Łódź developed from a small city into a large metropolis with multiculturalism as its distinguishing feature. Łódź was a multicultural city until the end of the Second World War. As a result of ethnic segregation, a large part of the German and Jewish population left the city. They nurtured their memory of Łódź in the new socio-political conditions, outside Poland, often in dispersion, in small clusters often concentrated around hometown societies. The article describes how various nationality groups (Poles, Germans, Jews) remembered the multicultural city after 1945, based mainly on memories and newspaper articles. The author also draws attention to the fact that they functioned in a range of socio-political realities, which determined their memory of the multicultural city. 10.18778/8331-408-2.16 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788383314099 9788383314082 251-269 open access
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Chapter Multicultural Łódź as a site of memory after 1945 – variability and diversity
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