„Zaginiony świat” wschodnioeuropejskich Żydów w perspektywie pojęcia ludobójstwa kulturowego kanadyjskich ludów rdzennych
“The vanished world” of Eastern European Jews and the concept of cultural genocide in Indigenous perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The author considers the intersections of the annihilation of Eastern European Jews during the Holocaust and settler colonial genocides in North America through the lens of “cultural genocide,” as it was first proposed by Raphaël Lemkin, rejected by the signatories of the Genocide Convention, and then taken up a few decades later by Indigenous thinkers and activists in Canada and the US. Głowacka argues that an ideological proximity of the idea of “the vanished world,” which has shaped popular conceptions of Eastern European Jews in North America, and the colonial metaphor of “the vanishing Native American race” exposes problematic traces of Western cultural superiority entrenched in North American perceptions of the Holocaust. Głowacka proposes that introducing the notion of cultural genocide as it has been re-signified and decolonised by Indigenous scholars is useful in the context of Holocaust studies since it reveals political and ontological dimensions of the concept of culture and thus the inseparability of the physical and cultural aspects of the annihilation of Eastern European Jews.

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