ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the contemporary Polish-Jewish sociality, religiosity and subjectivities, and aims to shed light on the negotiation of belonging in a Jewish Community of Wroclaw, in southwest Poland. Among younger members and affiliates of the Jewish Community of Wroclaw, notions of belonging were very much informed by the idiosyncratic features of character, personal experiences and political views. Since 1989, Jewish social life in Poland has undergone a profound transformation enabled by the country's post-1989 political shift and set in motion by Jewish grassroots activism and the impact of global Jewish organisations. Reconstituted Jewish Communities along with the trans-local projects of socialisation and education, offered new modalities of being and becoming Jewish. This institutional remaking of Jewish life is facilitated by the emergent socio-economic and political reality, namely the renaissance of interest in Poland's Jewish cultural heritage. This heritahe attracts foreign tourists and non-Jewish Poles alike.