The book adds new studies of memories and interactions between Jews and non-Jews to the historical and cultural research on this topic. It gathers in one volume the results of work by scholars from several countries, while the topics of the articles cover various disciplines: history, sociology, psychology, literary and language studies. The specific themes refer to the cultures and interactions with non-Jews in places such as Kiev, Vienna, Ireland, Springfield, Sosúa as well as reflect upon interactions in literary texts by Czes?aw Milosz and other Polish writers, some contemporary Jewish-American novelists and South American writers. Finally there are texts referring to the experience of the Holocaust and the post-Holocaust trauma as well as German-Israeli and Polish-Jewish relations and heritage.

Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-P?dich is Professor of American Literature and Cross-Cultural Communication at SWPS/University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. Her main field of research is Jewish American fiction. Jacek Partyka is Assistant Professor at the University of Bia?ystok (Poland), where he teaches History of American Literature, Modernism in American Literature and American Holocaust Fiction.