CATEGORICALLY JEWISH DISTINCTLY POLISH: THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS ND THE NEW POLISH-JEWISH METAHISTORY (original) (raw)

Given their druthers, most historians today would prefer to write history that is not a component of some metahistory. Rather than project the Big Story, which entails beliefs and assumptions about "HISTORY", they want to tell a small story, "history", that stands on empirical findings and logical reasoning. They don't desire to contribute to an overarching grand narrative that purports to give order and meaning to large chunks of history by defining a framework that is more historiosophy than historiography, more ideology than research.