UID:
almahu_9948664282802882
Format:
1 online resource (248 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9783653044690
Series Statement:
Cross-Roads 3
Content:
With Hero, Conspiracy and Death: The Jewish Lectures, the author has written a book of sweeping significance for readers interested in Polish history, Jewish history, and the Holocaust in which she asks troubling questions: Can a Jew be both a Jew and a Pole? Are we right to talk of «worthy» and «unworthy» death in the Holocaust? What are the implications of Adam Mickiewicz’s philo-Semitism? In Zygmunt Krasiński’s anti-Semitism, do we see the «specter of elimination»? Are humanist and enlightenment values useful in analyzing the Holocaust, or did the experience of Nazi genocide render them obsolete? Tracing the history of anti-Jewish stereotypes in early nineteenth-century Poland (and beyond), the author offers answers to these questions that are bold, clear and compassionate.
Note:
Contents: The Jewish Colonel – Polish Antisemitism and its Founding Myth – Leonard’s Eastern Eyes – Three Variations on the Jewish Theme in Mickiewicz – Mickiewicz’s Jewish Legion – The Irony of Calek Perechodnik – Kertész: «Even if I may seem to be talking about something quite different, I am still talking about Auschwitz».
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631623572
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-04469-0
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/15842?format=EPDF
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