Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures

Translated by Alex Shannon

Maria Janion author Teresa Walas editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:29th Apr '14

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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.

ISBN: 9783631623572

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 480g

248 pages

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