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Title: Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures
Condition: New
Subtitle: Translated by Alex Shannon
EAN: 9783631623572
ISBN: 9783631623572
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 29/04/2014
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: CH
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 148mm
Item Weight: 480g
Author: Maria Janion
Book Series: Cross-Roads
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Language & Reference, History
Contributor: Teresa Walas (Series edited by)
Release Year: 2014

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