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Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures - Translated by Alex Shannon

English · Hardback

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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 Krasinski'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.

List of contents

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".

About the author










Maria Janion is a historian of literature and ideas, whose main focus is romanticism and its legacy in contemporary culture. As Professor in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), and currently in the Graduate School of Social Sciences at PAN¿s Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, she has conducted a series of famous seminars.

Product details

Authors Maria Janion
Assisted by Alex Shannon (Translation)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2014
 
EAN 9783631623572
ISBN 978-3-631-62357-2
No. of pages 248
Dimensions 149 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
Weight 415 g
Series Cross-Roads
Cross-Roads
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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