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This is a narrative that erupts into critical moments in Jewish, Polish and American history. It is also a story of the hidden anguish that courses through that history. It is told through a dialogue between Michael Steinlauf, historian of Polish-Jewish culture and child of Holocaust survivors, and the Polish anthropologist and artist El¿bieta Janicka.
Sommario
1. Poland, 1980s
2. Columbia, 1960s
3. Seattle, first half of the 1970s
4. Brighton Beach, 1950s
5. Brandeis, 1979-88
6. Bondage to the Dead, first time around
7. Bondage to the Dead, second time around
8. Moses, Moyshe, Michä, Mary¿, Michel, Michael first time around
9. Moses, Moyshe, Michä, Mary¿, Michel, Michael second time around
10. Postscripts
Acknowledgements
Info autore
El¿bieta Janicka is a literary scholar and visual artist. She is the author of Sztuka czy Naród? [Art or Nation?] and Festung Warschau, exposing violence and exclusion embedded in Polish dominant culture, as well as numerous studies of Polish antisemitism. Most recently she co-authored Philosemitic Violence. Poland¿s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
Riassunto
This is a narrative that erupts into critical moments in Jewish, Polish and American history. It is also a story of the hidden anguish that courses through that history. It is told through a dialogue between Michael Steinlauf, historian of Polish-Jewish culture and child of Holocaust survivors, and the Polish anthropologist and artist Elzbieta Janicka.
