Hero, conspiracy, and death: the Jewish lectures
| Titel: | Hero, conspiracy, and death: the Jewish lectures / Maria Janion. Transl. by Alex Shannon |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Frankfurt, M. : PL Acad. Research, 2014 |
| Umfang: | 248 Seiten ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Cross-roads ; 3 |
| ISBN: | 3631623577 ; 9783631623572 |
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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.
