The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture write by Bozena Shallcross. This book was released on 2011-02-21. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, BoÅ1⁄4ena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These representational strategies are distilled from the writings of Zuzanna Ginczanka, WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Szlengel, Zofia NaÅ‚kowska, CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Tadeusz Borowski. Combining close readings of selected texts with critical interrogations of a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches to the nature of matter, Shallcross's study broadens the current discourse on the Holocaust by embracing humble and overlooked material objects as they were perceived by writers of that time.
The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture
The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture write by . This book was released on 2022-07-05. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bondage to the Dead
Bondage to the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bondage to the Dead write by Michael C. Steinlauf. This book was released on 1997. Bondage to the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Polish-Jewish relations, rather good in pre-partition Poland, deteriorated in the mid-19th century, and even more in the Second Republic (1919-39) with its exclusivist nationalism. The wartime period was marked by strong anti-Jewish moods in Poland; antisemitism was a "legitimate" stance within the resistance movement. However, many Poles helped Jews. Between 1944-48 Polish rulers conducted politics favorable toward Jews, but they used the Jewish issue as a tool in their struggle against the old elite, which whipped up anti-Jewish sentiments. In the 1950s-60s the Holocaust was increasingly de-Judaized in Polish discourse; after 1968, when Poland engaged in the anti-Zionist campaign, Jews ceased to be mentioned at all. The genocide of the Jews began to be discussed in Poland only after 1978; the Solidarity movement used its memory in its struggle against the government. At the same time, popular antisemitism re-emerged. Now, many Poles object to what they see as over-emphasis of Jewish suffering and neglect of non-Jewish suffering under the Nazis.
A Social Analysis of Postwar Polish Jewry
A Social Analysis of Postwar Polish Jewry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Social Analysis of Postwar Polish Jewry write by Irena Hurwic-Nowakowska. This book was released on 1986. A Social Analysis of Postwar Polish Jewry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Results of a survey of Jews living in Warsaw, Łódź, and Dzierżoniów conducted in 1947-50 as part of a doctoral dissertation, not published until now. Of the 20,000 questionnaires distributed only 817 were returned, but they represent a wide range of the Polish Jewish population. Ch. 8 (pp. 125-143) deals with the effects of antisemitism on assimilated Jews. Many respondents felt that antisemitism was endemic to Poland, and expressed a desire to emigrate to Palestine. Some hoped to assimilate under a socialist regime while others felt there was no future for Jews there. They accused the Poles of a share in responsibility for the Holocaust and of widespread approval of its results. During the war and after, some Jews tried to conceal their origins but conversion was rare.
Philo-Semitic Violence
Philo-Semitic Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philo-Semitic Violence write by Elzbieta Janicka. This book was released on 2021-07-07. Philo-Semitic Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland’s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives addresses the growing popularity of philo-Semitic violence in Poland between the 2000 revelation of Polish participation in the Holocaust and the 2015 authoritarian turn. Elżbieta Janicka and Tomasz Żukowski examine phenomena termed a “new opening in Polish-Jewish relations,” thought to stem from sociocultural change and the posthumous inclusion of those subjected to anti-Semitic violence. The authors investigate the terms and conditions of this inclusion whose object is an imagined collective Jewish figure. Different creators and media, same friendly intentions, same warm reception beyond class and political cleavages, regardless of gender and age. The made-to-measure Jewish figure confirms and legitimizes the majority narrative—especially about Polish stances and behaviors during the Holocaust. Enabled by this, philo-Semitic feelings indulge the dominant group in Baudrillard’s retrospective hallucinations. The consequence: aggression toward anyone who dares to interrupt the narcissistic self-staging. This book exposes the Polish ethnoreligious identity regime that privileges the concern for the collective image over reality. The authors’ inquiry shows how patterns of exclusion and violence are reproduced when anti-Semitism—with its Christian sources and community-building function—is not openly problematized, reassessed, and rejected in light of its consequences and the basic principle of equal rights.
