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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 «un...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-901582024-05-14T02:23:38Z Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures Janion, Maria Alex Conspiracy Death Hero History of Polish Literature Holocaust Janion Jewish Jewish History Lectures Maria Modernity Polish-Jewish Relations Romantisism Shannon Teresa Translated Walas thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general 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. 2024-05-13T13:25:55Z 2024-05-13T13:25:55Z 2014 book ONIX_20240513_9783653044690_3 9783653044690 9783653999495 9783653999501 9783631623572 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90158 eng Cross-Roads application/pdf n/a 9783653044690.pdf https://www.peterlang.com/downloadpdf/title/14337 Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/978-3-653-04469-0 10.3726/978-3-653-04469-0 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783653044690 9783653999495 9783653999501 9783631623572 3 248 Bern open access
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