%0 Book
%A Maria Janion
%D 2014
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2191-6179
%@ 9783653044690
%T Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures
%B Translated by Alex Shannon
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-04469-0
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046028
%X 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.
%K Romantisism, Modernity, Polish-Jewish Relations, History of Polish Literature, Jewish History, Holocaust
%G English