TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maria Janion
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-6179
SN  - 9783653044690
TI  - Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures
T2  - Translated by Alex Shannon
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-04469-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046028
N2  - 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.
KW  - Romantisism, Modernity, Polish-Jewish Relations, History of Polish Literature, Jewish History, Holocaust
LA  - English
ER  -