Memory and Neighborhood: Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two

Name: Memory and Neighborhood: Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two
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Author: Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich
ISBN: 978-3-653-03317-5

Aleksandrowicz-Pedich, Lucyna

Memory and Neighborhood: Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two

by Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich (Author)

English Studies

Series: Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory, Volume 4

Summary

The book is a study of references to Poles, Poland and Polishness in Jewish-American fiction created after World War II. The analysis of seventy novels by Jewish-American writers of several generations reveals portrayals of Poles as secondary or unimportant characters, either in the Old World or in the new American environment.

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Pages: 169
Year: 2013
ISBN (PDF): 9783653033175
ISBN (Hardcover): 9783631639092
DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-03317-5
Language: English
Publication date: 2013 (November)
Keywords: Holocaust Polish-Jewish relations shtetls ghettoes anti-Semitism
Published: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 169 pp.

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Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich (Author)

Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich is Associate Professor at SWPS/University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, where she is teaching American literature and cross-cultural communication. Her main research area is focusing on Jewish-American writers.

Memory and Neighborhood: Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two

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