Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures: Translated by Alex Shannon (Cross-Roads, #3)

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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 "unworthy" death in the Holocaust? What are the implications of Adam Mickiewicz's philo-Semitism? In Zygmunt Krasinski'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.
  • ISBN13 9783631623572
  • Publish Date 29 April 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CH
  • Imprint Peter Lang AG