Hero, Conspiracy, and Death

The Jewish Lectures

• Author(s): Maria Janion,
• Publisher: PL Academic Research
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 3631623577
  ISBN_13: 9783631623572
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / Polish , History / Europe / Eastern , History / Modern / General , Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical , Literary Criticism / European / Eastern , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Religion , Social Science / Discrimination ,

Description:... 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.