Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures
Translated by Alex Shannon
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Alex; Conspiracy; Death; Hero; History of Polish Literature; Holocaust; Janion; Jewish; Jewish History; Lectures; Maria; Modernity; Polish-Jewish Relations; Romantisism; Shannon; Teresa; Translated; WalasDOI
10.3726/978-3-653-04469-0ISBN
9783653044690, 9783653999495, 9783653999501, 9783631623572, 9783653044690Publisher website
https://www.peterlang.com/Publication date and place
Bern, 2014Series
Cross-Roads, 3Classification
European history
Linguistics
Literary studies: general