Memory and Neighborhood : Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two.
Title:
Memory and Neighborhood : Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two.
Author:
Aleksandrowicz-Pedich, Lucyna.
ISBN:
9783653033175
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (170 pages)
Series:
Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory ; v.4
Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Collective Portrait -- I. Polish Anti-Semitism -- II. Unpleasant Polish Types -- III. Other Poles -- IV. Poles and Jews in Multicultural America -- Concluding remarks -- Part II. Memory -- I. Shtetls, Cities, Ghettoes -- II. Poland: A Country from the Old World -- III. Poland as the Site of the Second World War and the Holocaust -- IV. Poland as the Land of Death -- V. Poland as a Hostile Place -- VI. The Jew and the Polish Inheritance -- VII. At the Intersection of Contact: Customs, Values,Superstitions -- Part III. Other Traces -- I. Famous People -- Poles -- Polish Jews -- II. Things from Poland -- III. Contacts with Contemporary Poland -- IV. Polish-sounding Names -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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