This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History - Couverture souple

Janicka, Elbieta; Steinlauf, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1644698404 ISBN 13 : 9781644698402

Editeur : Cherry Orchard Books, 2022

Synopsis

From fleeing the Warsaw Ghetto and living underground to fighting for social justice in 1960s’ Seattle and helping smash the communist system in 1980s’ Poland, this is a narrative that erupts into critical moments in Jewish, Polish, and American history. It is also a story of the hidden anguish that accompanies and courses through that history, of the living haunted by the dead. The story is told through a conversation, often contentious, between Michael Steinlauf, historian of Polish-Jewish culture and child of Holocaust survivors, and the anthropologist and artist Elżbieta Janicka. It is illustrated with scores of photographs and documents.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Elżbieta Janicka is a literary scholar and visual artist. She is the author of Sztuka czy Naród? [Art or Nation?] and Festung Warschau, exposing violence and exclusion embedded in Polish dominant culture, as well as numerous studies of Polish antisemitism. Most recently she co-authored Philosemitic Violence. Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).

Michael Steinlauf is the author of Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust as well as numerous studies of Jewish culture in prewar Poland. He was one of the founders of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Currently he is completing studies of the Polish Jewish dramatist Mark Arnshteyn and the Yiddish culture hero Y. L. Peretz.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cherry Orchard Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1644698404
• ISBN 13: 9781644698402
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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• Personne responsable: non disponible