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The Ethics of Witnessing. The Holocaust in Polish Writers' Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945.
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
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Paperback. Series: Cultural Expressions of World War II. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
The Ethics of Witnessing investigates the reactions of five important Polish diarists writers Jaros?aw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria D?browska, Aurelia Wyle?y?ska, Zofia Na?kowska, and Stanis?aw Rembek during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw’s Jewish population. The responses to the Holocaust of these prominent pre-war authors extended from insistence on empathic interaction with victims to resentful detachment from Jewish suffering.
Whereas some defied the dehumanisation of the Jews and endeavoured to maintain inter-subjective relationships with the victims they attempted to rescue, others self deceptively evaded the Jewish plight. The Ethics of Witnessing examines the extent to which ideologies of ... Read more
The Ethics of Witnessing investigates the reactions of five important Polish diarists writers Jaros?aw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria D?browska, Aurelia Wyle?y?ska, Zofia Na?kowska, and Stanis?aw Rembek during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw’s Jewish population. The responses to the Holocaust of these prominent pre-war authors extended from insistence on empathic interaction with victims to resentful detachment from Jewish suffering.
Whereas some defied the dehumanisation of the Jews and endeavoured to maintain inter-subjective relationships with the victims they attempted to rescue, others self deceptively evaded the Jewish plight. The Ethics of Witnessing examines the extent to which ideologies of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Expressions of World War II
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810129757
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V9780810129757
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About Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Rachel Feldhay Brenner is a Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies and Modern Hebrew Literature at the Canter for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author, among other books, of The Freedom to Write: The Woman-Artist and the World in Ruth Almog’s Fiction (2008) [in Hebrew], Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Jewish and Arab Writers ... Read more
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