The ethics of witnessing : the Holocaust in Polish writers' diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 / Rachel Feldhay Brenner

Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.64 .B74 2014

Series: Cultural expressions of World War II
Cultural expressions of World War II.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Brenner, Rachel Feldhay, 1946- author.
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Language: English

Physical Description: 198 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Holocaust and the problem of empathy : Polish Christian diarists look at the ghetto
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz : the Holocaust and the struggle for humanism
Maria Dabrowska : witnessing the Holocaust through the ideological lens of nationalism
Aurelia Wylezynska : rethinking art and ethics in the time of the Holocaust
Zofia Nalkowska : the silence and speech of the humanist witness of the Holocaust
Stanislaw Rembek: the Christian witness of the Holocaust and the end of Polish Messianic destiny
Epilogue : to witness the experience of witnessing.
ISBN: 9780810129757
0810129752 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Personal narratives--History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Authors, Polish--20th century--Diaries.
Warsaw (Poland)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Dąbrowska, Maria,--1889-1965--Criticism and interpretation.
Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław,--1894-1980--Criticism and interpretation.
Wyleżyńska, Aura--Criticism and interpretation.
Nałkowska, Zofia,--1884-1954--Criticism and interpretation.
Rembek, Stanisław--Criticism and interpretation.
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