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Polish Literature and the Holocaust - Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942-1947 (Hardcover)
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Polish Literature and the Holocaust - Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942-1947 (Hardcover)
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In this pathbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime
and postwar Polish literature, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores
seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience
of witness with the world. The Holocaust put the ideological
convictions of Kornel Filipowicz, Jozef Mackiewicz, Tadeusz
Borowski, Zofia Kossak, Leopold Buczkowski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and
Stefan Otwinowski to the ultimate test. Tragically, witnessing the
horror of the Holocaust implied complicity with the perpetrator and
produced an existential crisis that these writers, who were all
exempted from the genocide thanks to their non-Jewish identities,
struggled to resolve in literary form. Poland and the Holocaust:
Literary Testimonies, 1942-1947 is a particularly timely book in
view of the continuing debates about the attitudes of Poles toward
the Jews during the war. The literary voices from the past that
Brenner examines posit questions that are as pertinent now as they
were then. And so, while this book speaks to readers who are
interested in literary responses to the Holocaust, it also
illuminates the universal issue of the responsibility of witnesses
toward the victims of any atrocity.
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