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The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture (Hardcover)
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The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture (Hardcover)
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On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto
staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since
that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the
dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American
cultural imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture
looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine
art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics.
Samantha Baskind explores seventy years’ worth of artistic
representations of the ghetto and revolt to understand why they
became and remain touchstones in the American mind. Her study
includes iconic works such as Leon Uris’s best-selling novel Mila
18, Roman Polanski’s Academy Award–winning film The Pianist,
and Rod Serling’s teleplay In the Presence of Mine Enemies, as
well as accounts in the American Jewish Yearbook and the New York
Times, the art of Samuel Bak and Arthur Szyk, and the poetry of
Yala Korwin and Charles Reznikoff. In probing these works, Baskind
pursues key questions of Jewish identity: What links artistic
representations of the ghetto to the Jewish diaspora? How is art
politicized or depoliticized? Why have Americans made such a strong
cultural claim on the uprising? Vibrantly illustrated and vividly
told, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture shows the
importance of the ghetto as a site of memory and creative struggle
and reveals how this seminal event and locale served as a staging
ground for the forging of Jewish American identity.
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