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Title: Memory and Neighborhood: Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two

Memory and Neighborhood: Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two

by Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich (Author)
©2013 Monographs 169 Pages
English Studies
Series: Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory, Volume 4

Summary

The book is a study of references to Poles, Poland and Polishness in Jewish-American fiction created after World War II. The analysis of seventy novels by Jewish-American writers of several generations reveals portrayals of Poles as secondary or unimportant characters, either in the Old World or in the new American environment.

Details

Pages
169
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653033175
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631639092
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03317-5
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (November)
Keywords
Holocaust Polish-Jewish relations shtetls ghettoes anti-Semitism
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 169 pp.
Product Safety
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Biographical notes

Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich (Author)

Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich is Associate Professor at SWPS/University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, where she is teaching American literature and cross-cultural communication. Her main research area is focusing on Jewish-American writers.

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Title: Memory and Neighborhood: Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two