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This groundbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature explores seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience of witness with the world. It is a particularly timely book in view of the continuing debates about the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews during the war.

Table of Contents
  • 1. The Holocaust in Polish Consciousness: Early Literary Representations
  • 2. The Moral Failure of the Enlightened Witness of the Holocaust: Kornel Filipowicz, Józef Mackiewicz, and Tadeusz Borowski
  • 3. Re-thinking Christian theology in the Time of the Holocaust: Zofia Kossak–Szczucka
  • 4. The Humanistic Crisis of a Godless World: Leopold Buczkowski
  • 5. Catholic Existentialism in Face of the Occupation and the Holocaust: Jerzy Andrzejewski
  • 6. The Holocaust and a Vision of Polish-Jewish Kinship: Stefan Otwinowski
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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        Publisher: Northwestern University Press
        Publication Date: 4/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780810139800, 978-0810139800
        ISBN10: 0810139804
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        Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 The Holocaust Second World War

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        This groundbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature explores seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience of witness with the world. It is a particularly timely book in view of the continuing debates about the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews during the war.

        Table of Contents
        • 1. The Holocaust in Polish Consciousness: Early Literary Representations
        • 2. The Moral Failure of the Enlightened Witness of the Holocaust: Kornel Filipowicz, Józef Mackiewicz, and Tadeusz Borowski
        • 3. Re-thinking Christian theology in the Time of the Holocaust: Zofia Kossak–Szczucka
        • 4. The Humanistic Crisis of a Godless World: Leopold Buczkowski
        • 5. Catholic Existentialism in Face of the Occupation and the Holocaust: Jerzy Andrzejewski
        • 6. The Holocaust and a Vision of Polish-Jewish Kinship: Stefan Otwinowski
        • Epilogue
        • Notes
        • Index

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