{"product_id":"the-holocaust-object-in-polish-and-polishjewish-culture-9780253355645","title":"The Holocaust Object in Polish and PolishJewish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vulnerability of material objects as Holocaust texts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShallcross's book is a significant contribution to current discussions of the Shoah, providing important insights into a broad range of themes that linger at a core of our debates.\u003c\/p\u003e * H-Poland *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShallcross's illuminating study . . . underlines the way objects can relay information in a subliminal, almost visceral, but ambivalent way.\u003c\/p\u003e * Russian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn analyzing the artifacts of writers who took up the ethical and precarious charge of testifying to the destruction engulfing and surrounding them, Shallcross has written an important book.\u003c\/p\u003e * H-Judaic *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShallcross's book is intelligent, articulate . . . and for all its lucid and detached analysis, deeply moving. It is itself now a document of the Holocaust, at once concerned with the desperately important business of vivifying the past and those who constituted it.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, as aptly as she has in her previous work, Shallcross looks at depictions of the depths of suffering through the 'dispossession' of belongings when a prisoner entered a concentration camp. This is a brilliant analysis. ...Highly recommended.October 2011\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShallcross . . . is to be congratulated for bringing to the attention of the world these literary remnants by translating these Polish-lanaguage testimonies and interpreting them with great learning and skill.\u003c\/p\u003e * Chicago Jewish Star *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Totalized Object: An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Jouissance\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Dandy and Jewish Detritus\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Material Letter J\u003cbr\u003eOn Waste and Matter\u003cbr\u003e 3. Holocaust Soap and the Story of Its Production\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Guilty Afterlife of the Soma\u003cbr\u003eOn Contact\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Manuscript Lost in Warsaw\u003cbr\u003e 6. Things, Touch, and Detachment in Auschwitz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda: The Post-Holocaust Object\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments and Permissions\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400681955671,"sku":"9780253355645","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253355645.jpg?v=1730471285","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-holocaust-object-in-polish-and-polishjewish-culture-9780253355645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}