Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature (Leaders; 18) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801428653 ISBN 13: 9780801428654

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1996

Synopsis

A vibrant Jewish community flourished in Poland from late in the tenth century until it was virtually annihilated in World War II. In this remarkable anthology, the first of its kind, Harold B. Segel offers translations of poems and prose works―mainly fiction―by non-Jewish Polish writers. Taken together, the selections represent the complex perceptions about Jews in the Polish community in the period 1530-1990.

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About the Author

Harold B. Segel is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Among his previous books are Polish Romantic Drama and Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, also from Cornell.

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A vibrant Jewish community flourished in Poland from late in the tenth century until it was virtually annihilated in World War II. In this remarkable anthology, the first of its kind, Harold B. Segel offers translations of poems and prose works - mainly fiction - by non-Jewish Polish writers. Taken together, the selections represent the complex perceptions about Jews in the Polish community in the period 1530-1990. As Segel explains in his thorough and enlightening introduction, Polish literary responses to the huge community of Jewish "strangers" in their midst illuminate both the important Jewish dimension of Polish history and a major current in the history of Polish literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801428653
• ISBN 13: 9780801428654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Segel Harold B.