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The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers' Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Cultural Expressions) (Cultural Expressions of World War II) - Softcover
The Ethics of Witnessing investigates the reactions of five important Polish diarists-writers aEURO" Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dabrowska, Aurelia Wylezynska, Zofia Nalkowska, and Stanislaw Rembek aEURO" during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw's Jewish population. The responses to the Holocaust of these prominent prewar authors extended from insistence on empathic interaction with victims to resentful detachment from Jewish suffering. Whereas some defied the dehumanization of the Jews and endeavored to maintain intersubjective relationships with the victims they attempted to rescue, others selfdeceptively evaded the Jewish plight. The Ethics of Witnessing examines the extent to which ideologies of humanism and nationalism informed the diarists' perceptions, proposing that the reality of the Final Solution exposed the limits of both orientations and ultimately destroyed the ethical landscape shaped by the Enlightenment tradition, which promised the equality and fellowship of all human beings.
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..".a fascinating inquiry into the almost unbearable pressure to which [the Holocaust] subjected individuals' sense of empathy." --Holocaust and Genocide Studies
"It is a trailblazing work...The Ethics of Witnessing by Rachel Brenner will undoubtedly become one of the most important frames of reference in future research of Polish attitudes toward the Holocaust. The author's scholarly passion, buttressed by erudition and research skills, result in a book that cannot be ignored by anyone addressing the subjects raised within it." --Yad Vashem
"This is an excellent book that deserves to be widely read." --Slavic Review
"Brenner's textual analysis is most impressive...The Ethics of Witnessing is an important and most welcome contribution and a must- read for everyone interested in the growing field of witnessing the genocide in wartime Eastern Europe, the well- established literature on Holocaust testimony, and the study of relations between Jews and non- Jews in occupied Poland." --The Polish Review
"Language and words took on new meanings during the Holocaust. The act of writing a diary took on new meanings as well. Rachel Feldhay Brenner's The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers' Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 offers a glimpse into one of these new meanings of bearing witness as a 'non-victim' through her examination of these five Polish writers' diaries." --SHOFAR
About the Author:
"It is a trailblazing work...The Ethics of Witnessing by Rachel Brenner will undoubtedly become one of the most important frames of reference in future research of Polish attitudes toward the Holocaust. The author's scholarly passion, buttressed by erudition and research skills, result in a book that cannot be ignored by anyone addressing the subjects raised within it." --Yad Vashem
"This is an excellent book that deserves to be widely read." --Slavic Review
"Brenner's textual analysis is most impressive...The Ethics of Witnessing is an important and most welcome contribution and a must- read for everyone interested in the growing field of witnessing the genocide in wartime Eastern Europe, the well- established literature on Holocaust testimony, and the study of relations between Jews and non- Jews in occupied Poland." --The Polish Review
"Language and words took on new meanings during the Holocaust. The act of writing a diary took on new meanings as well. Rachel Feldhay Brenner's The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers' Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 offers a glimpse into one of these new meanings of bearing witness as a 'non-victim' through her examination of these five Polish writers' diaries." --SHOFAR
RACHEL FELDHAY BRENNER is a Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies and Modern Hebrew Literature at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author, among other books, of The Freedom to Write: The Woman-Artist and the World in Ruth Almog's Fiction (2008) [in Hebrew], Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Jewish and Arab Writers Re-Visioning Culture (2003) and Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum (1997).
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- PublisherNorthwestern University Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0810134446
- ISBN 13 9780810134447
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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