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Philo-Semitic Violence
eBook - Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives, Reading Trauma and Memory
ISBN/EAN: 9781793636706
Umbreit-Nr.: 2619481
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 280 S.
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Erschienen am 07.07.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
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- Zusatztext
- <p><span>Philo-Semitic Violence: Polands Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives</span><span> addresses the growing popularity of philo-Semitic violence in Poland between the 2000 revelation of Polish participation in the Holocaust and the 2015 authoritarian turn.</span></p><p></p><p><span>El</span><span></span><span>bieta Janicka and Tomasz</span><span></span><span>ukowski examine phenomena termed a new opening in Polish-Jewish relations, thought to stem from sociocultural change and the posthumous inclusion of those subjected to anti-Semitic violence. The authors investigate the terms and conditions of this inclusion whose object is an imagined collective Jewish figure.</span></p><p></p><p><span>Different creators and media, same friendly intentions, same warm reception beyond class and political cleavages, regardless of gender and age. The made-to-measure Jewish figure confirms and legitimizes the majority narrativeespecially about Polish stances and behaviors during the Holocaust. Enabled by this, philo-Semitic feelings indulge the dominant group in Baudrillards retrospective hallucinations. The consequence: aggression toward anyone who dares to interrupt the narcissistic self-staging.</span></p><p></p><p><span>This book exposes the Polish ethnoreligious identity regime that privileges the concern for the collective image over reality. The authors inquiry shows how patterns of exclusion and violence are reproduced when anti-Semitismwith its Christian sources and community-building functionis not openly problematized, reassessed, and rejected in light of its consequences and the basic principle of equal rights.</span></p>
- Kurztext
- <p><span>Philo-Semitic Violence</span><span> investigates Polish philo-Semitism that grew in popularity before the 2015 nation-wide turn to authoritarianism. This inquiry shows how this specious phenomenon reproduced patterns of exclusion and violence, despite best intentions, because Polish anti-Semitism was not problematized, reassessed and rejected in the light of its consequences.</span></p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p><span>Elbieta Janicka</span><span> is associate professor in the department of nationality studies at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences.</span></p><p></p><p><span>Tomasz ukowski</span><span> is professor of modern Polish literature and culture at the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences.</span></p>