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Author Michlic, Joanna B

Title Poland's threatening other : the image of the Jew from 1880 to the present / Joanna Beata Michlic
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006

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Contents Introduction : the concept of the Jew as the threatening other and modern nation building in Poland -- The representation of the Jew as the threatening other : a historical introduction, part I -- The myth of the Jew as the threatening other in interwar Poland, 1918-39 : a historical introduction, part II -- The myth and anti-Jewish violence between 1918 and 1939 : instigation, rationalization, and justification of violence -- Perceptions of Jews during the German occupation of Poland, 1939-45 : a new set of political and social circumstances -- Old wine in a new bottle : Polish perceptions of Jews in the early postwar period, 1945-49 -- Judeo-Communists, Judeo-Stalinists, Judeo-anti-Communists, and national nihilists : the Communist regime and the myth, 1950s-80s -- Conclusion : the beginning of the end of the image, 1989-2000s
Summary In this provocative and insightful book, Joanna Beata Michlic interrogates the myth of the Jew as Poland's foremost internal "threatening other," harmful to Poland, its people, and to all aspects of its national life. This is the first attempt to chart new theoretical directions in the study of Polish-Jewish relations in the wake of the controversy over Jan Gross's book Neighbors. Michlic analyzes the nature and impact of anti-Jewish prejudices on modern Polish society and culture, tracing the history of the concept of the Jew as the threatening other and its role in the formation and development of modern Polish national identity based on the matrix of exclusivist ethnic nationalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- History
Antisemitism -- Poland -- History
Nationalism -- Poland
Jews -- Poland -- Public opinion
Public opinion -- Poland
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- General.
Antisemitism
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Persecutions
Jews -- Public opinion
Nationalism
Politics and government
Public opinion
Joden.
Antisemitisme.
Representatie (algemeen)
Publieke opinie.
SUBJECT Poland -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104111
Poland -- Ethnic relations
Subject Poland
Polen (land)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 080325637X
9780803256378
9786610466412
6610466416