Pole/Jew by John J. Bukowczyk, Halina Filipowicz - 9780821426487

Ohio University Press

Pole/JewHistory, Literature, Identity, Future\nAuthor(s): John J. Bukowczyk, Halina Filipowicz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821426487, 978-0821426487\nSynopsis\nPole/Jew brings together a group of scholars-about half of them Jewish, about half of them ethnic Poles-from the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Canada and enlists their diverse methodological and generational perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond entrenched and reductive positions. At the core of the volume are the following questions:\n\nWhat impact has the Holocaust had on Polish history and Polish literature?\nHow has the Holocaust affected Polish-Jewish-and Polish-identity?\nWhat future is there for relations between Polands small Jewish minority and the countrys overwhelming ethnic Polish majority? Between Poland and Israel? Between Jews of the diaspora and ethnic Poles abroad?\nWhich research ark