{"product_id":"polish-literature-and-the-holocaust-rachel-feldhay-brenner-9780810139817","title":"Polish Literature and the Holocaust: Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942-1947","description":"In this pathbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience of witness with the world. The Holocaust put the ideological convictions of Kornel Filipowicz, Józef Mackiewicz, Tadeusz Borowski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Leopold Buczkowski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Stefan Otwinowski to the ultimate test. Tragically, witnessing the horror of the Holocaust implied complicity with the perpetrator and produced an existential crisis that these writers, who were all exempted from the genocide thanks to their non-Jewish identities, struggled to resolve in literary form. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolish Literature and the Holocaust: Eyewitness Testimonies,1942-1947\u003c\/i\u003e is a particularly timely book in view of the continuing debate about the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews during the war. The literary voices from the past that Brenner examines posit questions that are as pertinent now as they were then. And so, while this book speaks to readers who are interested in literary responses to the Holocaust, it also illuminates the universal issue of the responsibility of witnesses toward the victims of any atrocity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Feldhay Brenner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810139812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810139817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2020","brand":"Rachel Feldhay Brenner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517458395391,"sku":"9780810139817","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70f884c0-3822-42a4-9fe3-74c8a2abfb9a.jpg?v=1778731940","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/polish-literature-and-the-holocaust-rachel-feldhay-brenner-9780810139817","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}