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Poland''s Threatening Other : The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0803220790
ISBN-13 9780803220799
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Dec 1st, 2008
Print length 388 Pages
Weight 601 grams
Ksh 3,650.00
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Interrogates the myth of the Jew as Poland's foremost internal 'threatening other', harmful to Poland, its people, and to different aspects of its national life. This book 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.
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.

In the late nineteenth century and throughout the greater part of the twentieth, exclusivist ethnic nationalism predominated over inclusive civic nationalism in Polish political culture and society. Only in the aftermath of the political transformation of 1989 has Polish civic nationalism gradually gained predominance. As civic nationalism has become more assertive, Polish scholars have begun to unearth and critically examine the legacies of Polish anti-Semitism and other anti-minority prejudices. Michlic conducted extensive research in Polish, British, and Israeli archives for this book. Poland’s Threatening Other contributes to modern Jewish and Polish history, the study of nationalism, and to a new school of critical inquiry into the nature of anti-Jewish prejudices.

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