Title:
The ethics of witnessing : the Holocaust in Polish writers' diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 / Rachel Feldhay Brenner.
Author:
Brenner, Rachel Feldhay, 1946- author.
Publication Information:
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Call Number:
DS134.64 .B74 2014
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ISBN:
9780810129757
Series:
Cultural expressions of World War II
Cultural expressions of World War II.
Physical Description:
x, 198 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The Holocaust and the problem of empathy : Polish Christian diarists look at the ghetto -- Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz : the Holocaust and the struggle for humanism -- Maria Dabrowska : witnessing the Holocaust through the ideological lens of nationalism -- Aurelia Wylezynska : rethinking art and ethics in the time of the Holocaust -- Zofia Nalkowska : the silence and speech of the humanist witness of the Holocaust -- Stanislaw Rembek: the Christian witness of the Holocaust and the end of Polish Messianic destiny -- Epilogue : to witness the experience of witnessing.
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