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The Warsaw Ghetto in American art and culture
- Title
- The Warsaw Ghetto in American art and culture / Samantha Baskind.
- Author
- Baskind, Samantha
- Publication
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 21-588 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 309 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- "An interdisciplinary study examining the diverse meanings of the Warsaw Ghetto in American culture. Looks at how the ghetto has been represented in fine art, book illustrations, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "You must be prepared to resist, not give yourselves up like sheep to slaughter" : heroism, the muscular Jew, and the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943-1950 -- "I was responsible to the people who had played out that terrible hour in history" : Rod Serling, Millard Lampell, and familial conflict behind the walls -- "I am a Jew and what am I going to do about it" : Leon Uris, Mila 18, and muscular Judaism -- "I would like to paint one million Jewish icons" : Samuel Bak's painted memorials and the traumatic loss of the youngest generation -- "Our children, our children must live" : Joe Kubert, comics, and the saving remnant -- Epilogue : "Will the world know of us? Will the world know?" : the Warsaw Ghetto in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Call Number
- JFF 21-588
- ISBN
- 9780271078700
- 0271078707
- LCCN
- 2017031182
- 14776970
- OCLC
- 994999795
- Author
- Baskind, Samantha, author.
- Title
- The Warsaw Ghetto in American art and culture / Samantha Baskind.
- Publisher
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 14776970
- Research Call Number
- JFF 21-588