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Title

Stranger in our midst : images of the Jew in Polish literature / edited and with an introduction by Harold B. Segel.

Publication

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Segel, Harold B., 1930-

Description

xiv, 402 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• A vibrant Jewish community flourished in Poland from late in the tenth century until it was virtually annihilated in World War II. In this remarkable anthology, the first of its kind, Harold B. Segel offers translations of poems and prose works - mainly fiction - by non-Jewish Polish writers. Taken together, the selections represent the complex perceptions about Jews in the Polish community in the period 1530-1990.
• As Segel explains in his thorough and enlightening introduction, Polish literary responses to the huge community of Jewish "strangers" in their midst illuminate both the important Jewish dimension of Polish history and a major current in the history of Polish literature.

Subjects

• Jews > Poland > Literary collections
• Polish literature > Translations into English

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-402).

Contents

• "Poem about Jews" / Jan Dantyszek (Ioannes Dantiscus) -- Principles of Law of the Polish Land / Jan Tarnowski -- Catechism of the Secrets of the Polish Government as Written about the Year 1735 by the Esteemed Mr. Sterne in the English Language, Later Translated into French, and Now Finally into Polish / Franciszek Salezy Jezierski -- "Jews" / Stanislaw Staszic -- Levi and Sarah / Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz -- The Year 3333, or an Incredible Dream / Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz -- Pan Tadeusz / Adam Mickiewicz -- "Israel in Poland" / Andrzej Towianski -- Collocation / Jozef Korzeniowski -- "Polish Jews" / Cyprian Kamil Norwid -- The Jew: Contemporary Images / Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski -- Letters from America / Henryk Sienkiewicz -- "Mighty Samson" / Eliza Orzeszkowa -- Meir Ezofowicz / Eliza Orzeszkowa -- "Chava Ruby" / Aleksander Swietochowski -- "El mole rachmim..." / Wiktor Gomulicki -- "The Tailor" / Klemens Junosza (Szaniawski) --
• "Froim (A Sketch from Nature)" / Klemens Junosza (Szaniawski) -- Our Jews in Towns and Villages / Klemens Junosza (Szaniawski) -- "Srul of Lubartow" / Adam Szymanski -- The Doll / Boleslaw Prus (Glowacki) -- Chronicles / Boleslaw Prus (Glowacki) -- "Mendel of Gdansk" / Maria Konopnicka -- "The Anti-Semite" / Gabriela Zapolska -- The Popular Anti-Semitic Press from 1915 to 1929: Four Treatises. Poles, Jews, Russians / J. Grabowski. Jews during the War / Anonymous. On the Jewish Question / Jan Gnatowski. "On Values and Super-Values" / Stanislaw Pienkowski -- Two Poems / Antoni Slonimski -- The Stranger / Maria Kuncewiczowa -- The City of Herod: Palestinian Notes / Maria Kuncewiczowa -- "The Balagula" / Stanislaw Vincenz -- Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition / Czeslaw Milosz -- "Cultural Anti-Semitism" / Leon Kruczkowski -- "The Anti-Semitism of Academic Youth" / Zygmunt Szymanowski -- "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" / Czeslaw Milosz --
• Holy Week / Jerzy Andrzejewski -- "Elegy of Jewish Towns" / Antoni Slonimski -- "The Man with the Package" / Tadeusz Borowski -- "The Mendelssohn Quartet" / Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz -- "Yankel's Last Concert" / Marian Piechal -- "The Branch" / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman / Andrzej Szczypiorski -- The Final Station: Umschlagplatz / Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz -- Selected Bibliography of Works in English on the Jews of Poland and Polish-Jewish Relations.

ISBN

• 0801428653 (cl. : alk. paper)
• 080148104X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95050480

OCLC

• 33818901
• ocm33818901

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries