Stranger in Our Midst : : Images of the Jew in Polish Literature / / ed. by Harold B. Segel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Andrzejewski, Jerzy,; Anonymous,,; Borowski, Tadeusz,; Dantyszek, Jan,; Gnatowski, Fr. Jan,; Gomulicki, Wiktor,; Grabowski, J.,; Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław,; Junosza, Klemens,; Konopnicka, Maria,; Korzeniowski, Józef,; Kraszewski, Józef Ignacy,; Kruczkowski, Leon,; Kuncewiczowa, Maria,; Mickiewicz, Adam,; Miłosz, Czesław,; Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn,; Norwid, Cyprian Kamil,; Orzeszkowa, Eliza,; Piechal, Marian,; Pieńkowski, Stanisław,; Prus, Bolesław,; Rymkiewicz, Jarosław Marek,; Różewicz, Tadeusz,; Salezy Jezierski, Fr. Franciszek,; Segel, Harold B.,; Sienkiewicz, Henryk,; Staszic, Stanisław,; Szczypiorski, Andrzej,; Szymanowski, Zygmunt,; Szymański, Adam,; Słonimski, Antoni,; Tarnowski, Jan,; Towiańtski, Andrzej,; Vincenz, Stanisław,; Zapolska, Gabriela,; Świȩtochowski, Aleksander,
• HerausgeberIn: Segel, Harold B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 11 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One. From the Renaissance to the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- "Poem about Jews" (rnid-1530s) -- Principles of Law of the Polish Land (1579) -- 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 (1790) -- "Jews" -- Levi and Sarah -- The Year 3333, or An Incredible Dream -- Pan Tadeusz -- "Israel in Poland" -- Collocation -- "Polish Jews" -- Part Two. From Positivism to Modernism -- The Jew: Contemporary Images -- Letters from America -- "Mighty Samson" -- Meir Ezofowicz -- "Chava Ruby" -- "El mole rachmim ... :' -- "The Tailor" -- "Froim (A Sketch from Nature)" -- Our Jews in Towns and Villages -- "Srul of Lubartów'' -- The Doll -- Chronicles -- "Mendel of Gdańsk (A Sketch)" -- "The Anti-Semite" -- Part Three. From World War I to World War II -- The Popular Anti-Semitic Press from 1915 to 1929: Four Treatises -- Two Poems -- The Stranger -- The City of Herod: Palestinian Notes -- "The Bałaguła" -- Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition -- "Cultural Anti-Semitism" -- "The Anti-Semitism of Academic Youth" -- Part Four. World War II and the Holocaust -- "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" -- Holy Week -- "Elegy of Jewish Towns" -- Part Five. The Postwar Era: War and Holocaust Revisited -- "The Man with the Package" -- "The Mendelssohn Quartet" -- "Yankel's Last Concert" -- "The Branch" -- The Beautiful Mrs. Seiden man -- The Final Station: Umschlagplatz -- Selected Bibliography of Works in English on the Jews of Poland and Polish-Jewish Relations