Bolesław Prus and the Jews / / Agnieszka Friedrich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Friedrich, Agnieszka,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Poland
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Bolesław Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called “Jewish question” in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus’ social concept reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises. The book traces Prus’ evolving worldview toward Jews, from his support of the Assimilation Program in his early years to his eventual support of Zionism. These contrasting ideas show us the complexity of the discourse on Jewish issues from the individual perspective of a significant writer of the time, as well as the dynamics of the Jewish modernization process in a “non-existent” partitioned Poland. The portrait of Prus that emerges is surprisingly ambivalent.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction -- 1. Prus’s Predecessors and Contemporaries on the Jewish Question -- 2. Prus’s Social Reflections -- 3. Prus on the Traditional Aspects of the Jewish Question -- 4. Prus on the Modern Aspects of the Jewish Question -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index