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Stranger in our midst : images of the Jew in Polish literature
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Stranger in our midst : images of the Jew in Polish literature

Author: Harold B Segel
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.
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Genre/Form: Translations into English
Literary collections
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Stranger in our midst.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)594806496
Online version:
Stranger in our midst.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)604089926
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold B Segel
ISBN: 0801428653 9780801428654 080148104X 9780801481048
OCLC Number: 33818901
Description: xiv, 402 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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)
Responsibility: edited with an introduction by Harold B. Segel.

Abstract:

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.

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