This Was Not America
A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History
Published on 27. October 2022
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Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-64469-840-2 (ISBN)
Description
From fleeing the Warsaw Ghetto and living underground to fighting for social justice in 1960s' Seattle and helping smash the communist system in 1980s' Poland, this is a narrative that erupts into critical moments in Jewish, Polish, and American history. It is also a story of the hidden anguish that accompanies and courses through that history, of the living haunted by the dead. The story is told through a conversation, often contentious, between Michael Steinlauf, historian of Polish-Jewish culture and child of Holocaust survivors, and the anthropologist and artist Elzbieta Janicka. It is illustrated with scores of photographs and documents.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Academic Studies Press
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 151 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64469-840-2 (9781644698402)
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This Was Not America
A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History
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Michael Steinlauf is the author of Bondage to the
Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust as well as numerous studies of Jewish culture in prewar Poland. He was one of the
founders of the
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Currently he is completing
studies of the Polish Jewish dramatist Mark Arnshteyn and the Yiddish culture
hero Y. L. Peretz.
Elzbieta Janicka is a literary scholar and visual artist. She is the author of Sztuka czy Narod? [Art or Nation?] and Festung Warschau, exposing violence and exclusion embedded in Polish dominant culture, as well as numerous studies of Polish antisemitism. Most recently she co-authored Philosemitic Violence. Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust as well as numerous studies of Jewish culture in prewar Poland. He was one of the
founders of the
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Currently he is completing
studies of the Polish Jewish dramatist Mark Arnshteyn and the Yiddish culture
hero Y. L. Peretz.
Elzbieta Janicka is a literary scholar and visual artist. She is the author of Sztuka czy Narod? [Art or Nation?] and Festung Warschau, exposing violence and exclusion embedded in Polish dominant culture, as well as numerous studies of Polish antisemitism. Most recently she co-authored Philosemitic Violence. Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
Content
1. Poland, 1980s
2. Columbia, 1960s
3. Seattle, first half of the 1970s
4. Brighton Beach, 1950s
5. Brandeis, 1979-88
6. Bondage to the Dead, first time around
7. Bondage to the Dead, second time around
8. Moses, Moyshe, Michal, Marys, Michel, Michael first time around
9. Moses, Moyshe, Michal, Marys, Michel, Michael second time around
10. Postscripts
Acknowledgements
2. Columbia, 1960s
3. Seattle, first half of the 1970s
4. Brighton Beach, 1950s
5. Brandeis, 1979-88
6. Bondage to the Dead, first time around
7. Bondage to the Dead, second time around
8. Moses, Moyshe, Michal, Marys, Michel, Michael first time around
9. Moses, Moyshe, Michal, Marys, Michel, Michael second time around
10. Postscripts
Acknowledgements