Stranger in Our Midst
Subtitle: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: July 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780801428654
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Literary studies: general; Literature: Classics; Ethnic Groups In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Slavic (Slavonic) languages; Eastern Europe; Poland; General; Jews; Eastern European; Literary collections; Polish Literature; Translations into English
First sentence: [Jan Dantyszek was an outstanding representative of the early Renaissance in Poland.
Description: 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.