Poland's threatening other
Subtitle: the image of the Jew from 1880 to the present
By: Joanna Beata Michlic.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780803232402
Subjects: Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- History; Antisemitism -- Poland -- History; Nationalism -- Poland; Jews -- Poland -- Public opinion; Public opinion -- Poland; Poland -- Politics and government; Poland -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the concept of the Jew as the threatening other and modern nation building in Poland; title: The representation of the Jew as the threatening other : a historical introduction, part I; title: The myth of the Jew as the threatening other in interwar Poland, 1918-39 : a historical introduction, part II; title: The myth and anti-Jewish violence between 1918 and 1939 : instigation, rationalization, and justification of violence; title: Perceptions of Jews during the German occupation of Poland, 1939-45 : a new set of political and social circumstances; title: Old wine in a new bottle : Polish perceptions of Jews in the early postwar period, 1945-49; title: Judeo-Communists, Judeo-Stalinists, Judeo-anti-Communists, and national nihilists : the Communist regime and the myth, 1950s-80s; title: Conclusion : the beginning of the end of the image, 1989-2000s.