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Baskind, Samantha. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture. University Park: Penn State Univ. Press, 2018. Added by: joachim (5/24/21, 12:30 PM) Last edited by: joachim (5/24/21, 12:39 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0-271-07870-0 BibTeX citation key: Baskind2018a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Judaism, Kubert. Joe, USA Creators: Baskind Publisher: Penn State Univ. Press (University Park) |
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On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics. Samantha Baskind explores seventy years’ worth of artistic representations of the ghetto and revolt to understand why they became and remain touchstones in the American mind. Her study includes iconic works such as Leon Uris’s best-selling novel Mila 18, Roman Polanski’s Academy Award–winning film The Pianist, and Rod Serling’s teleplay In the Presence of Mine Enemies, as well as accounts in the American Jewish Yearbook and the New York Times, the art of Samuel Bak and Arthur Szyk, and the poetry of Yala Korwin and Charles Reznikoff. In probing these works, Baskind pursues key questions of Jewish identity: What links artistic representations of the ghetto to the Jewish diaspora? How is art politicized or depoliticized? Why have Americans made such a strong cultural claim on the uprising? Vibrantly illustrated and vividly told, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Cultureshows the importance of the ghetto as a site of memory and creative struggle and reveals how this seminal event and locale served as a staging ground for the forging of Jewish American identity. Table of Contents List of Illustrations (ix) Introduction (1) 1. “You Must Be Prepared to Resist, Not Give Yourselves Up like Sheep to Slaughter”: Heroism, the Muscular Jew, and the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943–1950 (14) Epilogue: “Will the World Know of Us? Will the World Know?”: The Warsaw Ghetto in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (238) Notes (253) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |