Editors:
- Explores how the category of “indifferent bystander” functioned in Polish culture between 1942 and 2015
- Analyses the discourse in this area, revealing how the category of “indifferent bystander” establishes the framework of talking and thinking about the Holocaust in Poland
- Contributors are participants and specialists of the culture discussed, leading to a critical analysis of the culture in which they partake
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Maryla Hopfinger, Tomasz Żukowski
About the editors
Maryla Hopfinger is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. She works in the areas of the theory of culture and social communication. She has authored numerous books and articles and has also acted as editor to a number of collected volumes. Her most recent publication in English (2010, translated in 2020) is entitled Literature and Media.
Tomasz Żukowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. He is a literary historian interested in the identity and discourses in the context of the Shoah. Previous works include The Great Whitewash (2018) and Under Pressure.(2021).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015
Book Subtitle: The Story of Innocence
Editors: Maryla Hopfinger, Tomasz Żukowski
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66408-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Rights Holder, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66407-7Published: 17 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66410-7Published: 19 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66408-4Published: 16 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 364
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Heritage, History of World War II and the Holocaust, European Culture