{"product_id":"polands-threatening-other-the-image-of-the-jew-from-1880-to-the-present-paperback-softback-9780803220799","title":"Poland's Threatening Other; The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (Paperback \/ softback) 9780803220799","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePoland's Threatening Other\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoanna Beata Michlic (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780803220799\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e388 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.601 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Joanna Michlic's achievement is a comprehensive, balanced, thoroughly researched study of how Jews have been viewed by Poles, especially by politicians and writers. . . . The great strength of this book is its comprehensiveness and rich evidentiary base.\"—\u003ci\u003eNations and Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Michlic has given us an illuminating and readable survey of an important issue; she has written a book that scholars of Polish, east European, and Jewish history will be glad to have on their shelves and that will be of great service to them in their classrooms.\"—Ezra Mendelsohn, \u003ci\u003eSlavic Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn this provocative and insightful book, Joanna Beata Michlic interrogates the myth of the Jew as Poland's foremost internal “threatening other,” harmful to Poland, its people, and to all aspects of its national life. This is the first attempt to chart new theoretical directions in the study of Polish-Jewish relations in the wake of the controversy over Jan Gross’s book \u003ci\u003eNeighbors\u003c\/i\u003e. Michlic analyzes the nature and impact of anti-Jewish prejudices on modern Polish society and culture, tracing the history of the concept of the Jew as the threatening other and its role in the formation and development of modern Polish national identity based on the matrix of exclusivist ethnic nationalism. \u003cp\u003eIn the late nineteenth century and throughout the greater part of the twentieth, exclusivist ethnic nationalism predominated over inclusive civic nationalism in Polish political culture and society. Only in the aftermath of the political transformation of 1989 has Polish civic nationalism gradually gained predominance. As civic nationalism has become more assertive, Polish scholars have begun to unearth and critically examine the legacies of Polish anti-Semitism and other anti-minority prejudices. Michlic conducted extensive research in Polish, British, and Israeli archives for this book. \u003ci\u003ePoland’s Threatening Other\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to modern Jewish and Polish history, the study of nationalism, and to a new school of critical inquiry into the nature of anti-Jewish prejudices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href='\"http:\/\/nebraska-press.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/25175708\/Polands_Threatening_Other_errata.pdf\"'\u003eDownload a list of textual corrections (PDF)\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739998056728,"sku":"9780803220799","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/polands-threatening-other-the-image-of-the-jew-from-1880-to-the-present-paperback-softback-9780803220799","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}