ISBN:
9781644695746
,
9781644695753
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Jews of Poland
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Friedrich, Agnieszka Bolesław Prus and the Jews
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Authors, Polish Attitudes 19th century
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews Social conditions
;
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
;
Boleslaw Prus
;
Congress Poland
;
Eastern Europe
;
Jewish Question
;
Polish literature
;
Positivism
;
Zionism
;
antisemitism
;
assimilation
;
history
;
journalism
;
modernization
;
nineteenth century
;
novelist
;
politics
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction -- 1. Prus's Predecessors and Contemporaries on the Jewish Question -- 2. Prus's Social Reflections -- 3. Prus on the Traditional Aspects of the Jewish Question -- 4. Prus on the Modern Aspects of the Jewish Question -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract:
Bolesław Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called "Jewish question" in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus' social concept reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises. The book traces Prus' evolving worldview toward Jews, from his support of the Assimilation Program in his early years to his eventual support of Zionism. These contrasting ideas show us the complexity of the discourse on Jewish issues from the individual perspective of a significant writer of the time, as well as the dynamics of the Jewish modernization process in a "non-existent" partitioned Poland. The portrait of Prus that emerges is surprisingly ambivalent
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781644695746
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