TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedrich,Agnieszka
TI  - Bolesław Prus and the Jews
T2  - Jews of Poland
SN  - 9781644695753
AV  - PG7158.G62 F7513 2021
U1  - 891.8/536 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Brookline, MA
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Prus, Bolesław,
KW  - Authors, Polish
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Jews in literature
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Poland
KW  - Jews
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Écrivains polonais
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Juifs dans la littérature
KW  - Antisémitisme
KW  - Pologne
KW  - Juifs
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Translated from the original Polish into English; Includes bibliographical references and index; Prus's Predecessors and Contemporaries on the Jewish Question -- Prus's Social Reflections -- Prus on the Traditional Aspects of the Jewish Question -- Prus on the Modern Aspects of the Jewish Question
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2932145
ER  -