Polish Literature and the Holocaust

 "Sensitive and persuasively argued, Polish Literature and the Holocaust is both incisive literary analysis and a sober refutation of Poland’s present nationalist leaders’ attempt to rewrite history as a myth of Polish national innocence. Brenner’s study of seven literary works composed during and immediately after the Holocaust by authors struggling to comprehend and represent the morally dubious responses of Poles like themselves to the slaughter of the Polish Jews is essential reading." —Madeline G. Levine

“This moving and timely book gives a detailed and coherent account of the response of a number of leading Polish writers to the mass murder of the Jews on Polish lands. It is essential reading for all interested in the moral problems raised by the Holocaust.” —Antony Polonsky, author of The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History

"In this invaluable and groundbreaking contribution to Holocaust studies, Polish literary studies, trauma and memory studies, and ethics, Brenner (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) looks at the literary response of non-Jewish Poles to their experiences during Nazi occupation and to the genocide of Polish Jews who were often their neighbors . . . Meticulously researched and written, this book delves into a subject that heretofore has received little attention." —E. R. Baer, Gustavus Adolphus College, CHOICE (Reprinted with permission from CHOICE http://www.choicereviews.org, copyright by the American Library Association.)

 

“This is an important addition to a rather limited body of works in English on Polish Holocaust literature.” —Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Yad Vashem