Desert island, burrow, grave : wartime hiding places of Jews in occupied Poland /
This book is an anthropological essay which aims to capture the elusive phenomenon of hideouts employed by Jews persecuted during the Second World War. Oscillating between life and death, the Jewish hideouts were a space of the most diverse and extremely complex human relations, a specific realm of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Peter Lang,
[2018]
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| Series: | Studies in Jewish history and memory.
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| Summary: | This book is an anthropological essay which aims to capture the elusive phenomenon of hideouts employed by Jews persecuted during the Second World War. Oscillating between life and death, the Jewish hideouts were a space of the most diverse and extremely complex human relations, a specific realm of everyday life, with its own inherent logic. Based on different literary sources, especially wartime and postwar testimonies of Jewish escapees, the author seeks to examine the realm of hideouts to develop a novel, interdisciplinary perspective on this often neglected aspect of the 20th-century history. |
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| Physical Description: | 302 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-293) and index. |
| ISBN: | 3631674384 9783631674383 3653068819 3631708521 363170853X 9783653068818 9783631708521 9783631708538 |