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Author: Adam Michnik ,
Agnieszka Marczyk
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 16.00cm
Weight: 0.748kg
ISBN: 9780190624514
ISBN 10: 0190624515
Pages: 420
Publication Date: 08 February 2018
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
To understand anti-Semitism is to see its world history and to perceive it around us. To oppose it is to learn from others who have done so before us, in perhaps more challenging times and places than our own. This collection of important essays by opponents of anti-Semitism in Poland was, in its Polish edition, a generous gesture by Mr. Michnik towards his nation. In its English translation, it is a distant mirror that can help us see ourselves. --Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History, Yale University, and author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning This volume brings together the most enlightened voices of Polish intellectuals - poets, writers, priests, professors - speaking up in dark times against intolerance. Judiciously chosen and introduced by Agnieszka Marczyk and Adam Michnik (himself one of our most distinguished public intellectuals) it is indispensable reading for our time, when populism, xenophobia, and narrow-minded nationalism are again in ascendance. --Jan Gross, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, and Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz Against Anti-Semitism offers powerful testimony to the courage of those Polish writers and intellectuals who over the decades have dared to confront one of the most pernicious ideologies of our time, while also providing evidence of its endurance from one generation to the next. Given the recent rise of radical nationalism in Poland (and elsewhere in the world), this book will be a beacon for those who see the threat and want to confront it. --Jan Grabowski, University of Ottawa This comprehensive account of anti-Semitism and its opponents in Poland is essential reading for all those in the history of Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. --Anthony Polonsky, Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University
""It is an important, thought-provoking, and very timely publication, masterfully translated by Agnieszka Marczyk. Against Anti-Semitism is a powerful contribution to the ongoing debate about the dangers of antisemitism, and the under-lying reasons for its persistence.""--Jan Grabowski, Antisemitism Studies ""A collectively significant and seminal work of simply outstanding scholarship, 'Against Anti-Semitism: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Polish Writings' is a critically important and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library collections.""--The Midwest Book Review ""To understand anti-Semitism is to see its world history and to perceive it around us. To oppose it is to learn from others who have done so before us, in perhaps more challenging times and places than our own. This collection of important essays by opponents of anti-Semitism in Poland was, in its Polish edition, a generous gesture by Mr. Michnik towards his nation. In its English translation, it is a distant mirror that can help us see ourselves."" --Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History, Yale University, and author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning ""This volume brings together the most enlightened voices of Polish intellectuals - poets, writers, priests, professors - speaking up in dark times against intolerance. Judiciously chosen and introduced by Agnieszka Marczyk and Adam Michnik (himself one of our most distinguished public intellectuals) it is indispensable reading for our time, when populism, xenophobia, and narrow-minded nationalism are again in ascendance."" --Jan Gross, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, and Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz ""Against Anti-Semitism offers powerful testimony to the courage of those Polish writers and intellectuals who over the decades have dared to confront one of the most pernicious ideologies of our time, while also providing evidence of its endurance from one generation to the next. Given the recent rise of radical nationalism in Poland (and elsewhere in the world), this book will be a beacon for those who see the threat and want to confront it."" --Jan Grabowski, University of Ottawa ""This comprehensive account of anti-Semitism and its opponents in Poland is essential reading for all those in the history of Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."" --Anthony Polonsky, Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University
Author Information
Adam Michnik is a historian and editor-in-chief of Poland's largest daily, Gazeta Wyborcza. He was a leader of the student antigovernment protests in 1968, a Solidarity activist in the 1980s, and a negotiator at the Round Table Talks in 1989. His books include Letters from Prison and In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe. Agnieszka Marczyk is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where her work focuses on democratic citizenship and historical thinking skills. She is co-editor of Does Democracy Matter? The United States and Global Democracy Support.
