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Author: Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies, Professor of Politics and European Studies, New York University) ,
Irena Grudzinska Gross (Associate Research Scholar, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9780199731671
ISBN 10: 0199731675
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 28 June 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
While British academics anxiously ruminate on how to demonstrate their 'impact' on the wider world to earn government funding, Jan Gross provides a powerful example of a scholar who has shaped a nation's collective self-understanding. Times Literary Supplement
<br> Starting from a disturbed posed photograph of paesant gleaners in search of post-Jewish gold in the soil of Treblinka death camp, Jan Tomasz Gross and Irena Grudzinska Gross have created in this profoundly moving volume a chilling, sometimes shocking, passionate, and yet always balanced examination of the extent to which plunder of Jewish possesion was often a communal enterprise in wartime and post-war Poland. --Madeline G. Levine, Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita, University of North Carolina<p><br> Jan and Irena Gross guide us expertly through the Heart of Darkness that was wartime Poland. Using a single, deeply disturbing photograph, this book captures brilliantly the whole terrifying rapaciousness of Polish -- and European -- society as the Jews face the specter of elimination. --Norman M. Naimark, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University<p><br>
"""lucid and chilling book"" --The New Yorker ""extraordinarily powerful account"" --Neal Gendler, The American Jewish World ""[Golden Harvest] is a remarkable, stunning work."" --Gila Wertheimer, Chicago Jewish Star ""Starting from a disturbed posed photograph of paesant gleaners in search of ""post-Jewish"" gold in the soil of Treblinka death camp, Jan Tomasz Gross and Irena Grudzinska Gross have created in this profoundly moving volume a chilling, sometimes shocking, passionate, and yet always balanced examination of the extent to which plunder of Jewish possesion was often a communal enterprise in wartime and post-war Poland."" --Madeline G. Levine, Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita, University of North Carolina ""Jan and Irena Gross guide us expertly through the ""Heart of Darkness"" that was wartime Poland. Using a single, deeply disturbing photograph, this book captures brilliantly the whole terrifying rapaciousness of Polish -- and European -- society as the Jews face the specter of elimination."" --Norman M. Naimark, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University"
Author Information
Jan Tomasz Gross is Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Irena Grudzinska Gross is Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.
