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In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bożena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These representational strategies are distilled from the writings of Zuzanna Ginczanka, WÅ?adysÅ?aw Szlengel, Zofia NaÅ?kowska, CzesÅ?aw MiÅ?osz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Tadeusz Borowski. Combining close readings of selected texts with critical interrogations of a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches to the nature of matter, Shallcross's study broadens the current discourse on the Holocaust by embracing humble and overlooked material objects as they were perceived by writers of that time.

Reality in literature. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Polish literature --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- History of Eastern Europe --- anno 1940-1949 --- Poland

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At a time when Poland is emphasizing its distance from Russia, Polish Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers, and political leaders to Poland and to Polish culture shaped Russians' idea of themselves and their place in the world. Countering the recent trend to deny the rich interactions between Russia and Pol

Nationalism. --- Poland - Relations - Russia. --- Nationalism --- Polish question --- History --- Polish question. --- History. --- Poland --- Russia --- Relations