The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and CultureSamantha Baskind
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto has been used as a “recurrent tool” for “fashioning and refashioning” Jewish identity (p. 13), according to Baskind, who begins her study by exploring 1940s radio dramas that spotlighted the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and depicted the Ghetto’s Jews as armed and ready to...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 333-335 |
| Review of: | The Warsaw Ghetto in American art and culture (University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) (Prager, Brad)
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| Summary: | The history of the Warsaw Ghetto has been used as a “recurrent tool” for “fashioning and refashioning” Jewish identity (p. 13), according to Baskind, who begins her study by exploring 1940s radio dramas that spotlighted the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and depicted the Ghetto’s Jews as armed and ready to fight. This same combative posture has contributed to the advancement of the model of the “muscular Jew,” imagery that has been closely aligned with the foundation and protection of Israel. Baskind’s book, with its five splendidly illustrated chapters, deals mainly with the depiction of the Warsaw Ghetto in the visual arts, and, to a lesser extent, in popular literature. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa037 |