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On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. __The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture__ looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics. Samantha Baskind explores seventy years’ worth of artistic representations of the ghetto and revolt to understand why they became and remain touchstones in the American mind. Her study includes iconic works such as Leon Uris’s best-selling novel __Mila 18__, Roman Polanski’s Academy Award–winning film __The Pianist,__ and Rod Serling’s teleplay __In the Presence of Mine Enemies__, as well as accounts in the __American Jewish Yearbook__ and the __New York Times__, the art of Samuel Bak and Arthur Szyk, and the poetry of Yala Korwin and Charles Reznikoff. In probing these works, Baskind pursues key questions of Jewish identity: What links artistic representations of the ghetto to the Jewish diaspora? How is art politiciz

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Author

Samantha Baskind

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271081465

Category

nonfiction