Beth Holmgren

Warsaw is My Country (eBook, PDF)

The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska, 1928-1945

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This story of Krystyna Bierzy?ska, an acculturated Polish Jew, explores how she survived the Holocaust thanks to the efforts of her Jewish and surrogate Christian families and served in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Bierzy?ska's is a Warsaw story that demonstrates how, in urban interwar Poland, acculturated Jews at last dared to believe that they qualified as Polish patriots. Beth Holmgren is Professor of Slavic Studies at Duke University. Her recent books include Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America (2012) and Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures, co-ed. Yana Hashamova & Mark Lipovetsky (2016). Her current research examines the role of popular entertainment and the experience of its primarily Jewish performers in the Anders Army (1942-1946).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618117601
• Artikelnr.: 53292112

Autorenporträt

Beth Holmgren is Professor of Slavic Studies at Duke University. Her recent books include Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America (2012) and Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures , co-ed. Yana Hashamova & Mark Lipovetsky (2016). Her current research examines the role of popular entertainment and the experience of its primarily Jewish performers in the Anders Army (1942-1946).