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Bieganski : the brute Polak stereotype, its role in Polish-Jewish relations and American popular culture / by Danusha V. Goska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goska, Danusha V. (Danusha Veronica)
- Series:
- Jews of Poland.
- Jews of Poland
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antisemitism--Poland--History--20th century.
- Antisemitism.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Poland--History--20th century.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology).
- Ethnicity--Poland--History--20th century.
- Ethnicity.
- Jews--Poland--Public opinion--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--United States--Public opinion.
- Polish people--United States--Public opinion.
- Polish people.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Poland--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
- Poland.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the "Bieganski" stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are not. Their special hatefulness is epitomized by Polish anti- Semitism. Bieganski discovers this stereotype in the mainstream press, in scholarship and film, in Jews' self-definition, and in responses to the Holocaust. Bieganski's twin is Shylock, the stereotype of the crafty, physically inadequate, moneyed Jew. The final chapters of the book are devoted to interviews with American Jews, which reveal that Bieganski-and Shylock-are both alive and well among those who have little knowledge of Poles or Poland.
- Contents:
- Bieganski lives
- Bieganski in the press
- Bieganski takes root in America
- Bieganski in American cinema
- Bieganski as a support for Jewish identity
- The peasant and middleman minority theory
- The necessity of Bieganski : a shamed and horrified world seeks a scapegoat
- Interviews
- Bieganski lives
- next door to Shylock
- Final thoughts.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61811-025-X
- OCLC:
- 769190217
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