Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Jewish, European, Eastern European, Russian
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Author: Danusha Goska ISBN: 9781618110251
Publisher: Academic Studies Press Publication: July 1, 2010
Imprint: Academic Studies Press Language: English
Author: Danusha Goska
ISBN: 9781618110251
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication: July 1, 2010
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Language: English

In this controversial 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 their Polish anti-Semitism. Bieganski discovers this stereotype in the mainstream press, scholarship, 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 Bieganskiand Shylockare both alive and well among those who have little knowledge of Poles or Poland.

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In this controversial 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 their Polish anti-Semitism. Bieganski discovers this stereotype in the mainstream press, scholarship, 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 Bieganskiand Shylockare both alive and well among those who have little knowledge of Poles or Poland.

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