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• Title:The Warsaw Ghetto in American art and culture / Samantha Baskind.
  
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• Author/Creator:Baskind, Samantha, author.
  
• Published/Created:University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NX652.J48 B28 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Jews in popular culture--United States.
  Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)--In popular culture.
  
• Description:xv, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"An interdisciplinary study examining the diverse meanings of the Warsaw Ghetto in American culture. Looks at how the ghetto has been represented in fine art, book illustrations, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780271078700 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  0271078707 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  
• Contents:"You must be prepared to resist, not give yourselves up like sheep to slaughter" : heroism, the muscular Jew, and the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943-1950
  "I was responsible to the people who had played out that terrible hour in history" : Rod Serling, Millard Lampell, and familial conflict behind the walls
  "I am a Jew and what am I going to do about it" : Leon Uris, Mila 18, and muscular Judaism
  "I would like to paint one million Jewish icons" : Samuel Bak's painted memorials and the traumatic loss of the youngest generation
  "Our children, our children must live" : Joe Kubert, comics, and the saving remnant
  Epilogue : "Will the world know of us? Will the world know?" : the Warsaw Ghetto in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.