Bieganski the Blog exists to further explore the themes of the book Bieganski the Brute Polak Stereotype, Its Role in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture.
These themes include the false and damaging stereotype of Poles as brutes who are uniquely hateful and responsible for atrocity, and this stereotype's use in distorting WW II history and all accounts of atrocity.
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Love the images :)
ReplyDeleteBtw, saw this and thought of you...
http://yourjewishnews.com/4161.aspx
Interview with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski
..."Before coming to Israel, I reviewed statistics about anti-Semitism worldwide, and was proud to discover that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Poland was minuscule in comparison to most western European nations and the United States. And furthermore, it has been more than half a century since a murder with an anti-Semitic context has taken place in Poland. Poland is today renewing its tradition of tolerance and we are proud of this."
Na razie!
I like cover nr 7, with the big, drawn head with a hat:
ReplyDeletehttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jkzXQk7w-CQ/TepDyYch4VI/AAAAAAAAAR4/irAJTwmK0mw/s1600/7.jpg
I think the next one, nr 8, would also be interesting, though, a bit more enigmatic. I feel that the other ones with the people lining up and crowding the streets feed too much into the WWII imagery, and there is a preponderance of these covers.
I like the font!