The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture

by Samantha Baskind

On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271078707
• ISBN13: 9780271078700
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.8" x 9.7"