Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish

Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture (Jews of Poland)

In this study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the â€œBieganskiâ€ 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 Jewsâ€™ self-definition, and in responses to the Holocaust. Bieganskiâ€™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 Bieganskiâ€•and Shylockâ€•are both alive and well among those who have little knowledge of Poles or Poland.
Country USA
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Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture (Jews of Poland)