Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Biographic Data
| ID | 316573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Feldhay Brenner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Feldhay |
| FAMILY NAME | Brenner |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNER R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4535-784X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Renia's Diary [Dziennik, 1939–1942]
The concept of a critical review seems misplaced in the case of a diary of a child-victim of the Holocaust. The inevitable emotional reaction to the young author's tragic fate complicates scholarly evaluation of the diarist's recordings of events, feelings, and thoughts. Whereas the story that the diary tells proceeds implacably toward an in medias res ending, or the violent death of the author, the invariably miraculous survival of the Holocaust…
Courage and FearOla Hnatiuk
Ola Hnatiuk’s ambitious Courage and Fear addresses the experience of L’viv (Lwów, Lemberg) during World War Two, covering the first 1939 Soviet occupation, the subsequent 1941 German occupation, and the post-1944 Soviet liberation, the de facto third occupation. The narrative extends from the 1930s and to Soviet rule up to 1956. This history emerges through the lens of the ethnically trifold population of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. However, the…
The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness, Confession, Challenge [Autobiograficzny trójkąt: Świadectwo, wyznanie i wyzwanie]
Book Review| December 01 2021 The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness, Confession, Challenge [Autobiograficzny trójkąt: Świadectwo, wyznanie i wyzwanie] Małgorzata Czermińska, The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness, Confession, Challenge [Autobiograficzny trójkąt: Świadectwo, wyznanie i wyzwanie], translated by Jean Ward (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019), 347 pp., index. ISBN 978-3-63-67427-7. Rachel F. Brenner Rachel F. Brenner University of Wisconsin-M…
On Becoming a Non-Jewish Holocaust Writer: Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil
To appraise Martel’s non-Jewish perspective of Holocaust thematic, it is important to assess it in the context of the Jewish relations with the Holocaust. Even though the Jewish claim to the uniqueness of the Holocaust has been disputed since the end of the war especially in Eastern Europe, the Jewish response determined to a large extent the reception of the disaster on the global scene. On a family level, the children of survivors have identifi…
And it snowballed from there”: The development of orthorexia nervosa from the perspective of people who self-diagnose
This study aims to include the perspective of those who share content about Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) on Instagram and self-diagnose with ON (SD-ON) to trace their development of ON, gain insights into risk factors, symptoms and recovery, and explore differences with those who do not SD-ON. This research used mixed methods, with a sequential explanatory design. The quantitative component (n = 185) aimed to identify biological, psychological, interp…
Jan Karski’s Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: A Transformative Experience
This examination of the life story of Jan Karski, “the one man who tried to stop the Holocaust” explores Karski’s failure to do so through an examination of his experience as witness and testifier of the Jewish mass murder. Karski’s recollections of his encounters with two prominent Jewish individuals in Washington D. C. and London delineate polarized emotional responses of disbelief and identification with the Jewish victims. Whereas Justice Fel…
Czesław Miłosz and Jerzy Andrzejewski: The Holocaust as Catholic Moral Crisis
This article examines the wartime texts produced by two deeply believing Catholics – Jerzy Andrzejewski and Czesław Miłosz. In 1942, at the time of the deportations to Treblinka, these young but already prominent Warsaw men of letters and believing Catholics engaged in a correspondence which examined the ethical crisis of the Jewish genocide and its impact on Christian humanism. Miłosz and Andrzejewski followed their epistolary exchange with lite…
Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Holy Week: Testing Religious Ethics in Times of Atrocity
Jerzy Andrzejewski wrote the novella Holy Week at the time of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This real-time Polish fictional response immediately raised critical controversy. Whereas some critics saw it as an inadequate representation of the Holocaust, others considered the 1945 version a product of socialist realism. Here the author argues that Andrzejewski’s wartime fiction investigates the viability of his Catholic existentialist orientation duri…
A Remarkable “Emotional Community” of Rescuers in Occupied Warsaw: The Cases of Zofia Kossak and Jarosław and Anna Iwaszkiewicz
Jarosław and Anna Iwaszkiewicz and Zofia Kossak were posthumously awarded the Medal of the Righteous among the Nations for rescuing Jews. The former hid Jews on their estate of Stawisko near Warsaw, whereas the latter was the founder of Żegota, The Polish Council to Aid Jews. Their responses to the Jewish plight, however, emerged from divergent pre-war ideological identifications. The Iwaszkiewiczes’ affiliation with Skamander, a pre-war avant-ga…
Dzieci modernizmu: Świadomość, kultura i socjalizacja polityczna młodzieży żydowskiej w II Rzeczpospolitej [The Children of Modernism: The Political Consciousness, Culture, and Socialization of Jewish…
The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives: In Memory of I. L. Peretz
Book Review| October 01 2018 The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives: In Memory of I. L. Peretz Alina Molisak and Shoshana Ronen, eds., The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives: In Memory of I. L. Peretz, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017). 386 pp., bibliographic references, index. ISBN 778-1-4438-9131-8. Rachel Feldhay Brenner Rachel Feldhay Brenner University of Wisconsin-Ma…
Leopold Buczkowski’s Czarny potok: Commemoration of a Shtetl as a Humanistic Crisis
Leopold Buczkowski (1905–89) is considered one of the most enigmatic Polish prose writers. Czarny potok (Black Torrent), his first postwar novel and his masterpiece, was critically examined in terms of its complex aesthetic. This article focuses on the thematic of Black Torrent, which centers on the destruction of the Jewish town Szabasowa. Thus, in one sense, the novel serves as a Yizkor Book, a testimonial of the destruction of a Jewish communi…
The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers' Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945
Personal Accounts of the War by Polish Writers in Occupied Warsaw: The Case of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Ideological Formations of Witnessing the Holocaust in Wartime Diaries of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Maria Dąbrowska
The Polish writers Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894–1980) and Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965) spent the years of brutal German occupation in Warsaw. Both witnessed the establishment of the Ghetto, the 1942 deportations, and the 1943 Uprising, as well as the attempts of the Jewish fugitives to hide on the “Aryan side” of the city. Yet their war diaries reveal contrasting attitudes toward the destruction of the Jews. Whereas Dąbrowska projected indifference…
Ideology and Its Ethics: Maria Da̧browska's Jewish (and Polish) Problem
This article is part of a project that examines Polish writers' diaristic responses to the Warsaw ghetto and to the Holocaust in general. Rachel Feldhay Brenner examines Maria Da̧browska's response in the context of her prewar attitude to Polish Jews, which was shaped by her nationalistic ideology of Poland's messianic position among the nations. Although Da̧browska publicly denounced Endecja and its antisemitism, in private she cultivated a powe…
Voices from Destruction: Two Eyewitness Testimonies from the Stanislawow Ghetto
This research note explores the influence of prewar cultural experiences on two eyewitnesses' responses to the Holocaust. While differences of gender, age, and social position affected the emotional responses of the two writers, the historical-cultural prewar context informed their ideological responses. Elisheva Binder, a young woman of twenty-one, was influenced by her literary self-education and her faith in the universality of humanistic ethi…
Discours de deuil et de renaissance: Dans la littérature israélienne postérieure à la Shoah à partir des œuvres de Leah Goldberg (La Châtelaine) et de Shulamit Hareven (Le Témoin)
Both Leah Goldberg’s play Lady of the Castle (1954) and Shulamith Hareven’s short story The Witness (1980) illustrate the failure of the Israeli to come to terms with the horror of the Holocaust. The play presents the story of Lena, a Holocaust orphan, who is rescued by members of the Israeli Yishuv from a Castle where she was kept hidden away during the war. The conflict that emerges runs counter the popular myth of the Holocaust victim embracin…
How to mend love? Wrestling with the legacy of the holocaust in recent Israeli fiction
The children of Holocaust survivors struggle with the legacy of parental trauma, which occurred before they were born. In three recent Israeli novels the nature of this struggle departs from the normative Zionist attitude to the Holocaust, which has affirmed the triumph of the national rebirth. Rather than subscribing to the Zionist orientation, which looks at the catastrophe from the standpoint of the “new” Jew, the protagonists in the novels – …
Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-Visioning Culture
The Artist as a Mother and the Birth of Terrible Beauty in the Post-Holocaust World: Ruth Almog's The Inner Lake
In her path-breaking study of Israeli women's fiction, Yael Feldman concludes her analysis of Ruth Almog's Roots of Air (1987) with an insightful observation. In this major work, Feldman claims, Almog trespassed into the male writers' territory and became the first among Israeli woman writers to produce an autobiographical fiction of the “portrait of an artist as a young girl.” Feldman concludes that, once the stage of “therapeutic” self-examinat…
Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-Visioning Culture
Despite the tragic reality of the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict, this book affirms the bonds between the two communities, showing that the literatures of both ethnic groups defy obstructive ideologies. Rachel Brenner argues that literary critics have ignored the variety and dissent in the novels of both Arab and Jewish writers in Israel, giving them interpretations that conform with Zionist ideology. She offers insightful new readings that com…
The Search for Identity in Israeli Arab Fiction: Atallah Mansour, Emile Habiby, and Anton Shammas
In a recent (1996) interview with Hilit Yeshurum, an Israeli journalist and translator, Mahmud Darwish, a leading Palestinian poet, discussed the indefinable borderlines between Israeli Jewish and Israeli Arab identities. Despite the politically adversarial position of the two peoples, Darwish perceives the situation as an interactive process which brings them together in a problematic, yet inextricable relationship. "It is impossible," Darwish c…
Hidden Transcripts' Made Public: Israeli Arab Fiction and Its Reception
Writing Herself Against History: Anne Frank's Self-Portrait as a Young Artist
Journal Article WRITING HERSELF AGAINST HISTORY: ANNE FRANK'S SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG ARTIST Get access Rachel Feldhay Brenner Rachel Feldhay Brenner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 16, Issue 2, May 1996, Pages 105–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/16.2.105 Published: 01 May 1996
The Search for Identity in Israeli Arab Fiction: Atallah Mansour, Emile Habiby, and Anton Shammas
In a recent (1996) interview with Hilit Yeshurum, an Israeli journalist and translator, Mahmud Darwish, a leading Palestinian poet, discussed the indefinable borderlines between Israeli Jewish and Israeli Arab identities. Despite the politically adversarial position of the two peoples, Darwish perceives the situation as an interactive process which brings them together in a problematic, yet inextricable relationship. "It is impossible," Darwish c…
And it snowballed from there”: The development of orthorexia nervosa from the perspective of people who self-diagnose
This study aims to include the perspective of those who share content about Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) on Instagram and self-diagnose with ON (SD-ON) to trace their development of ON, gain insights into risk factors, symptoms and recovery, and explore differences with those who do not SD-ON. This research used mixed methods, with a sequential explanatory design. The quantitative component (n = 185) aimed to identify biological, psychological, interp…
Hidden Transcripts' Made Public: Israeli Arab Fiction and Its Reception
Voices from Destruction: Two Eyewitness Testimonies from the Stanislawow Ghetto
This research note explores the influence of prewar cultural experiences on two eyewitnesses' responses to the Holocaust. While differences of gender, age, and social position affected the emotional responses of the two writers, the historical-cultural prewar context informed their ideological responses. Elisheva Binder, a young woman of twenty-one, was influenced by her literary self-education and her faith in the universality of humanistic ethi…
Writing Herself Against History: Anne Frank's Self-Portrait as a Young Artist
Journal Article WRITING HERSELF AGAINST HISTORY: ANNE FRANK'S SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG ARTIST Get access Rachel Feldhay Brenner Rachel Feldhay Brenner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 16, Issue 2, May 1996, Pages 105–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/16.2.105 Published: 01 May 1996
Edith Stein: A reading of her feminist thought
D'origine juive et devenue carmelite avant de perir a Auschwitz, Edith Stein a travaille sur des ouvrages de philosophie et d'education. Cet article s'attache a son oeuvre meconnue et analyse la pertinence de son orientation feministe qui impregne tous ses ecrits theoriques sur l'education. Elle a anticipe de facon etonnante sur la pensee feministe contemporaine. Ceci est a replacer dans le contexte socio-politique de son temps. Son projet educat…
A. M. Klein and Mordecai Richler: The poetics of the search for Providence in the post-Holocaust world
A. M. Klein and Mordecai Richler: The poetics of the search for Providence in the post-Holocaust world
Edith Stein: A reading of her feminist thought
D'origine juive et devenue carmelite avant de perir a Auschwitz, Edith Stein a travaille sur des ouvrages de philosophie et d'education. Cet article s'attache a son oeuvre meconnue et analyse la pertinence de son orientation feministe qui impregne tous ses ecrits theoriques sur l'education. Elle a anticipe de facon etonnante sur la pensee feministe contemporaine. Ceci est a replacer dans le contexte socio-politique de son temps. Son projet educat…
Between Identity and Anonymity: Art and History in Aharon Megged's Foiglman
In a recent article, “Israeli Literature Over Time,”Aharon Megged describes his work as “unremittingly concerned with burning national issues,” mainly with the issue of Israel′s relationship to the Diaspora.1 Megged′s intense preoccupation with the Zionist ideology of the negation of the Diaspora emerged in his 1955 story “Yad va-shem” (“The Name”). The story presents a scathing criticism of Israel′s dissociation from the history of the Diaspora …
Writing Herself Against History: Anne Frank's Self-Portrait as a Young Artist
Journal Article WRITING HERSELF AGAINST HISTORY: ANNE FRANK'S SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG ARTIST Get access Rachel Feldhay Brenner Rachel Feldhay Brenner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 16, Issue 2, May 1996, Pages 105–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/16.2.105 Published: 01 May 1996
Hidden Transcripts' Made Public: Israeli Arab Fiction and Its Reception
The Search for Identity in Israeli Arab Fiction: Atallah Mansour, Emile Habiby, and Anton Shammas
In a recent (1996) interview with Hilit Yeshurum, an Israeli journalist and translator, Mahmud Darwish, a leading Palestinian poet, discussed the indefinable borderlines between Israeli Jewish and Israeli Arab identities. Despite the politically adversarial position of the two peoples, Darwish perceives the situation as an interactive process which brings them together in a problematic, yet inextricable relationship. "It is impossible," Darwish c…
Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-Visioning Culture
Despite the tragic reality of the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict, this book affirms the bonds between the two communities, showing that the literatures of both ethnic groups defy obstructive ideologies. Rachel Brenner argues that literary critics have ignored the variety and dissent in the novels of both Arab and Jewish writers in Israel, giving them interpretations that conform with Zionist ideology. She offers insightful new readings that com…
Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-Visioning Culture
The Artist as a Mother and the Birth of Terrible Beauty in the Post-Holocaust World: Ruth Almog's The Inner Lake
In her path-breaking study of Israeli women's fiction, Yael Feldman concludes her analysis of Ruth Almog's Roots of Air (1987) with an insightful observation. In this major work, Feldman claims, Almog trespassed into the male writers' territory and became the first among Israeli woman writers to produce an autobiographical fiction of the “portrait of an artist as a young girl.” Feldman concludes that, once the stage of “therapeutic” self-examinat…
How to mend love? Wrestling with the legacy of the holocaust in recent Israeli fiction
The children of Holocaust survivors struggle with the legacy of parental trauma, which occurred before they were born. In three recent Israeli novels the nature of this struggle departs from the normative Zionist attitude to the Holocaust, which has affirmed the triumph of the national rebirth. Rather than subscribing to the Zionist orientation, which looks at the catastrophe from the standpoint of the “new” Jew, the protagonists in the novels – …
Discours de deuil et de renaissance: Dans la littérature israélienne postérieure à la Shoah à partir des œuvres de Leah Goldberg (La Châtelaine) et de Shulamit Hareven (Le Témoin)
Both Leah Goldberg’s play Lady of the Castle (1954) and Shulamith Hareven’s short story The Witness (1980) illustrate the failure of the Israeli to come to terms with the horror of the Holocaust. The play presents the story of Lena, a Holocaust orphan, who is rescued by members of the Israeli Yishuv from a Castle where she was kept hidden away during the war. The conflict that emerges runs counter the popular myth of the Holocaust victim embracin…
Voices from Destruction: Two Eyewitness Testimonies from the Stanislawow Ghetto
This research note explores the influence of prewar cultural experiences on two eyewitnesses' responses to the Holocaust. While differences of gender, age, and social position affected the emotional responses of the two writers, the historical-cultural prewar context informed their ideological responses. Elisheva Binder, a young woman of twenty-one, was influenced by her literary self-education and her faith in the universality of humanistic ethi…
Ideology and Its Ethics: Maria Da̧browska's Jewish (and Polish) Problem
This article is part of a project that examines Polish writers' diaristic responses to the Warsaw ghetto and to the Holocaust in general. Rachel Feldhay Brenner examines Maria Da̧browska's response in the context of her prewar attitude to Polish Jews, which was shaped by her nationalistic ideology of Poland's messianic position among the nations. Although Da̧browska publicly denounced Endecja and its antisemitism, in private she cultivated a powe…
Ideological Formations of Witnessing the Holocaust in Wartime Diaries of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Maria Dąbrowska
The Polish writers Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894–1980) and Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965) spent the years of brutal German occupation in Warsaw. Both witnessed the establishment of the Ghetto, the 1942 deportations, and the 1943 Uprising, as well as the attempts of the Jewish fugitives to hide on the “Aryan side” of the city. Yet their war diaries reveal contrasting attitudes toward the destruction of the Jews. Whereas Dąbrowska projected indifference…
The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers' Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945
Personal Accounts of the War by Polish Writers in Occupied Warsaw: The Case of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Leopold Buczkowski’s Czarny potok: Commemoration of a Shtetl as a Humanistic Crisis
Leopold Buczkowski (1905–89) is considered one of the most enigmatic Polish prose writers. Czarny potok (Black Torrent), his first postwar novel and his masterpiece, was critically examined in terms of its complex aesthetic. This article focuses on the thematic of Black Torrent, which centers on the destruction of the Jewish town Szabasowa. Thus, in one sense, the novel serves as a Yizkor Book, a testimonial of the destruction of a Jewish communi…
The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives: In Memory of I. L. Peretz
Book Review| October 01 2018 The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives: In Memory of I. L. Peretz Alina Molisak and Shoshana Ronen, eds., The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives: In Memory of I. L. Peretz, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017). 386 pp., bibliographic references, index. ISBN 778-1-4438-9131-8. Rachel Feldhay Brenner Rachel Feldhay Brenner University of Wisconsin-Ma…
Czesław Miłosz and Jerzy Andrzejewski: The Holocaust as Catholic Moral Crisis
This article examines the wartime texts produced by two deeply believing Catholics – Jerzy Andrzejewski and Czesław Miłosz. In 1942, at the time of the deportations to Treblinka, these young but already prominent Warsaw men of letters and believing Catholics engaged in a correspondence which examined the ethical crisis of the Jewish genocide and its impact on Christian humanism. Miłosz and Andrzejewski followed their epistolary exchange with lite…
Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Holy Week: Testing Religious Ethics in Times of Atrocity
Jerzy Andrzejewski wrote the novella Holy Week at the time of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This real-time Polish fictional response immediately raised critical controversy. Whereas some critics saw it as an inadequate representation of the Holocaust, others considered the 1945 version a product of socialist realism. Here the author argues that Andrzejewski’s wartime fiction investigates the viability of his Catholic existentialist orientation duri…
A Remarkable “Emotional Community” of Rescuers in Occupied Warsaw: The Cases of Zofia Kossak and Jarosław and Anna Iwaszkiewicz
Jarosław and Anna Iwaszkiewicz and Zofia Kossak were posthumously awarded the Medal of the Righteous among the Nations for rescuing Jews. The former hid Jews on their estate of Stawisko near Warsaw, whereas the latter was the founder of Żegota, The Polish Council to Aid Jews. Their responses to the Jewish plight, however, emerged from divergent pre-war ideological identifications. The Iwaszkiewiczes’ affiliation with Skamander, a pre-war avant-ga…
Dzieci modernizmu: Świadomość, kultura i socjalizacja polityczna młodzieży żydowskiej w II Rzeczpospolitej [The Children of Modernism: The Political Consciousness, Culture, and Socialization of Jewish…
On Becoming a Non-Jewish Holocaust Writer: Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil
To appraise Martel’s non-Jewish perspective of Holocaust thematic, it is important to assess it in the context of the Jewish relations with the Holocaust. Even though the Jewish claim to the uniqueness of the Holocaust has been disputed since the end of the war especially in Eastern Europe, the Jewish response determined to a large extent the reception of the disaster on the global scene. On a family level, the children of survivors have identifi…
And it snowballed from there”: The development of orthorexia nervosa from the perspective of people who self-diagnose
This study aims to include the perspective of those who share content about Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) on Instagram and self-diagnose with ON (SD-ON) to trace their development of ON, gain insights into risk factors, symptoms and recovery, and explore differences with those who do not SD-ON. This research used mixed methods, with a sequential explanatory design. The quantitative component (n = 185) aimed to identify biological, psychological, interp…
Jan Karski’s Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: A Transformative Experience
This examination of the life story of Jan Karski, “the one man who tried to stop the Holocaust” explores Karski’s failure to do so through an examination of his experience as witness and testifier of the Jewish mass murder. Karski’s recollections of his encounters with two prominent Jewish individuals in Washington D. C. and London delineate polarized emotional responses of disbelief and identification with the Jewish victims. Whereas Justice Fel…
Art (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · History (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Literature (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · The Holocaust (13 works) · Judaism (12 works)