Desert Island, Burrow, Grave

The book is an anthropological essay which aims to capture the phenomenon of hideouts employed by Jews during World War II. Based on wartime and post-war testimonies of Jewish escapees, the author seeks to examine the realm of hideouts to develop an interdisciplinary perspective on this aspect of the 20th-century history.

This book is an anthropological essay which aims to capture the elusive phenomenon of hideouts employed by Jews persecuted during the Second World War. Oscillating between life and death, the Jewish hideouts were a space of the most diverse and extremely complex human relations a specific realm of everyday life, with its own inherent logic. Based on different literary sources, especially wartime and post-war testimonies of Jewish escapees, the author seeks to examine the realm of hideouts to develop a novel, interdisciplinary perspective on this often neglected aspect of the 20th-century history.

Autorentext

Marta Cobel-Tokarska is a Polish sociologist working at the intersection of sociology of culture, anthropology, literature, and recent history.

Inhalt

Anthropology of space Sociology of space World War II Wartime Jewish escapees Hideouts Hiding places