Creator Bio
Zygmunt Bauman
1925–2017
Born in Poznan, Poland, sociologist Zygmunt Bauman left Poland in 1971 after renewed antisemitic campaigns. Bauman was professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Leeds. His scholarship illuminates the Holocaust, modern life, politics, and contemporary society.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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On Frustrations and Prestidigitators
For the role of scapegoat, the prestidigitators chose Jews.
Rattling around in the recesses of their memory were recollections about how prewar governments in…
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Hereditary Victimhood: The Holocaust’s Life as a Ghost
Half a century has passed since the victory of the Allied troops put an abrupt end to Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question”—but the memory of the Holocaust goes on polluting the world of…