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Polish-Jewish Re-Remembering
The title of this monograph, Odpamiętywanie polsko-żydowskie [‘Polish-Jewish Re-Remembering’], refers to the post-1989, thirty-year-long process of reviving attention to Polish-Jewish relations in historical, cultural, and literary studies, including the impact of Polish Jews on the development of Polish culture, their presence in Polish social life, and the relationships between Jewish and non-Jewish Poles. That process had been preceded by a long period of silence that fell on the centuries-old presence of Jews in the Polish Commonwealth after their extermination by the Nazis. Jewish studies in the years 1945–1989, concerning both the very presence of Jews and their annihilation in the Holocaust, were very limited: the Communist authorities were interested in neither. As a result, the majority of Poles mentally operate with the Jewish world from before the World War II and with the Shoah as mere artefacts of the cultural processes of post-memory. (From Introduction)
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Why “Re-Remembering?” Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
BETWEEN ARIA AND GOLUS. ON POLISH, JEWISH AND POLISH-JEWISH LITERATURE
1. Magen Lublin (לובלין מגן .(Arnsztajnowa and Czechowicz. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2. The Shadows of the Jewish Lublin in the Polish Poetry of the 20th and 21st Century . . . . . . .45
3. Polish Jews in the Army of the Second Republic. Adolf Rudnicki’s Profile i drobiazgi żołnierskie . . . . . . . . 51
4. Christian-Jewish Relationships: Shalom Ash’s The Witch of Castile . . . . . 59
5. The Languages of Polish Jewery. Polish-Jewish Poets’ Linguistic Dilemmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
6. The Mythical Eastern Borderlands in Polish-Jewish Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . 91
7. Polish-Jewish Poetry in the Context of Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
FOUR SIDES OF TIME. LITERARY TRAVELS OF ARNOLD SŁUCKI
8. Polish-Jewish Warsaw. Lyrical Writings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
9. Two Faces of Russia. Biography and Poetry....................... 131
10. Idols and Idol. Interpretations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
11. A Polish Columnist in Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
TWO LANDS AND TWO SKIES. POLISH-ISRAELI LITERARY IMAGES
12. Poland and Poles in the Poetry of Israel-based Authors Writing in Polish . . . . . . . . . 173
13. The Double Messiah. Leo Lipski’s Piotruś . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
14. Poetry and Judaism. Anna Frajlich’s Israeli Poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
15. Literary Criticism in the Israeli Daily Nowiny-Kurier after 1968. A Reconnaissance . . . . . . . . . . . 207
IN THE TEXT WORLD OF THE SHOAH. ON THE LATEST POLISH LITERATURE
16. The Shoah and the Topoi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
17. Reconstructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
18. Transfigurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
19. Subversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Comparative Study of Memory. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Title Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Publisher’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Index of Persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .337
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