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Since the Enlightenment, the cultural creativity of Polish Jews has found expression not only in Hebrew and Yiddish, but increasingly in Polish. There has been mutual and dynamic interaction between the cultural systems, but, until the end of communism, the trilingual Jewish culture of Poland was little studied. In this volume, scholars from Poland, the United States, Israel, Italy, and Argentina investigate writers from across this spectrum and consider how they saw their Jewish (and sometimes Polish) identity, and what they thought of the authors in the other linguistic or cultural camps. Together, their essays constitute the first examination of Jewish literatures in Poland from the point of view of both linguistic and geographical diversity. The interwar years serve as the reference point, but material on the period before World War I and after 1945 is also included. The book comprises six sections. There is new research on Jewish literature in Polish, including discussions of less widely known works by Janusz Korczak and Julian Stryjkowski. Polish-Yiddish-Hebrew literary contacts are then reviewed, with important pieces on Y.L. Peretz's early work, the translation of Hayim Nahman Bialik's poetry into Polish, the influence of Polish writers on Sholem Asch's early plays, and the reception of Yosef Opatoshu's novels in interwar Poland. The next section explores the images of Poles and Poland in the work of Jewish writers and of Jews in the work of Polish authors, for instance in the work of the Hebrew Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon and the Polish writer Stanislaw Vincenz. The subsequent section looks at avant-garde art and modern ideologies, with discussions of Bruno Schulz's graphic works and why communism appealed to some Jewish writers. Discussion then moves to questions of identity, with a special focus on Julian Tuwim, one of the greatest Polish poets, an assimilated Jew attacked by Polish nationalists on the one hand and Yiddishists on the other. The last group of essays in the collection looks at different 'exiles, ' understood both literally and metaphorically and encompassing works created in Poland, Israel, and Argentina. In spite of this wide range of themes, the coverage of the topic is not exhaustive: there are still very few studies of Polish-Hebrew literary contacts, and although more has been written about Yiddish writers in Poland there are still areas requiring a comparative perspective. This is a major study of topics which have rarely been discussed in English, especially Jewish literature written in Polish. The articles should appeal to all students of literature, and particularly to those interested in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew creativity understood as a rich cultural polysystem.
CONTRIBUTORS
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Maria Antosik-Piela, Dorota Burda-Fischer, Nathan Cohen, Ofer Dynes, Karolina Famulska-Ciesielska, Ellen Kellman, Zuzanna Kołodziejska, Ber Kotlerman, Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska, Aviv Livnat, Piotr Matywiecki, Alina Molisak, Joanna Nalewejko-Kulikov, Władysław Panas, Ireneusz Piekarski, Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, Laura Quercioli Mincer, Gil Rabak, Shoshana Ronen, Maxim D. Shrayer, Dariusz Konrad Sikorksi, Perla Sneh, Monika Szabłowska-Zaremba, Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota, Karolina Szymaniak, Miriam Udel, Karen Underhill, Bożena Wojnowska, Marzena Zawanowska, Sławomir Jacek Żurek.
Contents
Note on Place Names
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
MONIKA ADAMCZYK-GARBOWSKA AND EUGENIA PROKOP-JANIEC
PART I: REDISCOVERING POLISH JEWISH LITERATURE
The Writing and the Wound: On Polish Jewish Literature
WŁADYSŁAW PANAS
Ethical Concepts in the Interwar Dispute in the Press on Jewish Culture
DARIUSZ KONRAD SIKORSKI
'Mr Nossig's Latest Transformation', or, Alfred Nossig as a Writer
MARIA ANTOSIK-PIELA
Janusz Korczak's Midrash: Dzieci Biblii: Mojżesz
BOŻENA WOJNOWSKA
Czesława Rosenblattowa's Works as an Example of Women's Integrationist Literature
ZUZANNA KOŁODZIEJSKA
The Long Path to Becoming a Writer; Julian Stryjkowski as Translator and Reviewer
IRENEUSZ PIEKARSKI
PART 2: POLISH-YIDDISH-HEBREW LITERARY CONTACTS
Polish Whiskers and the Jewish Tongue: On Y. L. Peretz Not Becoming a Polish Writer
OFER DYNES
Sholem Asch's Polish-Language Theatrical Debut
ANNA KULIGOWSKA-KORZENIEWSKA
Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon on the Revival of Hebrew Literature: From Revolutionism to a Moderate Conservatism
SHOSHANA RONEN
Speaking Back: On Some Aspects of the Reception of Polish Literature in Yiddish Literary Criticism
KAROLINA SZYMANIAK
Reading Polish among Young Jewish People
NATHAN COHEN
Hayim Nahman Bialik and Shlomo Dykman: Polish-Jewish Literary Encounters in the Inter-War Period
MARZENA ZAWANOWSKA
Reading Opatoshu in the Years 1918-1939: The Polish Perspective
EUGENIA PROKOP-JANIEC
PART 3: MUTUAL PERCEPTIONS
Between Germany and Russia: Images of Poles and the Ensuing Cultural Trajectories among Yiddish and Hebrew Writers between 1863 and the First World War
GIL RIBAK
Romanticization and Criticism in Agnon's Poland Stories: Polish Jewry as an Archetype of a Jewish Community in the Exile
BER KOTLERMAN
A Hasid among the Goyim: Jewish Themes in Stanisław Vincenz's Na wysokiej połoninie
DOROTA BURDA-FISCHER
PART 4: AT THE CROSSROADS OF AVANT-GARDE ART AND MODERN IDEOLOGIES
Sefirot, Wanderings, and Superstructures: Futurism in the Polish Yiddish Arena
AVIV LIVNAT
When Narration is the Only Salvation: Yisroel Rabon's Modernist Picaresque
MIRIAM UDEL
'What Have You Done with the Book?': The Exegetical 'Encounter' in Bruno Schulz's Graphic Works
KAREN UNDERHILL
Yiddish Form, Communist Content: Jewish Communist Writers in Warsaw in the 1930s
JOANNA NALEWAJKO-KULIKOV
The Neva Ever New: Depictions of the Soviet Union in the Work of Stanisław Wygodzki
MONIKA SZABŁOWSKA-ZAREMBA
PART 5: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY
Julian Tuwim's Jewish Theatre
PIOTR MATYWIECKI
Jewish Jews on Tuwim
BELLA SZWARCMAN-CZARNOTA
The Descendant of Rashi in Lubyanka: The Metaphysical Identity Transformations of Aleksander Wat in Mój wiek
LAURA QUERCIOLI MINCER
'Judaizm jako los': On the Essay by Bogdan Wojdowski
ALINA MOLISAK
PART 6: DIFFERENT EXILES
Goles Varshe (Exile in Warsaw): The Kultur-Lige in Poland, 1921-1924
ELLEN KELLMAN
From Tyszowce to Tel Aviv: The Journalism of Arnold Słucki in Israel's Polish Press
SŁAWOMIR JACEK ŻUREK
Authors Writing in Polish in Israel
KAROLINA FAMULSKA-CIESIELSKA
Polin Down South: Among Mysteries and Silences. On Polish Jewish Literary Legacies in Argentina
PERLA SNEH
Pawel Antokolsky as a Witness to the Shoah in Ukraine and Poland
MAXIM D. SHRAYER
Notes on the Contributors
Index
