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Polish-Jewish Re-Remembering addresses Polish-Jewish relations, including the impact of Jews on the development of national culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, their presence in social life, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. The book consists of nineteenth chapters on Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish Literature from the interwar period to the early twenty-first century.
List of contents
Introduction: Why “Re-Remembering?”
BETWEEN ARIA AND GOLUS: POLISH, JEWISH, AND POLISH JEWISH LITERATURE
1. Magen Lublin (לובלין מגן): Arnsztajnowa and Czechowicz
2. Shadows of Jewish Lublin in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Polish Poetry
3. Polish Jews in the Army of the Second Republic: Adolf Rudnicki’s Profile i drobiazgi żołnierskie
4. Christian-Jewish Relationships: Shalom Acsh’s “The Witch from Castile”
5. The Languages of Polish Jews: Linguistic Dilemmas of Polish Jewish Poets
6. The Mythical Phenomenon of the Borderlands in Polish Jewish Poetry
7. Polish Jewish Poetry and the Child
FOUR SIDES OF TIME: THE LITERARY TRAVELS OF ARNOLD SŁUCKI
8. Polish Jewish Warsaw: Lyrical Notes
9. Two Faces of Russia: Biography and Poetry
10. “Idols” and “Idol”: Interpretations
11. A Polish Publicist in Israel
TWO LANDS AND TWO SKIES: POLISH ISRAELI LITERARY IMAGES
12. Poland and Poles in the Poetry of Authors Writing in Polish in Israel
13. The Double Messiah: Leo Lipski’s Piotruś
14. Poetry and Judaism: Anna Frajlich’s “Wiersze izraelskie”
15. Literary Criticism in the Israeli Daily Newspaper Nowiny-Kurier after 1968: A Reconnaissance
THE TEXTUAL WORLD OF THE HOLOCAUST: THE SHOAH IN RECENT POLISH LITERATURE
16. The Shoah and Topoi
17. Reconstructions
18. Transfigurations
19. Subversions
Conclusion: Comparative Study of Memory
Bibliography
Index of Persons
About the author
Author of numerous academic articles and books, Sławomir Jacek Żurek is Professor of Polish Literature and Language at John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, member of the Polish Society for Jewish Studies, and leader of the International Research Team “21st-Century Literature and the Holocaust. A Comparative and Multilingual Perspective.”
Summary
The title of this monograph, ‘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 Jews on the development of Polish culture, their presence in Polish social life, and the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Poland. The book consists of four parts: the first focuses on Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish Literature (dealing mainly with pre-1939 literary works); the second, on the post-war literary output of the Polish-Jewish writer Arnold Słucki (1920–1972); the third, on Polish-Israeli literary images in the works of writers who were active in Israel (1948–2018); and the fourth, on recent (after 2000) Polish Holocaust literature.
