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Alien City: The Vilnius Jewish Ghetto in Polish Texts of the Interwar Period
This article analyses the cultural images of the Vilnius ghetto and the methods of its categorisation in Polish-language texts of the interwar period in tourist guides, feuilletons, and poetry.
Walentyna Krupowies
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Odnajdując „wspólny język ognia”: Jerzy Ficowski wobec mistycyzmu żydowskiego (prolegomena)
Finding the “common language of fire”: Jerzy Ficowski on Jewish mysticism (prolegomena) This article is an attempt to outline the relationship between the work of Jerzy Ficowski and the Jewish mystical thought that was brought in this paper to a ...
Ewa Goczał
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“Being apart seems most interesting to me” – Charles Reznikoff and Piotr Sommer’s Translations
The focus of this paper is the Polish translation of Charles Reznikoff poetry. Firstly, there goes an overall characteristic of the work by the American writer, whose conceptions became a core of the objectivist group-program of young poets connected to ...
Joanna Orska
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The Poetry of Bohdan-Ihor Antonych and Zuzanna Ginczanka in the Context of European Modernism
This article compares the poetry of two prominent modern writers: Polish-Jewish poetess Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg, 1917–1945), and Ukrainian Lemko poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (1909–1937).
Khrystyna Semeryn
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Black humor in Władysław Szlengel works, with particular focus on Mała stacja Treblinki (A small station called Treblinki) Władysław Szlengel (1914–1943), was a Jewish poet writing in Polish. His works are the best example of the use of black humor
Adam Kowalczyk
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Odwoływanie granic (Biograficzne i poetyckie przekroczenia Jerzego Ficowskiego)
Revoking boundaries (Jerzy Ficowski’s biographical and poetic transcension) The article describes the phenomenon of “revoking” or transcending boundaries, present both in the family tradition and biography of Jerzy Ficowski and in his artistic choices.
Jerzy Kandziora
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Dragonflies and Holocaust The dragonflies occupy a special place in Jerzy Ficowski’s poetic universe. The Holocaust occupies a special place in his poetic reflection.
Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany
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‘As Though It Were A Sacred Relic’: The Troubled Holocaust Poetry of Julian Tuwim
The Polish-Jewish poet Julian Tuwim (1894–1953) was among the most widely read – and denounced! – writers of interwar Poland. Described as ‘a virtuoso of language’ in his beloved Polish mother tongue, Tuwim’s literary range was remarkable and varied ...
Myer Siemiatycki
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The author examines the relationships between a poet, geography and local memory in the case of the iconic Polish poet of Jewish descent, Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–1944), and her native region, today’s Rivne Oblast in Ukraine.
Khrystyna Semeryn
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Polish cities as a space of history in Boris Khersonsky’s Family archive
This article is focused on the so-called urban texts related to Poland with a special emphasis on the historical and geographical region of Galicia, which covers the territories of Red Ruthenia in Ukraine and Lesser Poland, and on their historical ...
Kristina Vorontsova
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