The Ethical Dimension of Holocaust Fiction: Representations of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski in Leslie Epstein's King of the Jews and Andrzej Bart's Fabryka muchołapek
The Ethical Dimension of Holocaust Fiction: Representations of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski in Leslie Epstein's King of the Jews and Andrzej Bart's Fabryka muchołapek
Author(s): Iga Cemer-MatysewiczSubject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Comparative Study of Literature, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski; Leslie Epstein; Andrzej Bart; Monika Polit; the Holocaust;
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the ethical dimension of Holocaust fiction through a comparative examination of two novels: Leslie Epstein's King of the Jews and Andrzej Bart's Fabryka muchołapek. Specifically, the study focuses on the literary portrayal of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the Nazi-appointed chairman of the Łódź Ghetto. Drawing on Monika Polit's 2012 book Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. Prawda i zmyślenie, this analysis seeks to determine whether Epstein and Bart transgress ethical boundaries to imaginative representation of the Holocaust in fiction.
Journal: Acta Neophilologica
- Issue Year: 2/2025
- Issue No: XXVII
- Page Range: 7-22
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
