Kwestia żydowska
The Jewish Question
Author(s): Berel LangContributor(s): Anna Ziębińska-Witek (Translator)
Subject(s): History, Jewish studies, Special Historiographies:, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Primo Levi; Auschwitz; identity; Jewishness; the Jewish question
Summary/Abstract: This is a Polish translation of a chapter from Berel Lang’s latest book, Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, published by Yale University Press in 2013. Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jewish chemist and writer, is best known for his autobiographical accounts of his experiences at Auschwitz. His best known works, Se questo è un uomo [1947; If This Is a Man] and I sommersi e i salvati [1986; The Drowned and the Saved], present philosophical reflections on people’s behaviour and reactions in liminal situations. This chapter from Lang’s book deals with Levi’s sense of identity and the impact that his camp experience had on his understanding of Jewishness.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 354-370
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Polish
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