„Yerushalayim de Lite". Image o f Vilnius in the story o f Grigory Kanovich "Dream ofJerusalem, which no longer exists" Cover Image

„Jeruszalaim de Lite”. Obraz Wilna w opowiadaniu Grigorija Kanowicza Sen o Jeruzalem, którego już nie ma
„Yerushalayim de Lite". Image o f Vilnius in the story o f Grigory Kanovich "Dream ofJerusalem, which no longer exists"

Author(s): Agnieszka Lenart
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Grigory Kanovich; Yerushalayim de Lite; Jewish Vilnius; Jewish ethnos;

Summary/Abstract: The considerations made ??in the article concern the image of Vilnius in the prose of GrigoryKanovich, a writer, who in all his previous works remains faithful to the Jewish Lithuania, whichhe remembers from his childhood. The story of Kanovich entitled Dream o f Jerusalem, which nolonger exists has been carefully analyzed. The post-war Jerusalem of North is undoubtedly thecenter of the Jewish ethnos, a mythical place, unique, admirable, but also a place of disappointments,broken dreams, a city full of shed tears and marked by bloody events of the war. The themeof dream present in the work is at the same time longing for freedom, return to the ideal past, butalso a symbol of fear and memory of the place which will never be the same again.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: XIX
  • Page Range: 87-97
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish