Kwestia żydowska w Odessie i jej wybrane kulturowe reprezentacje (Babel, Katajew, Schreiber)
The Jewish Question in Odessa and its Cultural Representations (Babel, Kataev, Schreiber)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to address the issue of the collective fate of the Jewish diaspora in the significant traumatic moments for the minority inhabiting Odessa since the founding of the city. Therefore, references will be made to the pogroms of the Jews, the “final solution” of the Jewish problem during World War II, the mass westward migration (mostly to the United States) gaining momentum since the late 1970s. All these elements will be considered in the light of Russian-speaking Jews’ contribution made in the areas of social, economic, and cultural life of the city. Tragic events areportrayed based on selected texts of the two leading representatives of the “Odessan galaxy” (i.e. Isaac Babel and Valentin Kataev), while the notions of annihilation and painful migration are exposed briefly in relation to the Liev Schreiber’s movie Everything is illuminated.

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