Lament i konsolacja. O dwóch obrazach Boga w tekstach z getta warszawskiego
Lament and Consolation: On Two Images of God in the Texts from the Warsaw Ghetto

Summary/Abstract: The author compares the descriptions of the two opposite religious experiences engendered in the period of destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, and the two images of God connected to it. One experience emerges from the consolation sermons of rabbi Kelman Szapira from Piaseczno, in which the immense suffering of the murdered Jews corresponds to the image of God, who suffers. The other experience is contained in the poem of Kacenelson Pieśń o zamordowanym żydowskim narodzie, particularly in the song 9 Do niebios, where the poet, after the vehement accusations against “the heaven” breaks the Israel’s covenant with God, and the murdered Jewish children take his place. The frame for comparison is the motif of transcendental tragedy, which originates as a result of the transformations of the antithetic images of God, combining in one schema of events, derived from the tragedy, the images of “God-tragedy”, blamed for the disaster, and “tragic God”, identified with the faultless suffering.

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