Romantyczne i modernistyczne wymiary prozy Szaloma Asza
Romantic and Modernist Aspects of Sholem Asch’s Prose
Contributor(s): Andrzej Fabianowski (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Sholem Asch; Judaism; Christianity; tradition; Romanticism
Summary/Abstract: The authors of the studies included in the book interpret Sholem Asch’s works, their universal meanings and references to various cultural patterns. Sholem Asch’s prose joins biblical values, the fundaments of Judaism and Christianity, history and modern age, Jewish tradition and Polish culture.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4698-6
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4690-0
- Page Count: 114
- Publication Year: 2020
- Language: Polish
Z ziemi polskiej w świat. Z romantyzmem w tle
Z ziemi polskiej w świat. Z romantyzmem w tle
(From Polish Land to the World. With Romanticism in the Background)
- Author(s):Daniel Kalinowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature
- Page Range:9-35
- No. of Pages:27
- Keywords:Shalom Asz; Judaism; Christianity; tradition; romanticism
- Summary/Abstract:The article shows Sholem Asch’s biographical and mental connections with Poland and Polish culture. In addition, the worldview factors, derived from the tradition of romanticism, and especially from the space of Polish romanticism, are presented in the Asch system of values. "As a result,, the Yiddish writer derived his thinking about literature as much from the Jewish tradition as from reading works by Adam Mickiewicz or Juliusz Słowacki. Moreover, in his project of public life and Polish-Jewish relations, Asch was of the opinion that, thanks to civic models represented by Berek Joselewicz, Tadeusz Kościuszko and Józef Piłsudski, peaceful and beneficial coexistence of Jews and Poles in one country – Poland – was possible.
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Między diasporą a wielkim światem. O przestrzeni kulturowej w opowiadaniach Szaloma Asza
Między diasporą a wielkim światem. O przestrzeni kulturowej w opowiadaniach Szaloma Asza
(Between the Diaspora and the Big World. On Cultural Space in the Stories of Sholem Asch)
- Author(s):Olaf Krysowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature
- Page Range:37-52
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Asch; Jews; community; space; diaspora; shtetl; tradition; myth
- Summary/Abstract:Some short stories of Sholem Asch, such as The Daughter of the Master, Dina, Cantor and his Choristers, My Most Beautiful Love or Beauty were translated from Yiddish into Polish by Stanisław Wygodzki and published jointly in 1964. The storylines of these works are focused on socio-cultural issues and show pictures of life in a small-town Jewish diaspora. The space in them is shaped specificically, as it is organized around the cultural values of the Jewish community. The great world which extends beyond the diaspora is identified by the writer with the Zionist dream of the Promised Land and with the return to the great ancestral culture of the patriarchs and the prophets. In turn, the diaspora is associated with narrow alleys of a small town, with an area of the nation’s everyday life, its worries, passions, typical activities (work, celebration, studying, reading the Talmud, praying in the synagogue), as well as existential, moral and religious problems. There is only one strange element in this bipolar composition – the vestigial nature of the description of the autochthonous territory, which (in the light of anthropological research) should accompany the images of ethnic groups forming “the community in the community”. The autochthonous space in Asch’s short stories is usually shown as terra incognita, an alien, dangerous land inhabited by suspicious representatives of local authorities or described explicitly as a space of moral decay, which disinherits the Jews from their traditions and dooms them to perish.
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Córka jaśnie pana oraz Uroda Szaloma Asza w kontekście realizmu modernistycznego
Córka jaśnie pana oraz Uroda Szaloma Asza w kontekście realizmu modernistycznego
(The Daughter of the Master and Beauty by Sholem Asch in the Context of Modernist Realism)
- Author(s):Wiesław Rzońca
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature
- Page Range:53-64
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Sholem Asch; realism; symbolism in literature; modernist realism
- Summary/Abstract:The author advances the thesis that Sholem Asch’s epic should be situated against the background of modernist realism with its specific features, which include „scattering the meanings” and focusing on the present of the world shown as if involuntarily. Thus, Asch creatively neutralizes the realism of the second half of the 19th century, whose ideological background was homogeneous.
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Zmagania z pojęciem ofiary. Czarodziejka z Kastylii jako nowela wiktymologiczna
Zmagania z pojęciem ofiary. Czarodziejka z Kastylii jako nowela wiktymologiczna
(Struggling with the Concept of Victim. The Witch of Castille as the Victimological Long Short Story)
- Author(s):Karol Samsel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature
- Page Range:65-77
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Sholem Asch; The Witch of Castille; Quo vadis; Heart of Darkness; Paul IV; Girard; Jung; "axiological metabolism"
- Summary/Abstract:In this study, discussing the previous state of research on The Witch of Castille, I give my own voice in the debate upon the theory of evil inscribed in Sholem Asch’s long short story. I express doubt about defining the text as "Jewish Quo vadis" and consider if the writer’s efforts to create the moral world of Paul IV’s Rome should not be compared (rather) with the effort of Joseph Conrad constructing the axiosphere of Heart of Darkness. To prove Asch’s distance towards the ethics of Sienkiewicz’s heroes and, on the contrary, closeness – towards Conrad’s characters, I analyze The Witch of Castille in the light of (1) the mysterial-sacrificial topic of René Girard, (2) the theory of symbols and archetypes of Carl Gustav Jung, (3) Tadeusz Kobierzycki’s "axiological metabolism", (4) Ernst Cassirer’s symbol-forming practices, (5) Shakespearean intertextuality of Asch’s long short story as well as (5) the theory of Kantean’s das radikal Böse, and among the other issues – (6) I also juxtapose the Conradian Leopold’s Kongo and Aschian Paul IV’s Piazzo di Judea.
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Kontemplacyjny wymiar opowiadań Szaloma Asza (refleksje przy lekturze opowiadania Żydowskie dziecko)
Kontemplacyjny wymiar opowiadań Szaloma Asza (refleksje przy lekturze opowiadania Żydowskie dziecko)
(The Contemplative Dimension of Sholem Asch’s stories (Reflections on the Reading the Jewish Child))
- Author(s):Ewa Hoffmann-Piotrowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature
- Page Range:79-92
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:Sholem Asch’s stories; romantic tradition; meditation; individual versus community; literary images of the rite of passage
- Summary/Abstract:The article attempts to analyze the Jewish Child, a story by Sholem Asch, (in the context of the song Crazy Mother written by the same author ) as a parabolic, meditative text with special contemplative properties, which due to the addressed issues (individual-collective relationship, human boundary situation) and construction (the structure of an “open work”) associates this work with Romantic heritage. The text brings out the special feature of Asch’s writing, which can be described as a connection between realism, moral or historical specificity and metaphysical depth, pulsating under the canvas of a realistic pictureand located in the spiritual dimension.
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Małżeństwo żydowskie w opowiadaniach Szaloma Asza – kryzys i siła tradycji
Małżeństwo żydowskie w opowiadaniach Szaloma Asza – kryzys i siła tradycji
(Jewish Marriage in short stories by Sholem Asch – Crisis and Strength of Tradition)
- Author(s):Maria Ciostek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature
- Page Range:93-107
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:Sholem Asch; marriage; tradition; crisis; anachronism
- Summary/Abstract:This article analyses the clash between tradition and modernity in the short stories written by Sholem Asch on the example of the institution of marriage. Asch was deeply rooted in Jewish culture, but at the same time, he strayed away from the tradition of his ancestors. He watches the world he knows so well from the outside. He notices the crisis of tradition among Jewish communities and exemplifies it through marriage, one of the most important Jewish rituals. In his short stories, he presents people who break the tradition bymarrying beneath themselves, not following all the elements of the ritual, choosing spouses against traditional advice. However, this neglect of tradition rebounds on the heroes – they are lonely, suffer from social ostracism, feel excluded, do not get along with the spouse or even die. Asch creates a hermetic world of a Jewish community which is slowly pervaded with unwanted changes. On the one hand, the narrator finds this tradition beautiful and loves it, on the other, it is anachronistic, rotten and destroys the characters in his stories..
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