Żydzi niemieccy w Jeleniej Górze tuż po zakończeniu II wojny światowej

Author(s): Marek Szajda / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

This article presents the history of German Jews, survivors of the Extermination period, in Jelenia Góra in the years 1945–1947, that is from the establishment of the Jewish committee just after the end of the Second World War until the disappearance of this community two years later. This is the story of a group composed of people liberated from concentration camps as well as hiding in their homeland, including the “Mischling”. In the text, different aspects of the functioning of the German Jewish population are discussed in the context of the influx of Polish Jews from the territories of central Poland and the USSR, their relations with the Central Committee of Jews in Poland and the Voivodeship (the term corresponding to ‘province’ in many countries; translator’s note) Jewish Committee in Wrocław, as well as the state administration. The most interesting issue is the problem of the legal and social status of Jews who were striving to be recognised as victims of the Third Reich on equal terms with others, in this case most of all Polish Jews. Finally, almost all German Jews left the city during the deportation of the German population.

MUNICIPAL INTEGRATION OF SOUTHERN UKRAINE JEWS AT THE END OF THE XVIII-THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURIES: SETTLEMENT, MODERNIZATION AND PARTICIPATION IN SELF-GOVERNMENT

Author(s): Alexander V. Cheremisin / Language(s): English Issue: 13/2019

The article is dedicated to the research of Jewish population conditions in southern towns of Ukraine during the end of the XVIII-beginning of the XX centuries. Jewish population constituted a substantial part of southern towns’ population during the studied period. That is why the participation of the Jews in cultural, national and municipal life of southern Ukrainian towns is analyzed. Employment of the Jews in towns is characterized, too. The South of Ukraine from a legal point of view of the Russian Empire was marked as a limit for Jewish settlement, so the details of their participation in self-government are analyzed. The problem of the Jews’ participation in urbanization and modernization of the Southern Ukraine region is studied taken separately. Demographic changes in a part of Jewish population and in regard to their correlation in municipal councils are also characterized. The conclusions are made concerning the role of the Jews in urbanization of the Southern Ukraine region and their activity in municipal self-government.

Један поглед на књижевнојезичке изразе у Босни и Херцеговини у Вуково доба

Author(s): Miloš Okuka / Language(s): Croatian,Serbian Issue: 3-4/1987

A brief view is given in the paper on literary-linguistic expressions in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period between 1800 and 1878 in relation to the Croatian, Serbian, Muslim and Jewish traditions. In the end some factors leading towards the common standard are pointed to.

Teritorialni obseg judovskih verskih občin na ozemlju sedanje Slovenije pred drugo svetovno vojno

Author(s): Andrej Pančur / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 1/2008

The formation and territorial scope of Jewish religious communities in the territory of today's Slovenia was, before World War II, inseparable from the settlement structure of the Jewish population in this area. Thus the first Jewish communities formed in the context of Hungary in the Prekmurje region (Lendava, Murska Sobota and, temporarily, Beltinci), where Jews had been settling in more significant numbers ever since the end of the 18th century. In the Carniola and Lower Styria comunity, Jews only started settling permanently after 1867, and in 1893 they were included in the Jewish in Graz. After Yugoslavia has been formed, the former Kranjska region Jews joined the Jewish in Zagreb, while the former Štajerska region Jews joined the Jewish in Varaždin. The author of this article carries out a very precise analysis of how these Jews were annexed to the Jewish in Murska Sobota in 1929 and of the resistance that this annexation caused.

Recenzija: 1938: Auftakt zur Shoah in Österreich: Orte - Bilder – Erinnerungen / Wir gehörten hierher ... Über die jüdische Familie Scharfberg in Eisenkappel

Author(s): Avguštin Malle / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 1/2008

The review of: - Dieter J. Hecht in drugi (ur.), 1938: Auftakt zur Shoah in Österreich: Orte - Bilder - Erinnerungen. Milena Verlag, Dunaj 2008, 48 strani. - Werner Koroschitz, Lisa Rettl, Tu smo bili doma ... O judovski družini Scharfberg v Železni Kapli / Wir gehörten hierher ... Über die jüdische Familie Scharfberg in Eisenkappel. Založba Drava, Celovec 2008, 122 strani.

Paul’s Hermeneutical Art in Explaining the New Creation

Author(s): Randar Tasmuth / Language(s): English Issue: 1 (72)/2018

In order to understand Paul we have to comprehend the Jewish paradigm of hermeneutics. Paul seems to presuppose that his readers knew Scripture too and while building his exposition of the new creation on Biblical creation narratives he felt no need to explain it in detail. The tradition alone does not explain the ideas of Paul, but one is fortunate to find in his epistles autobiographical elements. He builds his case on his encounter with Christ that forced him to abandon his “former way of life in Judaism”. It appeared to have been a transformative encounter of pivotal significance. Paul recognised that it is only total fellowship in Christ, a shared destiny with him that matters and effects changes in human life. Paul expresses his personal commitment to Christ by stating that he now feels himself as having been crucified with Christ. On this basis the terms like transformation, metamorphosis, becoming another, becoming a new man, and new creation become far more understandable. The new creation applies to the community as well as to the individual. Participation in Christ is corporate and the renewed image of Christ in individual human beings means the appearance of a new humanity who lives by the Spirit and walks by the Spirit. Paul finalises his hermeneutical construction in Rom 8:29–30 with the hope for a change for the whole of creation. His eschatological point of view is not easy to explain. On one hand, on an individual and ecclesial basis, the outer nature of humans is wasting away. At the same time the inner nature – new creation – is being renewed day by day. On the other hand, resurrection of human beings is still ahead and creation is waiting to be set free from its bondage. New creation is at the same time an ongoing process and an event in the future. It is highly probable that Paul looked at the new creation through Christ as the lens. Christ is the agent of the new creation and thus the source of Paul’s views on the new creation.

Realism–4. Israeli Russophone Literature Today

Author(s): Roman Katsman / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Spisek i absurd. Obraz Żyda w literaturze rosyjskiego postmodernizmu

Author(s): Paweł Łaniewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

The figure of a Jew is one of the most common literary concepts in the works of Russian post-modernism. It arouses particular interest among artists from conceptual circles. A characteristic feature of Jewish characters of this type is bias, expressed primarily in the selection of strictly defined features, traditionally attributed to Semitic people. The abandonment of in-depth psychologization and the creation of a universal model of the Jew makes it possible to use this concept in a literary game, the main aim of which is to deconstruct certain phenomena of political and social life. The analysis carried out by the author of the article allows to observe the artistic and philosophical concepts used for this purpose, as well as the broader plan of the current social view of Jews and the Jewish cultural context. The figure of a Jew is one of the most common literary concepts in the works of Russian post-modernism. It arouses particular interest among artists from conceptual circles. A characteristic feature of Jewish characters of this type is bias, expressed primarily in the selection of strictly defined features, traditionally attributed to Semitic people. The abandonment of in-depth psychologization and the creation of a universal model of the Jew makes it possible to use this concept in a literary game, the main aim of which is to deconstruct certain phenomena of political and social life. The analysis carried out by the author of the article allows to observe the artistic and philosophical concepts used for this purpose, as well as the broader plan of the current social view of Jews and the Jewish cultural context.

Семантика возвышения в еврейской традиции и представления в русской ментальности

Author(s): Piotr Czerwiński / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2019

The Torah texts (the book of Genesis) are the base for the appointing and describing of the thirteen degrees-stages of Joseph’s raising as the characteristic and full from that is typical for the Judaic mental tradition. Then this tradition is described as a model to be compared with the examples from the Prophets (Mordecai, Daniel) as well as with other texts including the literary ones and the well-known historical facts.

Beyond Time and Continents: Irena Klepfisz’s Vision of Poland, America and the Space Between

Author(s): Michaela Weiss / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Podróż z Jakubem Frankiem — Księgi Jakubowe Olgi Tokarczuk

Author(s): Anna Jeziorkowska-Polakowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Jakub’s Books by Olga Tokarczuk talk about Józef Frank (1726–1791), the creator of “probably the most significant phenomenon of public life in which the Jewish communities participated in the beginnings of the modern era”. The writer, thanks to his hero, considered the successor of the leaders of the largest messianic movement, Sabbatai Zvi and Baruchja Ruso, guides the reader through the multicultural and multiethnic Polish Republic in the turbulent 18th century.

Karnawalizacja świata w chełmskich opowieściach Menachema Kipnisa

Author(s): Martyna Dymon / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

This article is devoted to Menachem Kipnis: a Polish cantor, journalist, satirist, columnist, songwrit¬er, photographer, and person fascinated by folk tales and Jewish folk tradition. Depicted in Kipnis’ stories, epon¬ymous Chełm happens to be a place existing first and foremost in imagination, which is abundant in grotesque and absurd representations of everyday life of its citizens. As it is argued in the article, this is the realm founded on folk superstitions, whose inhabitants seek wisdom: the value they deem to be of greatest importance.

Recenzje: Życie woli barwy złamane i wielokropek. O zbiorze Z Rosji do Izraela. Opowiadania

Author(s): Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Recenzje: Węzły pamięci. Rutka z będzińskiego getta

Author(s): Agnieszka Lenart / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Litteraria: Jakov Shechter, czyli odrodzenie metafizyki

Author(s): Paweł Łaniewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Litteraria: Полюбите слово. Беседа с Яковом Шехтером о книгах . Второе пришествие кумранского учителя и Самоучитель каббалы

Author(s): Roman Katsman / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2019

Litteraria: Gieorgij Fiedotow 1886–1951

Author(s): Marian Kisiel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Litteraria: Nowe na stary temat. W stronę współczesnego ujęcia kwestii żydowskiej Przełożył Marian Kisiel

Author(s): Gieorgij Fiedotow / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

67 A 90 Numaralı H. 1077 – 1080 (M. 1666 - 1670) Tarihli Kırım Kadıasker Defterine (Şer`iyye Siciline) Göre Yahudilerin Sosyo – Kültürel Hayatı

Author(s): Mehmet Caner Çavuş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2019

The Kadıasker Notebooks, also known as Şer`iyye records, are one of the most important sources of history research. Between 1666 and 1670, we examined the Crimean kadiasker book with the number 67 A 90 and made evaluations about the cases by examining the cases of the Jews’s routine lives in the Crimean region. These cases led us to understand and evaluate the social structure of the Jewish community living in Crimea in social, economic, administrative and legal fields. We have reviewed all kinds of details, from the names of the places where the Jews live, from the professions they work to, from their own cases to the cases of Muslims. We tried to put all aspects of the relationship of the İslamic law with the Jews.

„Izraelici czynili to, co złe w oczach Pana” (Sdz 2,11). Teologiczne aspekty upadku w Księdze Sędziów

Author(s): Dariusz Dziadosz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2018

The theme of the article is the Biblical concept of the ‘Fall’ elaborated by the Deuteronomic writers and theologians of Israel in the period of the Babylonian exile of the Jewish people (597-538 BC). The presentation of the theme is referred to the source material found in the Book of Judges, in which a theological vision of the ‘Fall’ is the main motif. The Deuteronomic editor of the Book of Judges presents the problem in question in the context of the difficult period of the history of his people, presenting a multi-layered conception of the fall of the human being, which is reflected in the religious, moral, social, and political aspects of the history of the Jewish people, as well as in the lives of particular Israelites. The paper comprises a synthetic review of the Biblical concepts related to the problems of the ‘Fall’ and reflects on the fundamental principle of Judaism, namely, the doctrine of Divine retribution. Against such theological background, selected parts of the source material, most representative of the theme in question, have been discussed.