KÖNYVSZEMLE

Author(s): Judit Domány,István Borzsák,Zoltán Gloviczki,Egon Maróti,Monika Pesthy,Tiborné Grüll,Nóra Fodor,Péter Prohászka / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1(2)/2001

RIMÓCZI-HAMAR MARTA: HORATIUS, VERGILIUS ÉS MAECENAS. Barátság és hűség Augustus Rómájában. Apollo Könyvtár 20. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 2000. 177 lap. FARKAS ZOLTÁN—HORVÁTH LÁSZLÓ—MAYER GYULA: ÓGÖRÖG OLVASÓ- ÉS GYAKORLÓKÖNYV. TypoTEX Kiadó, Budapest 1998. 200 lap. Ugyanazok: Ógörög olvasó- és gyakorlókönyv. Másodikjavított kiadás. TypoTEX Kiadó, Budapest 1999. 203 lap. JOHANN COOK: THE SEPTUAGINT OF PROVERBS. JEWISH AND/OR HELLENISTIC PROVERBS? CONCERNING THE HELLENISTIC COLOURING OF LXX PROVERBS. Leiden—New York—Köln 1997. XX + 391 lap. PARADISE INTERPRETED. REPRESENTATIONS OF BIBLICAL PARADISE IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY. Ed. by GERARD P. LUTTIKHUIZEN (Leiden—Boston—Köln 1999 Brill) (Themes in Biblical Narrative Jewish and Christian Traditions) 208 lap. TH. BAIER: WERK UND WIRKUNG VARROS IM SPIEGEL SEINER ZEITGENOSSEN. Von Cicero bis Ovid. (Hermes Einzelschriften 73. Stuttgart 1997.) 208 lap. OVID. WERK UND WIRKUNG. FESTGABE FÜR MICHAEL VON ALBRECHT ZUM 65. GEBURTSTAG. Hrsg. Von WERNER SCHUBERT I—II. Frankfurt 1999. (Studien zur Klassischen Philologie 100.) 1220 lap. RHIANNON ASH: ORDERING ANARCHY. ARMIES AND LEADERS IN TACITUS’ HISTORIES. London 1999. X + 246 lap. STEPHEN HINDS: ALLUSION AND INTERTEXT. DYNAMICS OF APPROPRIATION IN ROMAN POETRY. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge—New York—Melbourne 1998. 155 lap.

Niegodziwi pasterze i Dobry Pasterz

Author(s): Jerzy Bosowski / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 24/2020

Kontekstem podjętych badań było odmienne opisywanie struktury tekstu Ez 34 przez różnych komentatorów Księgi Ezechiela. Celem badań było odkrycie struktury, którą starożytny autor zaplanował i zapisał. Zastosowano metodę retoryki hebrajskiej, którą opracował Roland Meynet. Osiągnięto następujące wyniki badań: fragment Ez 34,1-10 ma strukturę paralelno-koncentryczną o schemacie: A, B, C, B’, A’. Fragment Ez 34,11-31 też ma strukturę paralelno-koncentryczną o takim samym schemacie. Wniosek, jaki można wyciągnąć z badanego tekstu, sprowadza się do stwierdzenia, że Księga Ezechiela jest aktualna dzisiaj.

Egzegeza J 11,1-46 w ujęciu retoryki semickiej

Author(s): Dawid Kontny / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 24/2020

Kontekstem przeprowadzonych badań było stwierdzenie, że różni komentatorzy wskazują na inne struktury badanego tekstu. Celem badań było opracowanie struktury tekstu przy zastosowaniu metody naukowej. Posłużono się metodą retoryki hebrajskiej, którą opracował Roland Meynet. Uzyskano wynik, który wskazuje, że struktura badanego tekstu schematycznie wygląda następująco: A (11,1-19), B (11,20-32), A’ (11,33-46). Wyciągnięto wnioski, że badana treść oznacza znak, który objawia władzę nad śmiercią fizyczną, przekazuje także informację, iż wiara w Jezusa otwiera na dar życia wiecznego oraz zakłada uzdrowienie miłości, a także zmartwychwstanie ludzi jest możliwe za cenę śmierci i zmartwychwstania Jezusa.

Godność ludzka w kontekście poszanowania kultu przodków przedstawicieli różnych kultur

Author(s): Izabela Szerszeniewska / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 2/2020

Godność ludzka ma uniwersalny, ponadkulturowy i ponadnarodowy charakter. Każdy człowiek od chwili narodzin aż do momentu śmierci powinien być traktowany z należytą godnością. Poszanowanie kultu przodków, stanowiące element ludzkiego życia w inherentny sposób wiąże się z godnością człowieka. Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie znaczenia godności ludzkiej w kontekście poszanowania kultu przodków przedstawicieli różnych kultur.

Kolekta o św. Katarzynie Deus qui dedisti legem Moysi

Author(s): Czesław Grajewski / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 55/2020

Interesującym zjawiskiem w oficjach o Św. Katarzynie z Aleksandrii jest modlitwa (kolekta) „Deus qui dedisti legem Moysi…”. Nie ma ona jednej, uniwersalnej wersji (jak np. „Pater noster”). Autor podzielił tekst kolekty na kilkanaście elementów (fraz), wskazując, że niemal wszystkie one mogą być rozmaicie kształtowane. Niektóre z nich są charakterystyczne – tym samym mogą wskazywać na proweniencję księgi liturgicznej.

THE FATE OF SLOVAK JEWS IN THE LOCAL PERSPECTIVE: REVIEW OF A HISTORY OF JEWISH COMMUNITY IN DOLNÝ KUBÍN

Author(s): Patrícia Fogelová / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

JAKOBYOVÁ, Barbora – NIŽŇANSKÝ, Eduard. Dejiny židovskej komunity v Dolnom Kubíne [A History of The Jewish Community in Dolný Kubín]. Bratislava: Izraelská obchodná spoločnosť na Slovensku, 2018, 240 pp. ISBN 978-80-971954-4-1

Holocaust Testimony, Autobiography, and the Effaced Self.

Author(s): Janine Holc / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Autobiography is often writing about how a “self” forms over time as it is affected by the conditions it encounters. This definition can be problematic for Holocaust autobiography, because hiding one’s self from others and repressing one’s desires and impulses became crucial to survival. This essay traces the processes by which a “self” emerges for one Holocaust writer and survivor, Helen S., through archival documents, testimonies and memoirs over time. Helen S.’s example demonstrates how an effaced self can have a textual presence before the writer can allow herself to fully inhabit a traumatic personal history.

Letters to the JDC as Autobiographical Sources of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

Author(s): Joanna Śliwa / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

After the Holocaust, Jewish survivors in Poland relied on external help, including that of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint, JDC). They wrote letters to JDC both to request and to thank the American-based Jewish organization for i.a. food, clothes, medicine, and assistance with emigration from Poland. Many of those letters also contain autobiographical information about the authors, themselves Holocaust survivors and their families. The descriptions of wartime experiences and survival strategies as well as of immediate postwar life (1945–1949) entail details and snippets of historical and genealogical value. Therefore, the letters examined in this article offer both individual histories and a collective portrait of the Jewish population in postwar Poland. The epistolary material also captures JDC’s activities and their importance for reviving and sustaining Jewish life after the Holocaust.

Shimon Samet and the Gap in the Story

Author(s): Yehoshua (Shuki) Ecker / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

This article offers a close reading of personal memoirs about coming of age in Żółkiew in Eastern Galicia and about transitions on the way to immigration to Mandatory Palestine before WWII. It focuses on gaps in the fragmentary autobiographical texts written by Shimon Samet, a native of the town, who became an accomplished professional journalist in Israel, and reconstructs missing pieces of narrative about Samet’s brother and about the Zionist micro universe of transition and training sites in Galicia of the early 1920’s. It points to significant explanatory possibilities gained by identifying such gaps in personal and commemorative narratives.

A People’s Biography: Ada El’evna Raichonak and Her Hermanavichy

Author(s): Anika Walke / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The article advances an approach to studying 20th century Jewish experience in the former Pale of Jewish Settlement that foregrounds individual biographies and places them in a larger cultural and historical context. Drawing on interviews and various other sources, this approach reveals, among others, how individuals challenge familiar categories of identification and thereby appeal to flexible research agendas.

Jan Tomasz Gross – biografia symboliczna. (Uwagi na marginesie …bardzo dawno temu, mniej więcej w zeszły piątek…)

Author(s): Michał Kopczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

The article focuses on the self-creation dimension of the autobiographic narrative by Jan Tomasz Gross contained in his book …Long, Long Time Ago, More or Less Last Friday… (an example of talk literature). In his analysis, Kopczyk brings out the biographic models into which the authorprotagonist inscribes his life, paying attention to their relation with the Polish patriotic tradition, and romantic tradition in particular. In the fate of the protagonist, he perceives elements of “a typical romantic biography,” including the motif of mission and pilgrimage (for one’s homeland). The conclusion of the article suggests a relationship between Gross’s self-creation project and his work as a historian revealing the truth about the fates of Polish Jews during World War 2 and afterwards. Inscribing his own biography into “good models” alleviates what Gross perceives as personal consequences of disturbing the social taboo related to Polish people’s participation in the extermination of the Jewish minority.

Bunt i melancholia. Obraz życia anarchisty w Memuarn fun Lejbn

Author(s): Piotr Laskowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

The subject of the paper is a unique autobiographical text written in interwar Poland by a Jewish anarchist. A small booklet in Yiddish, Memuarn oder shpliters fun a lebn fun Leybn (also known as Memuarn fun Leybn) was published in 1933 in Łódź; the Polish translation appeared in 2017 under the title Memuary albo okruchy z życia Lejba. In the first part of the paper the author of the text, Leyb Berkenvald, known as “Leyb the Anarchist,” is identified and described, with a focus on the social milieu to which he belonged, and his position on the map of interwar anarchism. In the second part, Leyb’s autobiography is analyzed from the perspective of the microhistory of affects to reveal an alternative form of male subjectivity emerging from the text, which countered the dominant, heteronormative model of masculinity. This specific form of subjectivity is interpreted – both in its hopes and disappointments – in the context of an unattainable messianic community which Leyb strove to conceive.

Poradziecka prawnuczka: (auto)biograficzna narracja międzypokoleniowa w powieści graficznej Soviet Daughter Julii Alekseyevej

Author(s): Karolina Krasuska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

The article analyzes the graphic novel Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution (2017), a literary text that belongs to a dynamically developing post-Soviet Jewish American writing, as a transgenerational (auto)biographical narrative of a great grandmother and a great granddaughter. The titular “Soviet daughter” refers primarily to the great grandmother and her political genealogy; yet because of the shared migration trajectory, ideological affinities, and the construction of the text itself, it can be also read as describing the leftist great granddaughter. The novel focuses on the flight survivors who lived through the war in the Soviet hinterland; moreover, because of the genealogical distance of it protagonists, it allows us for “adoptive witnessing” of the Soviet Russia, as well as the great grandmother’s communist past. In this way, the texts displaces American literary memory of the Holocaust that here intersects with the memory of the (pre-war) communism.

Matka-aktywistka: międzywojenna autobiografia Sofii Dubnow-Erlich

Author(s): Magdalena Kozłowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

The subject of this article is a case study based on analysis of Sofia Dubnow-Erlich’s autobiography fragments concerning the interwar period. A closer look at the autobiographical texts written by the activist and writer associated with the Bund allows to trace her approach to her own life plans. It also gives a broader look at the Jewish history of activism, and intellectual and political activity in the Second Polish Republic. Reading the memoirs allows us to capture the gender perspective and shows whether and to what extent the gender influenced the actions taken by the author.

Gender, emocje i praktyki życia codziennego Żydów na Dolnym Śląsku w latach 1945–1972. Narracja biograficzna Aliny M.

Author(s): Agnieszka Ilwicka-Karuna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

In this article we analyze one interview that is part of an oral history project about Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia entitled “Love in the ruins: the history of Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia 1945–1972.” All the interviews, including the one that is presented here, are focused on everyday life, growing up, emotions, and relationships of Polish Jews in Lower Silesia after World War II. The gender of the narrator plays a significant role in this project. Oral history is a medium in which we can acknowledge the experiences of the Jewish community that are not described in other sources, such as documents created by the Jewish Committee, reports from Jewish clubs, or even in written memoirs.

REVIEWS

Author(s): Maciej Górny,Aliaksandr Pahareły,Kamil Ruszała,Grzegorz Krzywiec,Eryk Krasucki,Piotr Głuszkowski,Tomasz Gromelski,Aleksander Łupienko / Language(s): English Issue: 120/2019

Review of: Aleksander Łupienko - Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kircher (eds.), Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism, Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2019, 416 pp., 14 ills., index, a note on transliterations and toponyms; series: New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies, 1 Tomasz Gromelski - Felicia Roşu, Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569–1587, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017, 216 pp., bibliog., index, ills., maps Piotr Głuszkowski - Jan Trynkowski, Polski Sybir. Zesłańcy i ich życie. Narodziny mitu [Polish Exile-Settlers in Siberia: The Birth of a Myth], Wydawnictwo Neriton, Instytut Historii PAN, Muzeum Historii Polski, Warszawa, 2017, 470 pp., index of persons (trans. Tristan Korecki) Eryk Krasucki - Elwira Wilczyńska, Diabli z czubami. Niemcy oczami polskich chło pów w XIX i na początku XX wieku [Some Devils with Crests. Germans in the Eyes of Polish Peasants in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries], Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Scholar”, Warszawa, 2019, 290 pp. (trans. Tristan Korecki) Grzegorz Krzywiec - Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Mówić we własnym imieniu. Prasa jidyszowa a tworzenie żydowskiej tożsamości narodowej (do 1918 roku) [To Speak on Our Behalf. Yiddish Press and the Emergence of the Jewish National Identity until 1918], Instytut Historii PAN and Wydawnictwo Neriton, Warszawa, 2016, 353 pp. (trans. Jerzy Giebułtowski) Kamil Ruszała - Elisabeth Haid, Im Blickfeld zweier Imperien. Galizien in der österreichischen und russischen Presseberichterstattung während des Ersten Weltkrieges (1914–1917), Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Marburg, 2019, 296 pp.; series: Studien zur Ostmitteleuropaforschung, 43 (trans. Jerzy Giebułtowski) Aliaksandr Paharely - Włodzimierz Mędrzecki, Kresowy kalejdoskop. Wędrówki przez Ziemie Wschodnie Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej 1918–1939 [Kaleidoscopic Borderlands. Journeys through the Eastern Lands of the Second Polish Republic, 1918–1939], Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 2018, 424 pp., bibliog., index, ills. Maciej Górny - Dagmar Hájková, Pavel Horák, Vojtěch Kessler, and Miroslav Michela (eds.), Sláva republice! Oficiální svátky a oslavy v mezivá - lečném Československu, Academia, Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, Praha, 2018, 532 pp., ills., index of persons, bibliography; series: České moderní dějiny, 4 (trans. Paul Vickers)

Wstęp

Author(s): Dominik Bień,Krzysztof Jakubiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2019

review at Ori Z. Soltes (Ed.), Growing Up Jewish in India. Synagogues, Customs, and Communities from the Bene Israel to the Art of Siona Benjamin, Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2021.

Author(s): Mihaela Gligor / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

review

Od redakcji

Author(s): Maciej Skowera,Marta Niewieczerzał / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The Mythisation of the Holocaust

Author(s): Katarzyna Jerzak / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The author of this review article critically discusses the book Dzieciństwo w la­biryncie getta. Recepcja mitu labiryntu w polskiej literaturze dziecięcej o Zagładzie [Childhood in the Labyrinth of the Ghetto: Reception of the Labyrinth Myth in Polish Children’s Literature about the Holocaust] by Krzysztof Rybak (2019). She examines the monograph in the context of, inter alia, the research already conducted in the field, literary works, architecture, memorials, the Holocaust victims’, survivors’, and witnesses’ testimonies, as well as in relation to the pos­sible symbolic links of the Shoah and the antiquity. The paper’s conclusion is that children’s literature can hardly prevent the mythisation of the Holocaust, but Rybak’s book proves beyond doubt the perseverance of myth. The banalisation, simplification, and trivialisation of the Shoah, as well as the issues of appropriateness and memory, are also important concepts that frame the author’s reflec­tions presented in this paper.