Obraz Żyda w szmoncesie kabaretowym

• Authors: Krasowska Anna

Title variants

EN

The picture of a Jew in a cabaret szmonces

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article is devoted to reconstructing the picture of the Jews in szmonces cabaret of the interwar period. For this purpose semantic and semantic-formal mechanisms have been analysed on a variety of language levels: phonetic, inflexional, formative, lexical and syntactic. The linguistic analysis shows that szmonces applies the stereotype of the Jew, prevailing in the culture. This stereotype comprises the following: the origin and the unique language, being a mixture of Polish and Yiddish, appearance (a beard and sidelocks, a long coat) and characteristic smell, personality traits (sly, greedy, cowardly, etc.) and occupation (a merchant, a usurer, a banker, a craftsman). The presented picture of the Jew was a popular element of comic entertainment in the Polish cabaret before the Second World War.

Keywords

PL

szmonces; kabaret; Żydzi; komizm językowy

EN

szmonces; cabaret; Jews; humour; the interwar period

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Językoznawcze
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 125-139

Contributors

author

Krasowska Anna

• Warszawa