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The first scholar who tried to categorise Judaic topoi in Polish literature was Władysław Panas. He pointed out a tripartite division of texts: the written Torah (Hebrew Bible, i.e. the Old Testament), spoken Torah (Talmud and post-rabbinic literature) and Kabbalah, all of which are known as a common treasury of images and a common cultural code containing an extensive corpus of topoi. This order was changed dramatically by the Shoah, which does not belong to the Judaic topoi, but constitutes new modern Jewish topoi. The first scholar who tried to systematise these new topoi was Sławomir Buryła. The article attempts to describe the presence of Shoah topoi in contemporary Polish literature (after 2000), using the example of Igor Ostachowicz’s prose (Noc żywych Żydów [Night of the Living Jews], 2012).