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Żydowskie autobiografie w polskich przekładach – kształtowanie kanonu. Rec.: Joanna Degler, Agnieszka Jagodzińska, Marcin Wodziński, Literatura autobiograficzna Żydów polskich. Tradycja, nowoczesność, płeć. Wrocław 2024. „Bibliotheca Judaica”. T. 12

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Adamczyk-Garbowska M.

Pamiętnik Literacki

2025

vol. 116

issue 1

225-231

Tekst zawiera recenzję książki „Literatura autobiograficzna Żydów polskich. Tradycja, nowoczesność, płeć” – autorstwa trojga badaczy z Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego zajmujących się studiami judaistycznymi. Monografia jest wynikiem realizowanego w latach 2018–2024 projektu w ramach NPRH, mającego na celu stworzenie, poprzez przekłady na język polski, kanonu żydowskiej literatury wspomnieniowej jako jednego z niezwykle ważnych, a niemal nieznanych źródeł do dziejów społecznych, historii kultury i religii ziem polskich. Opracowanie stanowi znakomity przewodnik po tym bogatym i mało dotąd znanym terenie.

This is a review of the monograph “Literatura autobiograficzna Żydów polskich. Tradycja, nowoczesność, płeć” (“Autobiographical Literature of Polish Jews. Tradition, Modernity, Gende”r) written by three Judaic studies scholars from the University of Wrocław. The book is a result of a project carried out in the years 2018–2024, funded by the National Program for the Development of Humanities, which aimed at creating a canon of Jewish autobiographical literature via translations of selected works into Polish. These works constitute very important and virtually unknown sources for the social and cultural history of Polish lands. The monograph is an excellent guidebook to this rich and insufficiently explored field

The Image of the Fragile Ashkenazi Jew

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Freilich M.

Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia

2019

vol. 17

1-8

The article examines the various presentations of Ashkenazi Jews in Israeli fiction. Ashkenazi identity in Israel is controversial both in everyday life and in fiction. However, the literary and artistic manifestations of Ashkenazi Jews are quite different from their political and social image. Ashkenazi Jews are usually portrayed as the intellectual, economic, and professional elite, and also as those who were responsible for the inequality between Jews who immigrated to Israel from Europe and Jews from Arabic countries. They are depicted by the Israeli media as those who forced the oriental Jews to settle in remote towns in Israel, thus denying them the ability to move up the social ladder. The arrogant, upper-middle-class Ashkenazi is often absent from Israeli literature. Israeli artists of Ashkenazi origin present themselves in autobiographical literature as “weak” or “problematic” and they add a “fragile” aspect to the Ashkenazi identity. The Ashkenazi Jew is depicted as an insecure figure who agonizes over fears and childhood traumas. The image of the “fragile Ashkenazi,” appears in some of the most prominent Israeli writing: Amos Oz’s A Tale of Love and Darkness, David Grossman’s A Horse Walks into a Bar, and Gila Almagor’s book and film Avia’s Summer.

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Żydowskie autobiografie w polskich przekładach – kształtowanie kanonu. Rec.: Joanna Degler, Agnieszka Jagodzińska, Marcin Wodziński, Literatura autobiograficzna Żydów polskich. Tradycja, nowoczesność, płeć. Wrocław 2024. „Bibliotheca Judaica”. T. 12

The Image of the Fragile Ashkenazi Jew