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Between Fascination and Reproach. Jews and Judaism in the Writings of Rev. Prof.  Józef Kruszyński (1877–1953), Pre-war Rector of the Catholic University of LublinIn the first part of the essay, the author presents a sketch of the life and works of Rev. Józef Kruszyński, the Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin. In the second part she analyzes Kruszyński’s anti-Jewish writings, collected in the series "From the Field of Jew Studies", setting them against the backdrop of his broad literary and academic work, most of which was made up by his original translations (including his translation of books of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Polish) and publications focused on the study of the Bible. Finally, the author retraces and examines the emergence of Kruszyński’s anti-Jewish views.Pomiędzy fascynacją a potępieniem. Żydzi i judaizm w pismach oraz biografii ks. prof. Józefa Kruszyńskiego (1877–1953) – przedwojennego rektora Katolickiego Uniwersytetu LubelskiegoW pierwszej części artykułu autorka przedstawia życie i działalność księdza Józefa Kruszyńskiego, rektora Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego. Druga część zawiera analizę publicystyki antyżydowskiej publikowanej w serii „Z Dziedziny Żydoznawstwa” na tle ogólnej, bogatej twórczości Kruszyńskiego, której większość stanowią prace biblistyczne oraz translatorskie (tłumaczenie z hebrajskiego na polski ksiąg Starego Testamentu). W końcowej części autorka śledzi początki i źródła antyżydowskich poglądów Kruszyńskiego.
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The concept of pragmateme as witnessed in various discursive settings is analyzed. It is demonstrated to be dependent on a diaphasic variant at work - it can be felicitously applied to utterances whose value hinges on the communicative context, and it proves inherent to the speechproduction of a given individual. Likewise, its value may depend on communicative circumstances and might be specific to a given speech community. Convenient examples are provided by the anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist discourses of the acclaimed French performer Dieudonné fanciers. Pragmateme’s instance taken into consideration relies on a single phonetic shape \ʃ ɔ.a.na.nɑ\ likely to correspond to two different spellings [chaud ananas] [Shoah nana]. It misrepresents the figure of a Jew, whose depreciating image tightens the ties between community members, where antiSemitism is perceived as an overarching value.
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The concept of pragmateme as witnessed in various discursive settings is analyzed. It is demonstrated to be dependent on a diaphasic variant at work - it can be felicitously applied to utterances whose value hinges on the communicative context, and it proves inherent to the speech production of a given individual. Likewise, its value may depend on communicative circumstances and might be specific to a given speech community. Convenient examples are provided by the anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist discourses of the acclaimed French performer Dieudonné fanciers. Pragmateme’s instance taken into consideration relies on a single phonetic shape \ʃ ɔ.a.na.nɑ\ likely to correspond to two different spellings [chaud ananas] [Shoah nana]. It misrepresents the figure of a Jew, whose depreciating image tightens the ties between community members, where antiSemitism is perceived as an overarching value.
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A manuscript of Pejsach Bergman of blessed memory, according to a copy receivedfrom his son, Bronisław BergmanThe text by Pesach Bergman (1898–1944) is an excerpt from his fictionalized memoirs about the life of the shtetl of Widawa from the late 19th century to the 1930s. Written in Yiddish, it was translated into Polish by Dr. Marcin Urynowicz with the assistance of Sara Arm. It constitutes an original and unique literary genre, which is closest to the meditation (Latin: soliloquia), combining elements of social criticism and sentimental recollections. Manuskrypt błogosławionej pamięci Pejsacha Bergmana, wedle kopii przekazanej przez syna, Bronisława BergmanaTekst Pesacha Bergmana (1898–1944) pochodzi z jego fabularyzowanych wspomnień, dotyczących życia sztetlu Widawa w okresie od końca XIX wieku do lat trzydziestych wieku XX. Został zapisany w języku żydowskim, z którego – z pomocą Sary Arm – przełożył go dr Marcin Urynowicz. Ustanawia oryginalny, właściwy tylko sobie gatunek literacki, najbliższy rozmyślaniom (łac. soliloquia), łączącym elementy krytyki społecznej i sentymentalnego wspomnienia.
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This article is based on the available philosophical and historical Holocaust studies and offers a critical review of the reception of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical concepts of antisemitism and Jewish history, including Shoah.
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Antisemitism has unfortunately persisted throughout history, and the COVID-19 pandemic has not been an exception to this troubling trend. The conditions created by the pandemic, such as fear, uncertainty, and anxiety, have fueled the emergence and spread of conspiracy theories targeting various groups, including Jewish communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a plethora of baseless beliefs and conspiracy theories about its causes, which have contributed to the rise of antisemitism during this time. Pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, inherently create anxiety and uncertainty among populations. This change has affected many areas, both political and social. Conspiracy theories that base the cause of the emergence of COVID-19 on Jewish identity are an essential factor for this study. Tendencies toward antisemitism and scapegoating have supported these conspiracy theories. In this study, how antisemitism manifested itself in media and online discourse during COVID-19 and how Jewish identity is affected by the process.
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The review article discusses the new collective work on the history of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands, which has been written by a Czech-American- German team. Its achievements are assessed within the context of recent historiography on the Jews in the Bohemian lands. The review reveals flaws in the chapters on early modern history and intentional manipulations of facts plus anti-Czech bias in the chapters on the 20th century. The reviewer argues that this interpretation imitates the way US historians are writing about Central Europe. This book aims to strengthen the xenophobic stereotypes about East-European peoples.
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The article presents a fragment of memoirs of Klemens Nussbaum, former officer of Polish People’s Army (ludowe Wojsko Polskie), who fled Poland in 1969. His relation was written down after some years of living in Israel and deposited in one of archives in Tel Aviv. It bears witness to his military service, Polish–Jewish relations and the change in author’s attitude to Poland. It contains statements about experiencing anti-Semitism and about life in the Stalinist period.
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The article discusses Jewish conversions to Catholicism in Poland before 1795, presenting the issue from the perspective of discourses of anthropology, religion, and, importantly, class stratification, with reference to the most important European contexts. The survey of source texts includes selected authors, such as Wacław Potocki or Walerian Nekanda Trepka, allowing for an introductory sketch of relations between the idea of nobility, anti-Judaism, and antisemitism.
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The article is a reaction to the second edtion of Józef Czechowicz’s Letters (2011), which the author compares to the first edition (1977). It turns out that the poet’s letters, when they went through censorship screening in the 1970s, were purged not only of politically charged passages, where he mentions Miłosz, Czuchnowski, Iwaniuk, and Łobodowski, as well as the critical passages about Marxism, but also his remarks about Jews, remarks that were mostly antisemitic and stereotypical. The analysis of these passages is confronted with Czechowicz’s photographs of the Jewish quarter in Lublin and with the “Jewish traces” in his poetry. Above all, however, the discussion focuses on the language of violence, exposed in the poem śmierć [death] in the volume called dzień jak co dzień. The poem has been interpreted polemically, in opposition to Jacek Leociak, who reads śmierć both figuratively and as a text about a slaughterhouse. In this way, unexpected dimensions of Czechowicz’s sensitivity are shown, as the poet understands the cruelty of modern “animal killing industry” (used by the designers of the Holocaust machine), while at the same time he uses a dangerous array of antisemitic stereotypes, which were previously unknown to his critics.
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Tuwim’s approach to the “Jewish question” has already been analyzed by Polish and foreign scholars. The article is intended to consider some “survival strategies” of the Polish poet from a slightly different angle. In Poland, in the period between the wars Jewish writers were persuaded to accept total polonization and a rejection of their ethnic identity; yet, at the same time they often suffered a rejection from the circles of Polish artists. Any attempt of highlighting their Jewish identity or even a slight interest in Jewish culture incited brutal Jew-bashings. Tuwim considered his being a Polish Jew not only as a fact to be proud of, but also as an opportunity for engaging with self-criticism. He painfully felt the Jewish question as “a powerful wedge cleaving [his own] worldview”. However, like many other Polish-Jewish writers he masked its enduring presence in his own psyche, constructing his public persona through a process of self-fashioning. This paper tries to follow the traces of this “wedge” in Tuwim’s works: from poems supposedly having nothing to do with the “Jewish question”, to encrypted allusions to the great Yiddish writers, from his relentless questioning of all forms of intolerance and nationalist rhetoric, to his conviction that a new poetic language could “reform the world” and become a homeland for all readers regardless of their nationality.
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The article presents an analysis of Freud’s early biography written by Isidor Isaak Sadger, one of his earliest students. The author argues that Sigmund Freud. Persönliche Erinnerungen bonds together different literary genres such as biography, autobiography and pathography, thus allowing for studying the impact of life-writing literature on psychoanalysis. The first part of the article is devoted to the relation between introspection, auto-analysis and everyday writing practices of Freud and his students. In the second part, the author presents unknown facts from Sadger’s history in the psychoanalytic movement and reads his biography as an example of a heterogeneous literary genre where he becomes a writer-biographer and a doctor-autobiographer simultaneously.
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Defined as the transfer of meaning from one conceptual domain to another (Lakoff and Johnson 1980; Lakoff 1993), metaphors play a key role not only in the thought process, where they facilitate the understanding of complex concepts, as well as determine and shape people’s attitudes and perceptions of reality, but also in the way we speak, as they strongly influence the storage and organisation of information. The main aim of the paper is to identify and evaluate the people are parasites metaphor employed while referring to racial outgroups, and to review its different forms of usage on the white-supremacist Internet forum Stormfront.org according to the bio -parasite / socio-parasite categorisation framework proposed by Musolff (2016). The analysis of the metaphors unveils a slight target-dependant variation in the conceptual frame employed, which, in consequence, may influence the actions of forum users.
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Tuwim’s approach to the “Jewish question” has already been analyzed by Polish and foreign scholars. The article is intended to consider some “survival strategies” of the Polish poet from a slightly different angle. In Poland, in the period between the wars Jewish writers were persuaded to accept total polonization and a rejection of their ethnic identity; yet, at the same time they often suffered a rejection from the circles of Polish artists. Any attempt of highlighting their Jewish identity or even a slight interest in Jewish culture incited brutal Jew-bashings. Tuwim considered his being a Polish Jew not only as a fact to be proud of, but also as an opportunity for engaging with self-criticism. He painfully felt the Jewish question as “a powerful wedge cleaving [his own] worldview”. However, like many other Polish- Jewish writers he masked its enduring presence in his own psyche, constructing his public persona through a process of self-fashioning. This paper tries to follow the traces of this “wedge” in Tuwim’s works: from poems supposedly having nothing to do with the “Jewish question”, to encrypted allusions to the great Yiddish writers, from his relentless questioning of all forms of intolerance and nationalist rhetoric, to his conviction that a new poetic language could “reform the world” and become a homeland for all readers regardless of their nationality.
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The article contains an analysis of experiences and emotions from the 1967–1968 period described in the memoirs of two Jewish inhabitants of Wrocław. Their notes present the reaction to the Israeli victory in Six-Day War and subsequent experiences related to communist propaganda, reaction of the society, dislike they sensed, and finally the anti-Semitic campaign in March 1968.
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This study looks at antisemitism in the works of Roman Dmowski, a noted politician and ideologue of Polish nationalism. He wrote a number of books and articles at the end of his political career which influenced a section of Polish society, in particular the generation of young radical nationalists. During this period (the 1930s), these included in particular The World after War and Poland (1931), The Coup (1933) and the novel Heritage (1933). In these works, Dmowski fleshed out his antisemitic ideas and positions, which involved a global Zionist conspiracy and “demonisation” of the Jews. In this work, I have endeavoured to analyse and describe in detail Dmowski’s antisemitism in order to highlight the malign influence it may have had on Polish-Jewish relations during the period of the rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe.
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Die 30iger Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts zeichneten sich durch eine Zunahme radikaler Meinungen in ganz Europa aus, Polen nicht ausgenommen. Eine dieser Ideen war ein immer radikalerer Antisemitismus. Zur Hauptfigur der antijüdischen Anschauungen in Polen wurde der Politiker Roman Dmowski, in dessen Veröffentlichungen der Antisemitismus von Anfang an auftauchte. Im Unterschied zu früheren Zeiten radikalisierte sich in den dreißiger Jahren seine Haltung auf ein nie dagewesenes Niveau. In seinen Texten voller Hass auf die Juden dämonisierte er den jüdischen Einfluss auf die polnische und europäische Zivilisation und scheute sich sogar nicht, die rassistische Terminologie zu verwenden. Nur war Dmowski in den 30iger Jahren immer noch der wichtigste Politiker der polnischen Rechten und ein Vorbild der nationalistischen Jugend. Seine Artikel und Publikationen beeinflussten wahrscheinlich die radikale Jugend und trugen, wenn nicht zur Unmöglichkeit eines polnisch-jüdischen Zusammenlebens, so doch ganz sicherlich zu dessen Verschlechterung bei. Die jungen Radikalen liehen nämlich in diesem Fall Dmowski sehr bereitwillig ihr Ohr und mitunter übertrafen sie ihn sogar.
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For whom and about what? The Polin Museum, Jewish historiography and Jews as a “Polish cause”The article presents main threads of the ongoing debate around the permanent exhibition of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Analyzing differences between two fields of research, Jewish studies and studies on Polish-Jewish relations, the article makes the case that many of the critical voices in this debate stem from a lack of understanding of the differences between these two fields of research; these in their turn arise from the current state of affairs in Poland, and the pressure of nationalism and ethnocentrism, exerted also on Polish historical debates. If the telling of the 1,000 years of the history of Jewish life in Poland were to concentrate on the attitudes of the majority population towards Jews, as the critics seem to suggest, should be the case, the Museum’s narrative would run the risk of falling into a teleological fallacy, whereby all previous events and processes are interpreted as mechanically leading to the Holocaust, and of omitting all of these elements of Jewish history which are not relevant from the perspective of the Holocaust and of antisemitism studies. Making anti-Jewish hatred or the attitudes of the general majority towards Jews into the central axis of Jewish history could deprive Jews of their own historical subjectivity. At the same time, the article points out where and how the narrative of the Polin Museum indeed insufficiently includes the subject of antisemitism as an important factor of Jewish experience and of Jewish history in Poland. Renewing the dialogue between representatives of Jewish studies and Polish-Jewish relations studies is crucial from the standpoint of the current situation in Poland, in which the Polin Museum can be used by various actors in their attempts to build highly biased, politicized and uncritical versions of the history of Poland generally and of Polish attitudes towards the Jews specifically. This kind of understanding between the fields of Jewish studies and Polish-Jewish relations studies and their representatives’ common struggle against such attempts require an understanding of the autonomy of and differences between these two fields of research. Dla kogo i o czym? Muzeum Polin, historiografia Żydów a Żydzi jako „sprawa polska”Artykuł ten przedstawia najważniejsze wątki krytycznej debaty wokół treści wystawy stałej Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich Polin. Analizując różnice między dwoma polami badawczymi – studiami żydowskimi i studiami nad relacjami polsko-żydowskimi – autor broni tezy, że wiele krytycznych głosów w debacie wynika z niezrozumienia różnic między przedmiotem badań tych dwóch pól, po części wynikającego z obecnej sytuacji – panującego nacjonalizmu i etnocentryzmu, wywierających wpływ również na polskie debaty historyczne. Domaganie się od wystawy opowiadającej tysiącletnią historię Żydów na ziemiach polskich, aby koncentrowała się głównie na stosunku społeczeństwa większościowego do Żydów, grozi popełnieniem błędu teleologii, to jest interpretowaniem wcześniejszych wydarzeń i procesów jako nieuchronnie prowadzących do Zagłady, a także pomijaniem wszystkich tych elementów dziejów żydowskich, które z perspektywy Holokaustu i badań nad antysemityzmem nie mają znaczenia. Tego rodzaju postulaty i stojące za nimi metahistoryczne założenia grożą pozbawieniem Żydów roli podmiotów w ich własnej historii. Z drugiej strony autor tekstu wskazuje na elementy narracji wystawy stałej Muzeum Polin, w których rzeczywiście w niedostateczny sposób uwzględniona została problematyka antysemityzmu jako ważnego elementu żydowskiego doświadczenia i kluczowego czynnika dziejów Żydów w Polsce. Przywrócenie rzeczywistego dialogu i komunikacji pomiędzy przedstawicielami studiów żydowskich i badaczami relacji polsko-żydowskich, przy zachowaniu autonomii tych dwóch pól i zrozumieniu różnic pomiędzy nimi, jest też istotne z punktu widzenia niewątpliwych zagrożeń w postaci prób wykorzystania Muzeum Polin w budowie upolitycznionych, bezkrytycznych wizji historii Polski i stosunku Polaków do Żydów.
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Who, what, when, where, and why is Polish Jewry? Envisioning, constructing, and possessing Polish JewryThis article examines the different ways that various communities of scholars imagine, research and teach about “Polish Jewry.” Focusing on scholarship written in Israel, Poland and the United States over the past generation or two, the article argues that each particular community of scholars constructs a particular version of Polish Jewry and that each of these versions is deeply influenced by contemporary social, political and communal needs and demands. As a result, scholars very often end up constructing radically different versions of Polish Jewish history and society. These scholarly differences reflect many of the challenges and difficulties related to researching and writing about the history and culture of Polish Jews since 1989. Kim, czym, kiedy, gdzie i dlaczego są polscy Żydzi? Wyobrażanie, konstruowanie i zawłaszczanie Żydów polskichArtykuł stanowi omówienie odmiennych sposobów, jakimi różne społeczności badaczy wyobrażają grupę polskich Żydów, badają ją i nauczają o niej. Na podstawie analizy działalności naukowej badaczy z Izraela, Polski i Stanów Zjednoczonych ostatnich dwóch pokoleń autor pokazuje, że każda społeczność badaczy konstruuje własny, specyficzny obraz grupy zwanej „polskimi Żydami” i że obrazy te pozostają pod przemożnym wpływem współczesnych potrzeb i wymogów o naturze społecznej, politycznej i wspólnotowej. Na skutek tych różnic uczeni tworzą często radykalnie odmienne obrazy historii i społeczeństwa polskich Żydów. Różnice stanowią odzwierciedlenie przeszkód i utrudnień, jakie po 1989 roku wiążą się z badaniem i opisywaniem historii i kultury polskich Żydów.
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From a historical and sociological perspective, based on the social theory of recognition of Axel Honneth, this article analyzes the life course of the Italian Jewish Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre, born in 1930 in Milan, and her struggle for social recognition after her liberation from the concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrück, Jugendlager and Malchow. The article will underline on one side, the “spiral of misrecognition” that Liliana Segre, as all Italian Jews, has been victim of after the approval of the Fascist racial laws of 1938 and the negative consequences for her identity, such as social shame, loss of self-confidence, self-respect and self-esteem. On the other side, the article focus on the “upward spiral of recognition”, that Liliana Segre was able to realize after her return from the concentration camp. Through marriage, maternity, paid work in the labor market and civil engagement as Shoah witness, she was able to regain social self-esteem and dignity for herself and, for the Jewish people.
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The main objective of this article is drawing a general outline of Polish‑Jewish relations in years between 1918-2018 while analysing contemporary image of these relations that has been shaped through bipolar political narration in two ways: heroically nostalgic and critical. I will try to prove that story of common past, having great impact on the image of our nation, has now become yet another front line of ideological division of Polish society. As relentless dispute about antisemitism in times of independent Poland continues, it intensifies with current events that evoke it, such as amendment of act about Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) and commemorations of important events: liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, riots in ghetto in Warsaw, Polish March of 1968. I will also present points of disagreement in historiography of Polish and Jewish experiences as well as analysis of media reaction about infamous events of March ‘68 that arose during spring of 2018 by occasion of their 50th anniversary, using examples from weekly magazines of opinion “Polityka” and “Sieci”.
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Celem podjętym w artykule jest przedstawienie w bardzo ogólnym zarysie stosunków polsko‑żydowskich w latach 1918-2018 oraz ich współczesnego obrazu kształtowanego w ramach dwubiegunowo prowadzonej narracji politycznej, określanej jako heroiczno‑nostalgiczna oraz krytyczna. Postaram się wykazać, że opowieści o wspólnych losach, wywierające wpływ na kształtowanie wizerunku naszego narodu, stały się obecnie kolejną linią ideologicznego podziału społeczeństwa polskiego. Trwa nieustający spór o różnym natężeniu na temat występowania antysemityzmu w dziejach niepodległej Polski, a intensywności nabiera przy okazji przywołujących ten problem bieżących wydarzeń, takich jak np. nowelizacja ustawy o Instytucie Pamięci Narodowej, obchody rocznic wyzwolenia obozu koncentracyjnego w Oświęcimiu, powstania w getcie warszawskim, wydarzeń polskiego Marca 1968 roku. W artykule przedstawię punkty sporne w historiografii wspólnych, polsko‑żydowskich, doświadczeń oraz analizę rezonansu medialnego niechlubnych wypadków marcowych, jaki - na łamach tygodników opinii „Polityka” i „Sieci” - powstał wiosną 2018 roku przy okazji obchodów 50. rocznicy tych wydarzeń.
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