Passing and the return to the roots. The 50th anniversary of Hertz’s Jews in Polish Culture. Cover Image

Passing a powrót do korzeni. Na pięćdziesięciolecie książki Hertza Żydzi w kulturze polskiej
Passing and the return to the roots. The 50th anniversary of Hertz’s Jews in Polish Culture.

Author(s): Hanna Buczyńska-Garewicz
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Aleksander Hertz; Jews in Polish culture

Summary/Abstract: Fifty years after the publication of Aleksander Hertz’s Jews in Polish Culture the author poses a question whether a contemporary reader can find anything new in this book: i.e., whether its value is purely historical or is it a vital element of today’s thinking and its creative factor, which opens new horizons for the understanding of the status quo. These two characteristics – antiquarian and actual – even though seemingly different do not have to be mutually excluding. Quite contrarily, they seem to supplement one another.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 382-392
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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