Odmienność i tożsamość - rozważania o wybranych esejach Helli Kaufmann (1908-2001)
Otherness and Identity – Reflections ontThe Chosen Essays by Hella Kaufmann
Author(s): Elwira JeglińskaSubject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Jewish studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Polish-Jewish relations; Jewish literature in Poland; identity; Jews in Eastern Great Poland; Ślesin
Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to the chosen essays of Hella Kaufmann. H. Kaufmann was a Jew of Polish origin who tried to determine the boundaries of national and religious experience which shaped her early life in Poland and her identity as an adult living in Argentina and Israel. H. Kaufmann the importance of transgression as a tool for transcending one’s own limitations and understanding the external culture. She also pointed to the multi-threaded and complex nature of Polish-Jewish relations. She sought to understand the interpretation of homeland defined by her immediate environment and to define her attitude towards Poland as a country of idyllic childhood and a place lost.
Journal: Polonia Maior Orientalis
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: VIII
- Page Range: 355-383
- Page Count: 29
- Language: Polish