WYSŁUCHAĆ, WYSZUKAĆ, WY/DOPOWIEDZIEĆ: O MEMORIALNEJ AKTYWNOŚCI ELENY MAKAROVEJ
LISTEN, SEARCH, ADD: ELENA MAKOROVA’S MEMORIAL ACTIVITY

Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to look at the Holocaust memorial activity of writer, art therapist, and exhibition curator Elena Ma-karova in the first years after her repatriation from the USSR to Israel. The correspondence with Makarova’s mother, thepoet Inna Lisnianska, collected in the volume Имя разлуки, will help introduce the main fields of Makarova’s memorialactivity. Makarova’s work exemplifies an intuitive insertion into an era of turns — memorial, visual and affective. Pre-cursory in this respect are the studies devoted to the Austrian artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the cultural and scientificlife in Theresienstadt. The faction’s literary strategy is also analyzed, which, according to the author of the article, will bereflected in Makarova’s works such as Фридл or Кописты. О забытых художниках Белостокского гетто.

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