„Nad morzem miasto biało-błękitne”… Obraz Tel Awiwu w poezji polsko-żydowskiej lat międzywojennych
“The seaside city white and blue”… The Image of Tel Aviv in the Jewish-Polish Poetry of the Interwar Era

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is the image of Tel Aviv that emerges from the poetry of thepoets of the Jewish origin but writing in Polish, in the 20’s and the 30’s of the 20th century,especially from the poems of Anda Eker and Maurycy Szymel.In the Palestinian poems of the young poet Anda Eker who was traveling a few timesto Erec Israel, Tel Aviv, showing many Arcadian traits, seems to be the symbol of freedomand safety for the Jews from all over the world. Yet, the poem The Jewish state of MaurycySzymel, depicts that city – a symbol of the future Jewish state and simultaneously themodern Babylon – in the context of the Biblical extermination. The contestation of the urbanutopia that appears in this poems, reflects characteristic for the Jewish Diaspora diversity ofattitudes towards the Zionist idea.

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