Ailleurs plutôt que nulle part. L’image de la pologne et des polonais goyim dans les textes d’immigrés juifs d’origine polonaise et de leurs descendants en belgique francophone
Elsewhere Rather Than Nowhere. The Image of Poland And Gentile Poles in the Texts of Jewish Immigrants of Polish Origin and their Descendants in French-Speaking Belgium

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the image of Poland and gentile Poles in the texts of Jewish immigrants and their descendants in French-speaking Belgium. The centre of interest are its literary forms, as well as its historical roots. If the geographical and cultural Polish space appears alternatively as locus amoenus and locus horribilis, the inhabitants of the country are quite clearly represented as populus horribilis. Their antisemitism appears as one of their main features, although sometimes it is problematized. Jewish immigrants and their descendants distance themselves from Poland and gentile Poles. They mainly create a negative image, very different from the traditional image of Poland and Poles in Belgian literature.

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