Z dziejów żydowskiej awangardy w Łodzi
From the history of the Jewish avant-garde in Łódź

Author(s): Krystyna Radziszewska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Jewish studies, Modern Age
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Jewish avant-garde; Łódź; 20th century; "Jung Idysz"; Mojsze Broderson
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present "Yung Yiddish", the first avant-garde Yiddish group in Poland, operating in Łódź in 1919-1921. The group was founded in a multinational city with various traditions and spiritual sources. Moyshe Broderzon, with his experience of avant-garde movements in Russia, played a leading role in creating the group and its program. The group included outstanding painters, writers and theater creators of international rank co-created the community as Yitsḥak Katzenelson, Yekhezkl-Moyshe Nayman (Neuman), Chaim Leyb Fuks, Chaim Krul and artists: Yankl Adler, Marek Szwarc, Yitskhok Broyner (Brauner), Henekh Bartshinski. They created mainly in the circle of the Yiddish language, which became their programmatic distinguishing feature. They were also open to inspiration from outside, to the influence of other avant-garde groups from Warsaw, Poznań, Berlin, Dresden, the cities of the Rhineland, as well as Moscow and Kiev. It also drew from other cultures among which Jews lived and worked. The artists published a magazine with the same title that combined visual and literary experiment. Six issues of the Yung-Yiddish magazine have been published.

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