Zaklęte źródło wspomnień – sztetl jako uniwersalna przestrzeń żydowskiej biografii w poezji Stefana Pomera i malarstwie Adama Muszki
Enchanted source of memories – representation of shtetl as a place of shared Jewish biography in Stefan Pomer’s poetry and Adam Muszka’s painting

Author(s): Aleksandra Bednarowska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: shtetl; Muszka; Pomer; Jewish identity; memory
Summary/Abstract: Shtetl, a mosaic of cultures, languages and religions, was presented by Polish-Jewish artists of the interwar period as a juxtaposition of two worlds: the idyllic world of childhood and the ugly, miserable place of Jewish existence in Eastern Europe. After the Holocaust the portrayal of shtetl became the symbol of the lost world of European Jewry. This essay focusses on two Polish-Jewish artists: a poet Stefan Pomer, who came from a Podolian shtetl and became victim of the Holocaust and an artist Adam Muszka, a Holocaust survivor, who devoted his life to painting a shtetl of his childhood Piotrków Trybunalski, and examines how the memory of shtetl is represented in their works.

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