Z ziemi polskiej w świat. Z romantyzmem w tle
From Polish Land to the World. With Romanticism in the Background

Author(s): Daniel Kalinowski
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Shalom Asz; Judaism; Christianity; tradition; romanticism
Summary/Abstract: The article shows Sholem Asch’s biographical and mental connections with Poland and Polish culture. In addition, the worldview factors, derived from the tradition of romanticism, and especially from the space of Polish romanticism, are presented in the Asch system of values. "As a result,, the Yiddish writer derived his thinking about literature as much from the Jewish tradition as from reading works by Adam Mickiewicz or Juliusz Słowacki. Moreover, in his project of public life and Polish-Jewish relations, Asch was of the opinion that, thanks to civic models represented by Berek Joselewicz, Tadeusz Kościuszko and Józef Piłsudski, peaceful and beneficial coexistence of Jews and Poles in one country – Poland – was possible.

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