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Review: Literatura polska wobec Zagłady (1939-1968) [Polish Literature and the Holocaust (1939-1968)], ed. by S. Buryła, D. Krawczyńska and J. Leociak, Fundacja Akademia Humanistyczna, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2012.
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Review: Literatura polska wobec Zagłady (1939-1968) [Polish Literature and the Holocaust (1939-1968)], ed. by S. Buryła, D. Krawczyńska and J. Leociak, Fundacja Akademia Humanistyczna, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2012.
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This is a Polish translation of a chapter from Berel Lang’s latest book, Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, published by Yale University Press in 2013. Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jewish chemist and writer, is best known for his autobiographical accounts of his experiences at Auschwitz. His best known works, Se questo è un uomo [1947; If This Is a Man] and I sommersi e i salvati [1986; The Drowned and the Saved], present philosophical reflections on people’s behaviour and reactions in liminal situations. This chapter from Lang’s book deals with Levi’s sense of identity and the impact that his camp experience had on his understanding of Jewishness.
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« Nous ne voulons pas que notre histoire soit oubliée ! » » Ceci résume bien les motivations d’un bon nombre d’écrivains juifs francophones originaires des pays arabes. Or pendant longtemps, l’oubli menaçait d’une seconde disparition la civilisation séfarade. Aujourd’hui pourtant, cette mémoire resurgit comme jamais. “We don’t want our story to be forgotten !” This statement sums up the motivations of many French-speaking Jewish writers from Arab nations. For a long time, loss of memory threatened to make Sephardic civilisation disappear for a second time. Today,however, these memories are flourishing like never before. Keywords : Forgetting, silence, Sephardic memory, literature, Sephardic history Giovanni Rotiroti, « Perspectives psychanalytiques du regard : Gherasim
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This article discusses attempts by members of the Frankfurt School to establish collaborations with the American film industry. Kracauer’s screenplay for the film Jacques Offenbach as well as Horkheimer and Adorno’s screenplay for Below the Surface have both been preserved. They shed light on the processes of institutional negotiation, which lead to theory’s critical position with respect to the cultural industry. Horkheimer and Adorno’s idea for a film was rooted in their research on anti-Semitism. Their colleagues in Hollywood reworked this idea, and although their film was never produced, its premises inspired other productions about racial prejudice, such as Gentelmen’s Agreement (1947). This case study reveals that contingency is a crucial factor for theoretical production, which suggests the possibility of a symmetrical relationship between theory and its ‘passive’ subject.
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Kad su u ožujku 2014. objavljena Heideggerova »Promišljanja II-XV«, niz Crnih bilježnica, ko je je sam tako zvao, postalo je očito da se ti tekstovi razlikuju od svih dosad poznatih Heideggerovih spisa. Oni kao da jasnije i neposrednije govore o filozofskim motivacijama i intencijama, kao da jasnije pokazuju protiv čega se okreće Heideggerovo mišljenje tridesetih godina, i dokazuju da se Heideggerovo mišljenje krajem tridesetih godina, u okruženju Drugog svjetskoga rata, otvara prema antisemitskim idejama.
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During World War II the Polish legation in Bern provided considerable help to Polish Jews in Switzerland and occupied Poland, not only through inancial and material support, but also its engagement, for instance, in the campaign to aid Jews in Shanghai by offering its diplomatic channels to various organisations and mediation in obtainment of South American documents. Those activities would have been impossible without the support, engagement, and efforts of legate Aleksander Ładoś and his subordinates. The article discusses Ładoś and the role of the Polish legation in Bern in rescuing Jews.
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Do otprilike tridesetak godina prije kraja devetnaestog stoljeća, sve istočno od zamišljene linije povučene negdje između Grčke i Turske zvalo se Orijent. Kao etiketa stvorena u Europi, ≫Orijent≪ je stoljećima predstavljao poseban mentalitet, na primjer u frazi ≫orijentalno mišljenje ≪, a isto tako i skup posebnih kulturalnih, političkih pa čak i rasnih obilježja (u koncepcijama kao što su orijentalni despot, orijentalna putenost, raskoš, neshvatljivost).
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Osnivanje države Izrael nekad se percipiralo kao suprotnost holokaustu, njegova najsavršenija antiteza: Holokaust je bio destrukcija i pulzija smrti, Izrael je konstrukcija i pulzija života; u logorima smrti crkavalo se ≫poput ovaca za klanje≪, u Izraelu se također umire neprirodnom smrću i redom koji je suprotan slijedu generacija, ali barem su vojnici poginuli u ratu i civili pokošeni u atentatima – do danas njih oko 30.000 – pokopani na grobljima na kojima im se može odati tiha počast, dok je gotovo 6 milijuna njihovih predaka lišeno pokopa ili je imalo pravo tek na zajedničku raku.
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Suvremenim zapadnim društvima predstoji zadaća ponovnog raskrivanja vrijednosti susjedstva među različitim vjernicima i različitim religijama u doba koje nazivaju globalizacijom. Ljudi je na zemaljskoj kugli sve više, pa i susjedstva treba biti više. A što je, u najkraćem, susjedstvo?
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This article presents an attempt to analyse concepts from Jacques Derrida’s hauntology and to apply those concepts as interpretive tools. Ubertowska uses them in her readings of post-traumatic literature, in particular texts and images that concern the Holocaust. In the analytical part of the interpretation Ubertowska focuses on motifs of bones and fish-bones in Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s popular novel Grain of Truth, but also in Jonasz Stern’s paintings. The Cracow-based painter’s methods are described as a spectral ‘substitution above and beyond genre’.
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In her careful new reading of Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Pornografia Dauksza traces elements that indicate the essential role of passages concerning the war, its impact and consequences. Her affective analysis reveals Gombrowicz’s singular obsession with the war, with the lack of agency and with (anti)testimony. A particularly important problem is the presence/absence of Jews in the novel’s fictional reality. Dauksza explores Gombrowicz’s relationships to Jews and points out how important that relationship is within his work. She also engages with his diagnoses and comments on postwar Polish society and with his remedies for the spectral status of that formation.
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Langlot analyses Charlotte Delbo’s Spectres, mes compagnons [Ghosts, My Companions] to examine the role of the ghost or spectre that appears on many levels. This figure helps writers picture the workings of memory and the status of the witness, as well as the prisoners’ situation. It also helps us understand if literature (in, about and after) Auschwitz is impossible and void of meaning, or to what extent it turns out to be necessary to maintain our humanity and the links between witnesses, victims, and those who receive the testimony; to testify about the camp in the face of the difficulties with representation. Delbo’s text, the beliefs expressed in it and the many meanings of the figure of the ghost or spectre can become the key to interpreting other works by this author.
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Review of Benoît Peeters, Derrida, Grandes biograpies (Paris: Flammariom, 2010)
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The paper presents some results of the study of the image of the Jewish town (shtetl), as it appears in the oral tales of the non-Jewish locals. The presentation is based on the folklore and ethnographic data collected in 2012 during the field research in Western Belarus and in Bessarabia. The oral stories of local old residents from the settlement Zheludok (Grodno region, Belarus) and the village Vertiujeni (Floreshti district, Republic of Moldova) will be analyzed to show the mechanism of “Jewish history” reconstruction of former Jewish settlements where the Jewish population is now missing. The only evidence of Jewish heritage are the monuments of material culture (houses, synagogue, Jewish cemetery), and the only source of information – the memories of local residents about their neighbors – the Jews. As the collected material shows, the text about the “Jewish past” broadcasting by and among the non-Jews, combines ethnographic details and myth-making, and largely reflects the ethno-cultural stereotype of the Jew, characteristic to the folk tradition.
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The aim of the research is to find a link between Recherche of Marcel Proust and Giorgio Bassani’s Novel of Ferrara, analyzing the way both of them construct the figure of a Jew, in the light of Giacomo Debenedetti’s and Hannah Arendt’s position related to Jewish identity. Giorgio Bassani’s novel The Gold Rimmed Spectacles has been chosen because Athos Fadigati, a homosexual, and Charles Swann, a Juif mondain, demonstrate some similarities in terms of sensitivity and their social position. Here Proust witnesses a change, the beginning of a process leading to extermination camps: the reality Bassani must confront.
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The article is an attempt at interpreting selected poems by Ficowski (*** [nie zdołałem ocalić…], List do Marc Chagalla, Postscriptum listu do Marc Chagalla, Pożydowskie and Wniebowzięcie Miriam z ulicy zimą 1942, included in the volume Odczytanie popiołów). The author focuses on irony, which is particularly noticeable in texts referring to the Bible and religion.
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The paper represents a theoretical exploration of contemporary conflict assumptions that, indirectly or directly, emphasize the close connection between religion and conflict. The main goal of the paper is to answer the question of whether religion can be a cause of conflict in the modern world. However, the paper also provides answers to a series of secondary but equally important questions: Is monotheism an intolerant form of religion? Does the Bible represent a source of violence? Is religious division a basis for conflict causation? In addition, considering the frequent and easy use of the qualifier “religious,” the author explains the phenomenon of “violence in the name of faith,” which is often encountered in reports from war-affected areas. Since various sources and works from different scientific disciplines were used during the research, an appropriate categorical apparatus of each scientific discipline was applied to analyze each scientific field. Therefore, in addition to general logical methods (analysis, classification, induction, deduction, reasoning), the paper also uses several specific scientific methods such as the historical-critical method, comparative approach, context of use, etc. Based on the conducted research, the author concludes that contemporary “religious” conflicts are not inherent to society, but their causality is not in religion but in the abuse of religion.
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The article, investigating the relations between the development of the modern literature on the extermination of Jews and the so-called Holocaust culture, is divided into two parts. The first section refers to the history of formation and the present stage of the Holocaust culture, and critically exposes the influence on this culture, exerted by the postmodern philosophy and literary theory, which reinforce the long-existing tendency to sacralize the Holocaust, its testimonies and symbols. The second section of the article concentrates on the novel “Tworki”, by Marek Bieńczyk. The novel is read as an artistic correlate of these postmodern ideas, concepts and thinking styles, which dominate the modern reflection on the literature of the Extermination.
More...Jennifer, Caplan (2023) Funny, You don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humour from the Silent Generation to Millennials. Wayne State University Press.
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