- Summary
- Literature in Yiddish has an almost millennium-long history. A major, if not the definitive caesura in its evolution was the outbreak of World War II, during which, of the approximately 11 million Jews who used Yiddish in their day-to-day affairs, over half perished. Yiddish literature emerged from the war severely crippled, weakened by the deaths of its writers and readers. But for many years after the war those who survived made immense efforts, in various places across the globe, to revive and foster culture in their mother tongue. In Poland there was a small though burgeoning and very dynamic center of Jewish life. The community that was building it consisted of the handful of people who had miraculously survived the Holocaust in Poland, and the far larger group of those who had seen the war out in the USSR. It is the literary output of this community of survivors, created and/or published in post-war Poland to 1968, that is the subject of analysis in this work.
- Other Title
- Bez Żydów? Literatura jidysz w PRL o Zagładzie, Polsce i komunizmie.
- Series
- Studies in Jewish civilization in Poland ; vol. 2
Studies in Jewish civilization in Poland ; v. 2.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Ruta, Magdalena, author.
- Published
- Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, [2017]
©2017
- Locale
- Poland
- Edition
- First English edition
- Contents
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Response to the Holocaust
The image of Poles and Polish-Jewish relations
Poland as a Jewish homeland
The identity of the Jewish communist
The social and cultural identity of the survivors
Conclusion.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Ruta, Magdalena.
Taylor-Kucia, Jessica, editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-440) and index.
Response to the Holocaust -- The image of Poles and Polish-Jewish relations -- Poland as a Jewish homeland -- The identity of the Jewish communist -- The social and cultural identity of the survivors -- Conclusion.
