Andrzej Marek (Marek Arnsztejn). Polsko-żydowska fraza artysty

Abstract

The article concerns the analysis of three plays by Marek Arnshteyn (nickname: Andrzej Marek) on Jewish subjects. Andrzej Marek was an artist who could write in Yiddish as a Jewish author and write in Polish as a Polish author. In his work he combined aesthetics, style and subjects. As a result, Jewish motifs appeared in Polish-language plays, while the Polish context was visible in plays written in Yiddish. In Andrzej Marek's stage works on Jewish subjects, on the one hand, there is an element of humor and joke, and on the other, poetic and sublime images of Yiddish culture. Arnshteyn's dramaturgy is not distinguished by thematic inventiveness, however, it impresses with the visibility of the stage narrative, the ability to use the tradition of Jewish theater and the use of conventions of naturalistic and symbolic theater. In the overall assessment of the importance of Arnshteyn's activity, one should constantly realize that in one person he combined the playwright, director, animator of theater life, prose writer, critic and theoretician, who consistently and for the rest of his life created the idea of Polish-Jewish theater.