http://hdl.handle.net/11320/16843 2026-06-01T17:24:43Z 2026-06-01T17:24:43Z Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ewelina http://hdl.handle.net/11320/16891 2024-07-11T09:14:56Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Radzanów wyobrażony w powieści Normana Ravvina The Girl Who Stole Everything (2019) Autorzy: Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ewelina Abstrakt: The chapter discusses the latest novel by a Canadian Jewish writer of Polish extraction, Norman Ravvin, entitled The Girl Who Stole Everything, through the prism of Marianne Hirshʼs postmemory and Pierre Noraʼs lieu de mémoire. It provides an autobiographical context for the analyzed narrative and underlines the writerʼs opposition to the idea of tragic tourism, that is, organised trips for Jewish groups to the Nazi concentration camps and places of mass death of European Jews. Sending his imaginary character of a middle-aged Canadian to Radzanów, Ravvin pays a tribute to the birthplace of his maternal grandmother. Steeped in the Romantic tradition, the novel employs symbolic figures and rituals to evoke the atmosphere of loss and haunting. Nonetheless, The Girl Who Stole Everything also constitues a meditation over the power and value of personal memory and the traps of (re)constructed history.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Regiewicz, Adam http://hdl.handle.net/11320/16890 2024-07-11T09:14:43Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Figura Jabboku w Podróżnym Ulricha Boschwitza Autorzy: Regiewicz, Adam Abstrakt: The Jabbok figure is one of the Old Testament narrative figures. It refers to a situation of transition. The very moment of crossing is not so much a historical situation as a deeply existential one. It involves measuring oneself against the limitations set by the concrete facts one faces. The Jabbok figure predates the later experience of the Israelites’ communal crossing of the Red Sea. For this reason, the crossing of the Jabbok River seems fundamental to the understanding of Jewish identity. The aim of this article is to show the use of the Jabbok figure in Ulrich Boschwitz’s novel The Traveller. The thesis is that narratives dedicated to the experience of exile, escape, leaving the land or a particular country, make use of elements of a narrative pattern derived precisely from the Old Testament figure of the crossing of the Jabok.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Gardocki, Wiktor http://hdl.handle.net/11320/16889 2024-07-11T09:14:29Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Warszawa – Bergen-Belsen. Utwory prozatorskie Niny Gitler Autorzy: Gardocki, Wiktor Abstrakt: This article deals with the prose works of the former Bergen-Belsen prisoner Nina Gitler (1926–1945). The author was in the Warsaw Ghetto and then in the Bergen-Belsen camp during World War II. She died tragically at the age of 19, run over by a car. Among Gitler’s writings, which today are mostly available in archives, we find poems, as well as a few fairy tales. On the one hand, the author described the successive stages of her war wanderings; on the other hand, she often escaped into the world of the imagination, creating fictional stories to provide a break from the reality of the camp. The purpose of this article is to present and discuss Gitler’s prose works and to try to answer the question of how they relate to the theme of the Holocaust. The article is divided into three main sections. In the first, I discuss examples of fairy tales written in concentration camps; in the second, I examine the reality of Bergen-Belsen and Gitler’s camp situation; and in the third, I present the author’s prose texts.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Jeziorkowska-Polakowska, Anna http://hdl.handle.net/11320/16887 2024-07-11T07:59:02Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: „Tradycji musi się stać zadość…” – Siedem dalekich rejsów Leopolda Tyrmanda Autorzy: Jeziorkowska-Polakowska, Anna Abstrakt: The perspectives I have proposed for analyzing Leopold Tyrmand’s hybrid novel Seven Distant Voyages are another attempt to interpret it, but also to understand why the author decided to publish it nearly twenty years after it had been written. I relate my concept of reading Tyrmand’s work to geopoetics, understood as a literary practice that makes it possible to study not only travel writing, essay writing or reportage, but also literary works as a whole using transdisciplinary methods. The seven installments, in which the protagonists take „seven distant voyages” to various locations in the coastal city of Darłowo, are attempts to make the right decisions, make sense of life, and finally choose the best path for the future. Descriptions of geographically oriented objects with topography, geology, flora, and fauna are not just staffage or decoration, but the geopoetic and geopolitical topography of the place. On the other hand, the musical element makes its presence known on various levels and intertwines all the most important dimensions of Tyrmand’s work: constant traveling, his beloved jazz music, and, above all, the autobiographical nature of his work. Looking at the novel’s narrative and its numerical „organization,” one can risk the thesis that the characters of Seven Distant Voyages take seven distant voyages in three days to various locations in Darłowo, and although they do not take part in spectacularly far-flung expeditions, they mentally cover enormous distances.

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