http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11914 2026-06-14T20:19:05Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11972 Tytuł: Marząc o Izraelu – analiza wątku syjonistycznego w Królu Szczepana Twardocha Autorzy: Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ewelina Abstrakt: The following article analyzes the narrative strands that pertain to Zionism in Szczepan Twardoch's novel Król (The King), published in 2016. Its aim is to demonstrate how the failure of the protagonist, a Jewish ex-boxer-turned-into-a-powerful-mob-leader, to leave his city of Warsaw for Israel constitutes the backbone of the novel. Though not expressed directly until the denouement, the missed opportunity to leave Poland before the outbreak of World War II becomes the turning point in the life of the main character. The survivor guilt that the protagonist experiences following the loss of his beloved ones in Holocaust makes him invent an alternative version of his own biography which he chooses to be set in Israel. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11971 Tytuł: „To syjonistyczne wychowanie dało mi siłę, by nie stać się owcą potulnie idącą na rzeź”. Opowieść o ocaleniu Awigdora Kochawa w My z Jedwabnego Anny Bikont Autorzy: Miklas-Frankowski, Jan Abstrakt: The structure of Anna Bikont’s We of Jedwabne (2004) is two fold. On the one hand, it is a diary that the author kept for four years, on the other, it is a collection of fifteen reportages of which the vast majority is devoted to individual characters. The protagonist of Chapter Eight is Awigdor Kochaw, one of the two living (at the moment of author’s research for the book) Jewish witnesses of the Jedwabne massacre. The article is an attempt at analysis of Awigdor Kochaw's testimony presented in Bikont’s book with special focus placed on the role of Zionism in his biography. It also elaborates on the notion of community memory. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11969 Tytuł: Diasporyzm jako przewrotne przeciwieństwo syjonizmu w powieści Philipa Rotha Operacja Shylock Autorzy: Kubiak, Stefan Abstrakt: The article discusses the purpose and the literary devices Philip Roth adopted to present the complicated problem of Jewish identity in the context of the raison d'être of the State of Israel as a homeland of Jews. Introducing himself as a fictitious character and the narrator, the author also gives voice to other figures who criticize not only the policies of Israel but also its existence, whereby the narration seems polyphonic. One of the characters is “false Philip Roth”, a man with mental problems, who preaches the idea of Diasporism, which advocates the return of the Ashkenazi Jews from Israel to the countries of their origins, including Poland. “Real Philip Roth”, however, talking to his old Palestinian acquaintance, George Ziad, who takes him for the champion of Diasporism, learns the Arab’s point of view. In the meantime the narrator becomes entangled in an operation of the Israeli secret service. Roth’s narrative leaves little illusion that the idea of Diasporism could be treated seriously, even though it appears logical: leaving Northern Europe the Jewish population actually fulfilled the plan of Hitler and European anti-Semites, simultaneously imposing their presence on the Arab population of Palestine. The literary perverse game of characters, as well as the role of a jester the author assumes, are literary tricks used in order to present the author’s own doubts and dilemmas, quite typical of Philip Roth, who throughout his literary career seems to have fought for the right to his own interpretation of his Jewish identity. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11967 Tytuł: Między komunizmem a syjonizmem. O wspomnieniach Juliana Stryjkowskiego Autorzy: Siedlecki, Michał Abstrakt: The article advocates a deep and impartial analysis of the biography of Julian Stryjkowski (born Pesach Stark, 1905–1996). It claims that his writing personality and ideological-philosophical choices should not be judged through the prism of current knowledge of communism or Zionism in order to avoid naive simplifications. Stryjkowski is above all a prose writer who during his long life was an eyewitness to the events of World War I and II, the Polish-Bolshevik armed conflict, or the Stalinist and Nazi repressive apparatuses. He was a fervent advocate of communist ideology, which, nevertheless, was preceded by a short, though significant, period of his fascination with Zionism. The article is an analysis of two autobiographical novels by Stryjkowski: Great Fear (1980) and The Same but Differently (1990) which aptly depict the formation of the writer’s worldview and the rationale for his life choices. The literary material is complemented by a book-long interview with the writer entitled Saved in the East (1991) and conducted by Piotr Szewec. The author of the article argues that the complicated course of Stryjkowski’s life, along with the controversial choices he made, leading him from Zionism, through communism, to the reconciliation with Jewish culture, is after all literary redeemed by the intricate novels and stories he created. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z