http://hdl.handle.net/11320/15419 2026-06-01T16:15:58Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/15439 Tytuł: Żydzi wschodniej Polski. Seria XI: Wobec polityki Redaktor(rzy): Ławski, Jarosław; Siedlecki, Michał Abstrakt: The volume brings the materials of the conference series „Jews of Eastern Poland” held in Bialystok. Thus began the third five-year anniversary of this project. The 11th International Conference „Jews of Eastern Europe and Politics. Biographies–Ideas–Cultural Texts” was organized by the Chair of Philological Research „East-West” of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Bialystok and the Department of Philological and Bibliographical Research of the Łukasz Górnicki Library, co-organizing this event from the beginning. The third series of sessions run under the motto: „Jews of Eastern Europe: Reinterpretations of Heritage.” The session was sponsored by the Scientific Committee composed of researchers from Poland, the United States, Israel, Turkey, and Ukraine. Organizational matters were coordinated by the Organizing Committee, chaired by Prof. Jarosław Ławski (Unit of Philological Research „East-West”, Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok) and Director Beata Zadykowicz (the Łukasz Górnicki Library). The following research issues were addressed in 2022: The political life of Jews in Poland and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries; the image of the Jewish politician in literature and art; ideas and political discourses of Eastern European Jews; Jewish political life in Central and Eastern Europe and the ideas of Zionism; „great” and „small” Jewish politics: center and province; press, radio, film and the political life of the Jewish community; Jewish politicians in the face of totalitarianism of the 20th century; political life of Jews in Podlasie and Białystok; great figures of the Jewish political world; Jewish political life through the eyes of anti-Semites; Jewish writers and artists as politicians; the image of Jewish political life in historical, historical-literary, political science and cultural studies. The conference was held under dramatic historical conditions. In 2020, due to the pandemic, the proceedings were held in absentia, while in 2021 they were held in hybrid mode, with most of the speakers appearing online. On May 16, 2022, a dozen people gathered at the Podlaska Bookstore to connect online with other participants in the Conference. The pandemic and the war in Ukraine limited the mobility of Western and Eastern European researchers. Twenty researchers from universities in Poland, Germany (Berlin), and Ukraine (Odessa Literature Museum) participated in the discussions, which were held in four 5-person panels. The wide thematic range of papers, which this year included issues of politics, culture, literature, press, and photography. It is worth noting that, on the one hand, a promising element of the 11th Conference was the presence of representatives of new research environments (Institute of Judaic Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Berlin), with the participation of Polish Studies students from Gdansk and Białystok. As Professor Anna Janicka emphasized in the future more attention should be devoted to the social-scientific dimension of the Conference, the opportunity provided by direct meetings of researchers, and their trips to places of Jewish-Polish memory in Podlasie. The three-chapter volume presents most of the papers delivered (see English table of contents), and brings rich photographic material, related to a multimedia presentation by Dr. Tomasz Butkiewicz (Berlin), entitled “The End of the Jewish Enclave of Bialystok and the Region in German Photographs from 1939–1943.” The volume was edited by Professor Jarosław Ławski, the conference organizer on behalf of the University of Bialystok, and Dr. MichaŁ Siedlecki on behalf of the Łukasz Górnicki Library. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/15438 Tytuł: Losy Żydów w Gdańsku i Sopocie w pierwsze połowie XX wieku w twórczości Mieczysława Abramowicza Autorzy: Ciach, Dominika Abstrakt: In the article titled ‘The fate of Jews in Gdańsk and Sopot in the first half of the XX century and it’s reflection in the works of Mieczysław Abramowicz’ the author deals with the issue of the place of a human being in historical processes. She shows an example of the Free City of Gdańsk (specifically in Gdańsk and Sopot) during the inter war period and II World War. The author analyses the political situation in both of the city and how the situation influenced the fate of Jews characters living on this territory. Then in the article the some quotes of Abramowicz’s books in which he creates fictional literary heroes who could live in Free City of Gdańsk. The goal of the article is to show how important is to remember about representatives of minorities which have created the character of some well-known area. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/15437 Tytuł: „Szerzą wrogą, antypolską propagandę”. Polityczne i pamięciologiczne wymiary reportaży Mordechaja Canina Autorzy: Miklas-Frankowski, Jan Abstrakt: The author discusses the Jewish fate in post-war Poland. The writer and journalist Mordechai Canin (1906–2009) visited Poland several times in 1946 and 1947, as a reporter for the Yiddish American left-wing daily “Forwerts”. A collection of his reports was published in Israel in 1952 under the title Iber shteyn un shtok: a rayze iber hundert khorev gevorene kehiles in Poyln, translated into Polish by Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska and published in 2018 (Przez ruiny i zgliszcza. Podróż po stu zgładzonych gminach żydowskich w Polsce (Through ruins and rubble. A journey through one hundred exter-minated Jewish communities in Poland)). According to the author of the sketch: “Canin’s book is a unique record of the experience of emptiness following the Holocaust. It is a unique testimony to the post-Holocaust atmosphere and social landscape of Polish cities and towns: with its few survivors, with its beneficiaries and accomplices, and above all with its witnesses erasing and suppressing the memory of their murdered Jewish neighbours from Polish consciousness”. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/15436 Tytuł: Jerozolima. Fragment większej całości: poezja Doroty Szatters wobec totalitaryzmów XX wieku Autorzy: Siedlecki, Michał Abstrakt: In the article, the author interprets Dorota Szatters’ poems from her volume entitled Jerozolima. Fragment większej całości (Jerusalem. A Piece of a Larger Whole) (Katowice 2021). He focuses on the aspect of the artist’s attitude to the totalitarianisms of the 20th century. The researcher assumes that, despite the poignant and gloomy mood of Szatters’ poems, paradoxically, one can also find in them elements of the metaphysics of hope. The artist sees great socio-cultural opportunities in literature. Art has the power to liberate us from the pain of everyday life, even if it involves a constant struggle with the substance of words. In addition, the poet does not lose faith in people. Her texts are reassuring in the difficult times we are currently living in. One may venture saying that without Szatters’ lyrical voice it would be much more difficult for us to understand the paradoxes of the modern world. Her texts are beacons in the oceans of life 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z