Obraz diaspory żydowskiej w Widnokręgu Wiesława Myśliwskiego

Abstract

Michał Siedlecki's article deals with the image of the Jewish diaspora in Wiesław Myśliwski's Widnokrąg (Horizon). The researcher follows the fate of this community in the writer's novel mainly on the example of the functioning of two interwar Polish settlements: Sandomierz (with its Jewish district and shoe and haberdashery shops managed by Judaists) and Dwikozy, which is present in Myśliwski's text only implicitly, as his family village. Siedlecki comes here from an assumption that the portrait of Świętokrzyskie Jews in Widnokrąg is a personal, autobiographical work of the artist, a kind of his diary, in which the tragic fate of local Jews was interwoven into the history of their Eastern and Central European compatriots. Siedlecki also argues that Myśliwski has made an incredible thing in Widnokrąg: the memory of the Jews from Sandomierz has been transferred to the Eden of literature.