Jerozolima z Zagładą i Polską w tle. Obraz miasta w poezji polsko-izraelskiej powstającej w latach 1948–2018

Abstract

The image of Jerusalem as the cultural axis mundi does not appear in the contemporary Polish poetry written in Israel as often as one might expect, and when it does, it is always connected with Poland and the Holocaust. The context of the Shoah can be seen both in the poetry of the generation of pre-war Jews (Łucja Pinczewska-Gliksman or Eleaser Feuerman) and the children of the Holocaust (Aviva Shavit or Irit Amiel). On the other hand, the grafting of images of Jerusalem onto the Polish context is present in the works of, among others, Marcel Goldman and Aleksander Rozenfeld. Fascinating examples of the autonomous functioning of the Jerusalem motif in the context of the geography, culture, and history of Israel are the poems of Jael Shalitt (Chleb świętojański [‘Locust Bread’], Pustynia Judejska I–III [‘Judean Desert I–III’], Wiatraki wiatraki [‘Windmills Windmills’]).