Wybór i stłumienie. Wątki żydowskie w twórczości Marii Zabojeckiej

Abstract

The author of this article analyses the forgotten works of Maria Zabojecka, a writer of the Young Poland and the interwar period. Zabojecka was born on 15 October 1870 in Warsaw as Malwina Posner, to an assimilated Jewish family. She later changed her surname, first name and pseudonyms repeatedly, eventually changing her surname officially to the pseudonym she used as a writer. Before her death in 1927, she was known under the pseudonym Maria Zabojecka, while her official name was Malwina Zabojecka. She had also used such pseudonyms as: Malwina Garfeinowa-Garska, Malwina Maria Garfeinowa-Garska née Posner. Jewish motifs were relegated to the margins of her work by her ideological commitment [socialism], Polish patriotism and author’s ethos. She, however, didi include them in two of her works: her writing debut article signed Malwina Posner Haine o Żydach (Haine on the Jews), “Izraelita” 1889, no. 44 and in an episode of her most important novel Gromnice (Blessed candles) (Warsaw 1907).