Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
22 (2010) 414-426
Keywords:
Tuwim, Julian,
;
Słonimski, Antoni,
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Traces interwar and postwar biographies, ideological choices and literary creations of two Polish poets of Jewish background: Julian Tuwim and Antoni Słonimski, who together with other Polish poets founded in 1918 the poetical group "Skamander" and were gathering at the Warsaw café "Pod Pikadorem". Comments their strong ties with Polish culture, and, as an effect of the assimilation, their feelings of disgust towards the traditional, non-assimilated Jewish masses. Both of them became, every in his own way, the self-hating Jews. At the beginning of war all Skamander poets left Poland. Tuwim fled to Brasil, settling later in New York, Słonimski settled in London. Describes their lives in exil. Both after the war returned to Poland and supported the communist regime. Both of them felt guilty for their prewar feelings to the annihilated Jewish masses and mourned them in their poetry.
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