Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Rassegna Mensile di Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
55,1 (1990) 9-25
Keywords:
Andrews, Maurice S.
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Jews History 1500-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Traces Jewish-Christian relations in Poland since the 10th century, stressing the climate of relative tolerance. Mentions persecutions and pogroms during the Polish Republic (1918-39), the sporadic killings of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, and the antisemitic campaign of 1968. States that, despite Poland's intellectual literary movement's tradition of philosemitism and recent Holocaust-related self-questioning, there is an incapacity to talk about things related to Judaism and a danger of prejudices and stereotypes, also evident in Andrzej Szczypiorski's novel "Początek", a fresco of Polish society since the war. Of the Jewish characters, the only positive ones are the two who perished in the Holocaust. The main protagonist echoes arguments about Jewish communists in the repressive Stalinist apparatus which served as justification for antisemitism and for the expulsion of the Jews in 1968.
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