%0 Journal Article
%T Przyczynek do pozagładowego lurianizmu. Droga żelazna Aharona Appelfelda
%A Tacik, Przemysław
%J Studia Judaica
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/24500100STJ.19.013.12396
%N Nr 2 (44)
%P 285-304
%K Aharon Appelfeld, Droga żelazna, Zagłada, kabała, lurianizm / Aharon Appelfeld, The Iron Tracks, Shoah, Kabbalah, Lurianism
%@ 1506-9729
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-judaica/artykul/przyczynek-do-pozagladowego-lurianizmu-droga-zelazna-aharona-appelfelda
%X 
	A CONTRIBUTION TO THE POST-SHOAH LURIANISM: THE IRON TRACKS BY AHARON APPELFELD

	The article reinterprets The Iron Tracks by Aharon Appelfeld as a work of Lurianic Kabbalah adapted to the world after the Shoah. It is a reality of collapsed transcendence in which no divinity or ethics hold universal validity. As in Lurianism, this world contains entrapped sparks of former transcendence: dispersed Jewish survivors, artefacts of Jewish life and a Jewish Communist organization. Appelfeld portrays a post-survival world based on permanent repetition and unrepented guilt. The gist of his novel, however, lies in the slim possibility of redemption which the main protagonist, Erwin Siegelbaum, opens up with an act of vengeance on a war criminal.