TY - JOUR
TI - Facing Down the Watershed: The Drama Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) by I.L. Peretz as a Carnival Mystery Play
AU - Koprowska, Karolina
TI - Facing Down the Watershed: The Drama Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) by I.L. Peretz as a Carnival Mystery Play
AB - 
	The author analyses Isaac Leib Peretz’s play Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) through the lens of the ambivalences of the carnival, which give rise to various transgressions of socio-political and cultural, as well as metaphysical and existential, orders. The carnival category positions Peretz’s drama in the dialectic of beginning and end, and it suggests the violation of the existing normative order in order to expose the tension between the traditional world of the shtetl and the modernity that is impinging on it. Moreover, the carnival spectacle reveals metaphysical and historiosophic dimensions, since it tackles the question of the human condition, which is defined by the opposition of life and death and is entangled in the course of history.

	* Artykuł powstał przy wsparciu finansowym POB Heritage w ramach Programu ID.UJ (edycja specjalna I).

	Translated by Jessica Taylor-Kucia
VL - 2021
IS - Volume 19
PY - 2023
SN - 1733-5760
C1 - 2084-3925
SP - 15
EP - 28
DO - 10.4467/20843925SJ.21.002.16411
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/scripta-judaica-cracoviensia/artykul/facing-down-the-watershed-the-drama-bay-nakht-afn-altn-mark-a-night-in-the-old-marketplace-by-i-l-peretz-as-a-carnival-mystery-play
KW - Yitskhok Leybush Peretz
KW - Isaac Leib Peretz
KW - Mikhail Bakhtin
KW - carnival
KW - Jewish modernism