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Data publikacji: 2016

Opis

Redakcja tomu: Elżbieta Bilska-Wodecka

Licencja: Żadna

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Jan Górecki

Peregrinus Cracoviensis, Numer 27 (3), 2016, s. 107-119

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833105PC.16.005.8906

The Cult of Saint Florian in Silesia

The article is devoted to the cult of Saint Florian in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia. Attention was paid to the most important forms of the cult and the religious and cultural heritage related to it, preserved to this day. The cult of Saint Florian, initiated in Poland in 1184 by bringing the martyr’s relic to Krakow, became very popular in Silesia, among others thanks to the industrial traditions of this region. Saint Florian is worshiped as a patron saint of steelworkers, firemen and other difficult professions. The paintings, figures, altars and chapels dedicated to Saint Florian, as well as prayers, songs and pilgrimages dedicated to him, are the evidence of centuries of veneration. Currently, in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia, there are 12 parishes dedicated to his name, including the only in Poland Saint Florian’s sanctuary in Chorzów.

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Julia Sołjan

Peregrinus Cracoviensis, Numer 27 (3), 2016, s. 121-140

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833105PC.16.006.8907

The Jewish question in the writings of Maksymilian Horwitz

At the beginning of the 20th century, a few million Jewish community lived in the territory of pre-partition Poland, strongly internally diversified both in terms of their views and the degree of assimilation with Polish society. Therefore, the programs of political activists and political parties often addressed the issue of the so-called Jewish question. The article presents the position of Maksymilian Horwitz on this matter, who was a political activist of Jewish origin and a leading representative of the Polish and European left wing from the late 19th century to the mid-1930s. The basis of the analysis was his writings from the years 1905–1914, especially the booklet On the Jewish Question. In them, he presented the three most important political camps in Poland at that time (liberal-assimilation, national-Zionist, and socio-democratic) and their ways of solving the situation of Jews, however, in his opinion the Jewish issue could only be solved by means of a class struggle undertaken by Jewish workers in cooperation with the Polish and, in a wider perspective, international proletariat. Only a revolution could provide this social stratum with liberation and its due civil rights.

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