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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

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Hebrew Literary Centers in Interwar Poland

Magda Sara Szwabowicz

Studia Judaica, Nr 1 (35), 2015, pp. 139 - 170

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.15.007.3890

HEBREW LITERARY CENTERS IN INTERWAR POLAND

The article scrutinises various aspects of cultural activities in Hebrew literary centers in interwar Poland (1919–1939). The research is based on Hebrew literary periodicals published in the cities of Warsaw, Krakow, Vilnius and Lviv.
Taking into consideration the common practice of scholars to neglect or ignore both the historical importance and the literary value of the output of diasporic centers, the main goal of the study was to show the internal dynamic of the Polish center. By describing literary initiatives undertaken in various cities, the author demonstrated the spectrum of cultural and literary activities, along with differences between the centers and mutual relations of their representatives.

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Wydawcy w służbie idei. O pionierach hebrajskiego świeckiego ruchu wydawniczego

Magda Sara Szwabowicz

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 237 - 263

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.011.8246

The article focuses on the main secular Hebrew publishers and their role in the development of modern Hebrew literature. On the presumption that a publishing house is an institution which forms readership and drives literary production, the author shows that Hebrew publishers were not only modelling the book market but also served as essential promoters of Hebrew writings and as both financial and spiritual supporters of writers. The aim of the paper is to present the most distinguished Hebrew publishers (e.g. Ben-Avigdor or Avraham Stybel) along with their publishing initiatives which were carried out on the Polish lands from the last decade of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of the Second World War. The key issues discussed in the article are the goals publishers set for themselves, their publishing policy and, above all, their contribution to the development of different genres of Hebrew literature.

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