FAQ
Logo of Jagiellonian University

Longing for Home:  Nostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in Inter-war Polish-Jewish Literature

Studia Judaica, First View, Issue 2 (54),

Authors

Eugenia Prokop-Janiec
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
All publications →

Titles

Longing for Home:  Nostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in Inter-war Polish-Jewish Literature

Abstract

This article discusses the significance and enduring presence of nostalgic narrations in works by Polish-Jewish authors that are often accompanied by motifs of anti-nostalgia. They derive from complex relations with spaces categorized as familiar and alien, close and remote, as well as complex, ambivalent experiences of bonds, distance, and loss. The intersection of nostalgia and anti-nostalgia brings together and intertwines Polish and Jewish traditions and discourses of nostalgia. The sources of the article are writings by the outstanding inter-war Polish-Jewish writers Roman Brandstaetter, Anda Eker, Stefan Pomer, and Maurycy Szymel.

Information

Information: Studia Judaica, First View, Issue 2 (54),

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English: Longing for Home:  Nostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in Inter-war Polish-Jewish Literature

Authors

Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY  licence icon

Percentage share of authors:

Eugenia Prokop-Janiec (Author) - 100%

Article corrections:

-

Publication languages:

English

View count: 27

Number of downloads: 0