Two Homes: From the Carpathians to the World

Dorota  Burda-Fischer

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Abstract

The article delves into the profound meaning of home for refugees, a concept that takes on a new depth when one's homeland is ravaged by war. It examines the contrasting experiences of the Polish writer Stanisław Vincenz and his Jewish friend Benedykt Liebermann, both rom the Eastern Carpathian region. Despite their different paths, both individuals demonstrated remarkable resilience. Vincenz, while in exile, poetically recreated in memory his childhood Carpathian home, which allowed him to continue his writing. For Liebermann attempted to build a new home in pre-state Israel after being uprooted, the destruction of Jewish life in his former hometown made recovering a sense of home immensely difficult. The author of the article suggests that philosophies about memory’s role in preserving a home have limits, as the trauma of losing one’s home is a highly personal experience. For Jewish refugees, that rupture severed entire cultural worlds in a way that defied simple remedies.

Keywords

lost home, roots, rootedness, belonging, oikology, reconstruction of the lost home, memory as the foundation of a new home, contrasting Jewish and Polish refugee experiences of home loss, Stanisław Vincenz, Benedykt Liebermann

utracony dom, korzenie, zakorzenienie, przynależność, ojkologia, odbudowa utraconego domu, pamięć jako fundament nowego domu, kontrastujące doświadczenia żydowskich i polskich uchodźców związane z utratą domu, Stanisław Vincenz, Benedykt Liebermann

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

Article type: Original article

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English: Two Homes: From the Carpathians to the World

Authors

Dorota Burda-Fischer

University of Haifa, Israel

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY

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Dorota Burda-Fischer (Author) - 100%

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English

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