TY - JOUR
TI - Otherness and Identity – Reflections ontThe Chosen Essays by Hella Kaufmann
AU - Jeglińska, Elwira
TI - Otherness and Identity – Reflections ontThe Chosen Essays by Hella Kaufmann
AB - The paper is devoted to the chosen essays of Hella Kaufmann. H. Kaufmann was a Jew of Polish origin who tried to determine the boundaries of national and religious experience which shaped her early life in Poland and her identity as an adult living in Argentina and Israel. H. Kaufmann the importance of transgression as a tool for transcending one’s own limitations and understanding the external culture. She also pointed to the multi-threaded and complex nature of Polish-Jewish relations. She sought to understand the interpretation of homeland defined by her immediate environment and to define her attitude towards Poland as a country of idyllic childhood and a place lost.
VL - 2021
IS - VIII
PY - 2021
SN - 2392-0106
C1 - 2720-4006
SP - 355
EP - 383
DO - 10.4467/27204006PMO.21.020.15471
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/polonia-maior-orientalis/article/odmiennosc-i-tozsamosc-rozwazania-o-wybranych-esejach-helli-kaufmann-1908-2001
KW - Polish-Jewish relations
KW - Jewish literature in Poland
KW - identity
KW - Jews in Eastern Great Poland
KW - Ślesin