Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture

Lucyna Aleksandrowicz- Pędich is Associate Professor at SWPS – Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, teaching American literature and cross-cultural communication. Her main research interest is in Jewish-American writers.Małgorzata Pakier is Assistant Professor at SWPS – Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and is active in planning the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Her research interests include Holocaust memory, Polish and German cinema, cultural memory and mass media.

• Contents: Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich/ Małgorzata Pakier: Introduction – Małgorzata Grzegorzewska: Levinas Reads Shakespeare – Piotr Podemski: The Fascist Burden. The Italian Jews in the 20th Century: Identities, Debates, Interpretations – Na’ama Sheffi: Drama as a Political Code: Professor Mannheim at the Habima Theater, 1934 – Hanna Komorowska: 18th c. Hassidic Thought and Contemporary Approaches to Language and Education – Joanna Auron-Górska: Empty Spaces. Representations of Poland and the Poles in Professional Jewish Photography from Western Europe and the USA – Jody Myers: Purity, Charity, Community: The Power of Kashrut in an Orthodox Jewish Neighborhood – Justyna Sierakowska: Golem, Cyborg, Other: Jewish Feminism in Response to Ecological Degradation in a Cyberpunk Novel of Marge Piercy He, She and It – Zofia Janowska: Jewish Self-Hate: The Phenomenon of Lily Bloom in Will Self’s How the Dead Live – Małgorzata Czajka: The Topography of the Self in Muriel Spark’s The Mandelbaum Gate – Liat Steir-Livny: The Holocaust and the Israeli-Arab Conflict in Israeli Culture. 1950’s-1970’s – Nurith Gertz: Recent Israeli Films: A New Option for a Different Israeli History.