Published: 2024-12-30

Isaac Babel's Conarmy: Jewish Contexts

Piotr Czerwiński Logo ORCID

Abstract

The references to the Jewish theme selected from Babel's text, occurring in the form of sentences and phrases, formed the subject of analysis, the meaning of which was determined by the representation of the image of Jewish existence against the background of looting, military operations during the civil war of the early 20s of the twentieth century. The events are taking place on the territory of eastern Poland and western Ukraine. The appearance of representatives of the local Jewish environment, their appearance, occupations, clothes, actions, behavior, as well as attitudes towards them from others, their relationships with these others, their internal relationships – in the family, in the community, between communities, among themselves – all this becomes the object of a consistent semantic distribution. There are distinguished groups and subgroups, the visual, viewable description and characteristics of which make it possible to see and understand not only what is happening, but also what the world of Jewish existence depicted by Babel in his work represented. The consequence of the proposed consideration could be a semantic, according to the highlighted features, characterizing the description of what constitutes Jewish features and Jewish specifics, both in relation to the time and space shown in Babel, and in a broader perspective.

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Czerwiński, Piotr. 2024. “Isaac Babel’s Conarmy: Jewish Contexts”. Iudaica Russica, December, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.31261/IR.2024.13.05.

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2024
Published: 2024-12-31


ISSN: 2657-4861
eISSN: 2657-8352
Ikona DOI 10.31261/IR

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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