The latest Russian-Israeli literature shows a shift towards post-information era realism — “realism 4.0” — associated with socio-cultural and economic processes referred to as “Industrie 4.0” (the so-called fourth industrial revolution). It assumes the existence of a common network of people, machines, objects, and signs that create a new culture. The article is devoted to writers — emigrants from the 1990s, for whom this culture allows, among other things, a departure from the stereotype of the emigrant and representative of minor literature. The works of the writers mentioned in the article reflect at least three characteristics of realism 4.0: demarginalization, the magic of the network, and augmented reality. These features are described in the works of Alexander Goldstein, Dina Rubina, Denis Sobolev, Mikhail Yudson, Elizabeth Mikhailichenko, Yuri Nesisa, and Nekod Singer.

The figure of a Jew is one of the most common literary concepts in the works of Russian postmodernism. It arouses particular interest among artists from conceptual circles. A characteristic feature of Jewish characters of this type is bias, expressed primarily in the selection of strictly defined features, traditionally attributed to Semitic people. The abandonment of in-depth psychologization and the creation of a universal model of the Jew makes it possible to use this concept in a literary game, the main aim of which is to deconstruct certain phenomena of political and social life. The analysis carried out by the author of the article allows to observe the artistic and philosophical concepts used for this purpose, as well as the broader plan of the current social view of Jews and the Jewish cultural context.

The Torah texts (the book of Genesis) are the base for the appointing and describing of the thirteen degrees-stages of Joseph’s raising as the characteristic and full from that is typical for the Judaic mental
tradition. Then this tradition is described as a model to be compared with the examples from the Prophets (Mordecai, Daniel) as well as with other texts including the literary ones and the well-known historical facts.

The aim of the article is to draw attention to the existence of Jewish religious literature in the 19th century. The prayer books selected from the resources of the National Library in Warsaw are a testimony to the old multilingualism of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe. However, queries (eg. in libraries) and studies on Jewish religiosity based on preserved prayer books or booklets are still necessary. Texts from the bilingual machzor to the New Year (Warsaw–Vilnius, 1893) are the starting point for cultural analysis, not only of prayers but also of rituals related to this and other Jewish holidays.

For the Klepfisz family and thousands of other Jews, their homeland was the irretrievably lost, flourishing Jewish culture of pre-war Poland. This article analyzes Irena Klepfisz's vision, in which the poet seeks a safe (metaphorical) space at the intersection of Europe's past and America's present.

Jakub’s Books by Olga Tokarczuk talk about Józef Frank (1726–1791), the creator of “probably the most significant phenomenon of public life in which the Jewish communities participated in the beginnings of the modern era”. The writer, thanks to his hero, considered the successor of the leaders of the largest messianic movement, Sabbatai Zvi and Baruchja Ruso, guides the reader through the multicultural and multiethnic Polish Republic in the turbulent 18th century.

This article is devoted to Menachem Kipnis: a Polish cantor, journalist, satirist, columnist, songwriter, photographer, and person fascinated by folk tales and Jewish folk tradition. Depicted in Kipnis’ stories, eponymous Chełm happens to be a place existing first and foremost in imagination, which is abundant in grotesque and absurd representations of everyday life of its citizens. As it is argued in the article, this is the realm founded on folk superstitions, whose inhabitants seek wisdom: the value they deem to be of greatest importance.