Published: 2019-12-21

Birthplace after the Shoah in Rajzel Żychlińsky’s Poetry – Towards a Different Project of Identity

Karolina Koprowska Logo ORCID
Section: Poetry and the Shoah
https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2019.05.04

Abstract

This article aims at exploring how the experience of the Shoah reorients a Jewish birthplace with regard to its symbolic and signifying potential, and, thereafter, conceptualises its impact on the identity. Precisely, this text attempts to describe and define the specificity of a birthplace after the Shoah, relying on Rajzel Żychlińsky’s poetry, still a marginal author writing in Yiddish. As it is shown, birthplaces depend on the duality which resurfaces at the precise moment of a homecoming: they are both spectral and real; this last fact is analysed in the text along with the project of dispersed identity, which the aforementioned binary inaugurates.

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Koprowska, K. (2019). Birthplace after the Shoah in Rajzel Żychlińsky’s Poetry – Towards a Different Project of Identity. Narracje O Zagładzie [Narrations of the Shoah], (5), 66–84. https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2019.05.04

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No. 5 (2019)
Published: 2019-12-22


ISSN: 2450-4424
eISSN: 2451-2133

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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