{"title":"Various Aspects of the Charitable Activity of Jews in Drohobych in the Early 20th Century","authors":"K. Thomas","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.20.002.13870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.20.002.13870","url":null,"abstract":"The article describes the charitable activities of Jews in Drohobych during the Habsburg monarchy and at the beginning of the Polish state. The associations described, run mainly by women, worked mainly for the benefit of Jewish orphans and children of impoverished families. The significant presence of Jews among the owners of oil companies largely contributed to the development of charity activities in the form of institutions meeting the needs of specific social groups.","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70989292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Immigrant Novel Revisited: Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation","authors":"B. Gasztold","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.21.006.16415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.21.006.16415","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the genre of immigrant narrative, comparing two early-twentieth century novels written by the Jewish-American writers Mary Antin and Anzia Yezierska with a contemporary novel penned by the Chinese-American author Jean Kwok. Taking adaptation theory (Sanders 2006 and Hutcheon 2006) as a starting point, I examine how Kwok’s novel adapts, revises, and reimagines a familiar pattern across time and cultures in order to make it representative of Chinese Americans. The analysis draws attention to experiences of Chinese immigrant women, their class membership and socio-economic status.","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70989680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facing Down the Watershed: The Drama Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) by I.L. Peretz as a Carnival Mystery Play","authors":"Karolina Koprowska","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.21.002.16411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.21.002.16411","url":null,"abstract":"The author analyses Isaac Leib Peretz’s play Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) through the lens of the ambivalences of the carnival, which give rise to various transgressions of socio-political and cultural, as well as metaphysical and existential, orders. The carnival category positions Peretz’s drama in the dialectic of beginning and end, and it suggests the violation of the existing normative order in order to expose the tension between the traditional world of the shtetl and the modernity that is impinging on it. Moreover, the carnival spectacle reveals metaphysical and historiosophic dimensions, since it tackles the question of the human condition, which is defined by the opposition of life and death and is entangled in the course of history.","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70989259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the USSR in the Documents of the British Foreign Office (1952–1958)","authors":"A. Patek","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.19.010.12233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.19.010.12233","url":null,"abstract":"The Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the USSR in the Documents of the British Foreign Office (1952–1958)","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47937126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hebrew Proficiency Certification According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages – An Educational Challenge","authors":"A. Adamczyk","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.19.005.12228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.19.005.12228","url":null,"abstract":"Hebrew Proficiency Certification According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages – An Educational Challenge","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43785904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights: Their Political, Geographic, and Security Value, and Cruciality to Israeli Security","authors":"A. Walter","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.19.003.12226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.19.003.12226","url":null,"abstract":"The Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights: Their Political, Geographic, and Security Value, and Cruciality to Israeli Security","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44105137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romantic Afterlives: Heinrich Heine’s “Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen” in Yiddish Translations","authors":"Magdalena Sitarz","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.19.007.12230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.19.007.12230","url":null,"abstract":"Romantic Afterlives: Heinrich Heine’s “Deutschland. Ein Wintermarchen” in Yiddish Translations","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45628350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Image of the Fragile Ashkenazi Jew","authors":"M. Freilich","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.19.001.12224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.19.001.12224","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the various presentations of Ashkenazi Jews in Israeli fiction. Ashkenazi identity in Israel is controversial both in everyday life and in fiction. However, the literary and artistic manifestations of Ashkenazi Jews are quite different from their political and social image. Ashkenazi Jews are usually portrayed as the intellectual, economic, and professional elite, and also as those who were responsible for the inequality between Jews who immigrated to Israel from Europe and Jews from Arabic countries. They are depicted by the Israeli media as those who forced the oriental Jews to settle in remote towns in Israel, thus denying them the ability to move up the social ladder. The arrogant, upper-middle-class Ashkenazi is often absent from Israeli literature. Israeli artists of Ashkenazi origin present themselves in autobiographical literature as “weak” or “problematic” and they add a “fragile” aspect to the Ashkenazi identity. The Ashkenazi Jew is depicted as an insecure figure who agonizes over fears and childhood traumas. The image of the “fragile Ashkenazi,” appears in some of the most prominent Israeli writing: Amos Oz’s A Tale of Love and Darkness, David Grossman’s A Horse Walks into a Bar, and Gila Almagor’s book and film Avia’s Summer. Ashkenazi Jews in Israel, immigrants and descendants of European Jews, are the largest ethnic group of Israel’s population.1 They are sometimes portrayed in the media as an elite group that dominates the judicial system, economics, universities, and the intellectual elite in Israel.2 Ashkenazi Jews are often described as an ethnic group that exploited immigrants of Mizrachi origin, Jews who immigrated from Arab and Muslim countries and their descendants in the early years of the State of Israel. A documentary3 based on detailed research recently screened on Israeli public broadcast TV reveals how the Ashkenazi leadership took advantage of these immigrants during the large waves of immigration between 1948 and 1963. The documentary, entitled The Ancestral Sin (Salach Po Ze Eretz Israel), shows the methods used to forcibly settle in Israel new immigrants from 1 Statistical Abstract of Israel, (2018). Table 2.24 – Jews, by country of origin and age, 2017. 2 Shabi 2008. 3 Deri 2017.","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45687715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Altneuland to Neuland. Re-Interpretation of Jewish/Israeli Identity in Modern Hebrew Literature","authors":"Daria Boniecka-Stępień","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.19.002.12225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.19.002.12225","url":null,"abstract":"From Altneuland to Neuland. Re-Interpretation of Jewish/Israeli Identity in Modern Hebrew Literature","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41726690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Structure and Key Partnerships of Vilnius Jews from the Second Half of the 17th Century to the End of the 18th","authors":"D. Sakalauskas","doi":"10.4467/20843925sj.19.006.12229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925sj.19.006.12229","url":null,"abstract":"Economic Structure and Key Partnerships of Vilnius Jews from the Second Half of the 17th Century to the End of the 18th","PeriodicalId":38048,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44858915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}