Published : 2015-12-31

Farewell to the strangeness. Signs of Jewish memory in the new Polish drama

Olga Maciupa



Abstract

One of the traditional connotations of the Jew is his foreignness. The image of the Jew as an alien effects on the historical collective memory in Poland. For the long time Jews had remained out of public discourse and historical narratives. The article attempts the reconstruction of negative stereotypes about Jews on the basis of modern Polish drama. The plays, which will be analyzed, were written during the workshop by Tadeusz Słobodzianek and „Laboritorium Dramatu” in 2007 in Nasutov (Lublin region). As a result of these meetings the following plays were written: „Our Class” by T. Słobodzianek, „Suitcase” by Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, „A Jew” by Artur Pałyga, „Nothing, that is human” by Artur Pałyga, Piotr Ratajczak, Paweł Passini and „Compliance.(adherence)” by Piotr Rovitski. The main problem of these plays is the memory of Polish-Jewish relations during the Second World War in the context of modernity. These theatre texts had announced, that in the Polish society a dialogue took place. This dialogue concerned traumatic historical experience. The main message of the plays is an emotional feeling of guilt. The image of the Jew has undergone transformation, Jew is not like an alien any more, he was accepted into a common cultural space and memory.

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collective memory, Jews, stereotypes, Polish-Jewish relations, World War II



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Maciupa , O. (2015). Farewell to the strangeness. Signs of Jewish memory in the new Polish drama. Jewish Studies. Almanac, 5(5), 29–41. https://doi.org/10.56583/sz.483

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