‘As Though It Were A Sacred Relic’: The Troubled Holocaust Poetry of Julian Tuwim

Myer Siemiatycki

doi:10.18778/2299-7458.13.16

Autor

Myer Siemiatycki Toronto Metropolitan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.13.16

Słowa kluczowe:

Julian Tuwim, Polish-Jewish poetry, Holocaust poetry, poetry, identity, hybridity

Abstrakt

The Polish-Jewish poet Julian Tuwim (1894–1953) was among the most widely read – and denounced! – writers of interwar Poland. Described as ‘a virtuoso of language’ in his beloved Polish mother tongue, Tuwim’s literary range was remarkable and varied. Most introspectively, his poetry expressed a simultaneous embrace and ambivalence, towards the dual identities he fiercely proclaimed: both Polish and Jewish. His poetry combined, stretched and challenged identities in unprecedented ways. This writing earned Tuwim a wide audience, along with many critics. Living in exile during the Second World War, Tuwim was among the first major European literary figures to write Holocaust poetry as genocide was being perpetrated. His searing Holocaust poems convey a longing for Poland, for a better Poland, and a solidarity of suffering with his brethren Jews. To the end, Julian Tuwim was a powerful, troubled Polish-Jewish literary voice. He was ever hunting for the words that could change his world and ours.

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Myer Siemiatycki - Toronto Metropolitan University

Myer Siemiatycki is Professor Emeritus of Politics, at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he was Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies. His research interests and publications have explored immigration, identity, urban, and labour studies.

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