Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2013
Abstract
This study examines the renewal of the Jewish culture in Poland after the Second World War in the context of the Holocaust, communism, emigration and pre-war cultural tradition of Polish Jews. Although the majority of Polish Jews was killed during the Holocaust, several survivors strived to restore Jewish culture in post-war Poland.
These efforts were partly and temporarily successful: During the second half of the forties Polish Jews enjoyed cultural autonomy; they had their own cultural institutions. Nevertheless, at the beginning of the fifties, this autonomy was abolished, many institutions were closed and majority of Jewish artists, writers and poets emigrated.