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The Obligatory Horrors: Translating Tadeusz Borowski's Holocaust Narratives Into German and English
Edinburgh Research Explorer The Obligatory Horrors: Translating Tadeusz Borowski’s Holocaust Narratives into German and English Citation for published version: Davies, P 2008, 'The Obligatory Horrors: Translating Tadeusz Borowski’s Holocaust Narratives into German and English', Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History', vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 23-40. <http://www.vmbooksuk.com/acatalog/journals/JHE/JHE_contents.htm> Link: Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer Document Version: Peer reviewed version Published In: Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History' Publisher Rights Statement: © Davies, P. (2008). The Obligatory Horrors: Translating Tadeusz Borowski’s Holocaust Narratives into German and English. Holocaust Studies, 14(2), 23-40. General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 27. Sep. 2021 142jhs02.qxd 05/05/2009 13:34 Page 23 The Obligatory Horrors: Translating Tadeusz Borowski’s Holocaust Narratives into German and English PETER DAVIES This paper explores the English and German translations of Tadeusz Borowski’s Holocaust narratives, suggesting that the translations raise questions about the status of literature and testimony in the different cultural contexts into which they are translated. -
A Critical Approach to the Holocaust Short Story
THE COLLAPSE OF TIME, HOME, AND RELATIONSHIPS: A CRITICAL APPROACH TO THE HOLOCAUST SHORT STORY by Mary Catherine Mueller APPROVED BY SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE: . Dr. David A. Patterson, Chair . Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth . Dr. Nils Roemer . Dr. Rainer Schulte Copyright 2018 Mary Catherine Mueller All Rights Reserved To my family In memory of my father, Clem In honor of my mother, Pamela THE COLLAPSE OF TIME, HOME, AND RELATIONSHIPS: A CRITICAL APPROACH TO THE HOLOCAUST SHORT STORY by MARY CATHERINE MUELLER, BA, MA DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The University of Texas at Dallas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HUMANITITES – STUDIES IN LITERATURE THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS May 2018 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.” – Lamentations 3:22-23 To my professors: I am grateful for each one of you whom I have had the pleasure of learning from and working with throughout my academic journey. I am also thankful for the financial assistance that I received throughout my graduate and doctoral studies; I would not have been able to complete my doctoral studies without financial support in the form of research grants, travel grants, Teaching Assistantships, the Mike Jacobs Fellowship in Holocaust Studies, and Research Assistantships. To my Dissertation Committee: My doctoral research and dissertation writing would not have been possible without the guidance and encouragement of my Dissertation Committee – specifically my Chair, Dr. David Patterson. Thank you, Dr. Patterson, for your profound insights, encouraging feedback, and continuous guidance whilst I was researching and writing my dissertation. -
Late Poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz
Modes of Reading Texts, Objects, and Images: Late Poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz by Olga Ponichtera A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Toronto © Copyright by Olga Ponichtera 2015 Modes of Reading Texts, Objects, and Images: Late Poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz Olga Ponichtera Doctor of Philosophy Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Toronto 2015 Abstract This dissertation explores the late oeuvre of Tadeusz Różewicz (1921-2014), a world- renowned Polish poet, dramatist, and prose writer. It focuses primarily on three poetic and multi-genre volumes published after the political turn of 1989, namely: Mother Departs (Matka Odchodzi) (1999), professor’s knife (nożyk profesora) (2001), and Buy a Pig in a Poke: work in progress (Kup kota w worku: work in progress) (2008). The abovementioned works are chosen as exemplars of the writer’s authorial strategies / modes of reading praxis, prescribed by Różewicz for his ideal audience. These strategies simultaneously reveal the poet himself as a reader (of his own texts and the works of other authors). This study defines an author’s late style as a response to the cognitive and aesthetic evaluation of one’s life’s work, artistic legacy, and metaphysical angst of mortality. Różewicz’s late works are characterized by a tension between recognition and reconciliation to closure, and difficulty with it and/or opposition to it. Authorial construction of lyrical subjectivity as a reader, and modes of textual construction are the central questions under analysis. This study examines both, Tadeusz Różewicz as a reader, and the authorial strategies/ modes he creates to guide the reading praxis of the authorial audience. -
Kafka's Metamorphosis and Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies Vol. 6, No. 2, 2010 Unconsciousness and Survival: Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Borowski’s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Inez Martinez, Ph.D. Introduction: Literature as revelatory of psyche On the edge—the theme of crisis.1 The survival of our species is in doubt. As Jung said in response to the atomic bomb, “It is now a question of existence or non- existence . .” (“Epilogue,” Essays on Contemporary Events 90). In addition to the possibility of nuclear holocaust, we face the human threats to earth‟s life-support systems. Distinguished Jungian thinkers have offered hopeful responses to these crises. At the 2010 joint IAJS and JSSS Conference, for example, Roger Brooks detailed the healing potential of communal grief, and Jerome Bernstein articulated his vision of the evolution of psyche as it compensates the power-engorged Western ego through the development of “borderland personalities.” We know Jung‟s prescription. After acknowledging that “the principal and indeed the only thing wrong with the world is man” (“After the Catastrophe,” Essays 72), he placed his hope in the development of consciousness in individuals, in particular development of self-consciousness about one‟s own shadow. He writes: “But in reality only a change in the attitude of the individual can bring about a renewal in the spirit of the nations. We must begin by breaking [the power principle] in ourselves” (“Epilogue,” Essays 75). Daunting as this hope is, I am presenting even bleaker visions of human survival through Franz Kafka‟s Metamorphosis and Tadeusz Borowski‟s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. -
Night Over Birkenau
Dissident Voices The Poetry of Resistance Night Over Birkenau FEBRUARY 3, 2017JANUARY 29, 2017 / JR Night again. Again the grim sky closes circling like a vulture over the dead silence. Like a crouching beast over the camp the moon sets, pale as a corpse. And like a shield abandoned in battle, blue Orion — lost among the stars. The transports growl in darkness and the eyes of the crematorium blaze. It’s steamy, stifling. Sleep is a stone. Breath rattles in my throat. This lead foot crushing my chest is the silence of three million dead. Night, night without end. No dawn comes. My eyes are poisoned from sleep. Like God’s judgment on the corpse of the earth, fog descends over Birkenau. — Tadeusz Borowski (Trans. by Tadeusz Pióro) Journalist and underground poet Tadeusz Borowski was arrested in February 1943 and taken to Pawiak, a Warsaw prison used by Nazis to interrogate Polish citizens under torture. From Pawiak, Borowski was sent to Auschwitz, where he was condemned to forced labor. He was later transported to a subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof and then to Dachau. After the war, he spent time in a displaced-persons camp in Munich before returning to Warsaw via Paris in 1946. Once in Poland, he joined the Communist Party, but felt betrayed when the Party arrested and tortured a close friend of his because of alleged “rightest- nationalistic deviations.” Borowski committed suicide in 1951. He was 28 years old. [Research note: Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (London: Penguin Books, 1967).] Advertisements REPORT THIS AD Uncategorized HOLOCAUST , POLAND CREATE A FREE WEBSITE OR BLOG AT WORDPRESS.COM.. -
Fictional Representatives of Women in the Holocaust Shauna Copeland University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal Volume 4 Article 6 Fall 2003 Double Victims: Fictional Representatives of Women in the Holocaust Shauna Copeland University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry Part of the European History Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Copeland, Shauna (2003) "Double Victims: Fictional Representatives of Women in the Holocaust," Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 4 , Article 6. Available at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry/vol4/iss1/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Inquiry: The nivU ersity of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Copeland: Double Victims: Fictional Representatives of Women in the Holocau 14 INQUIRY Volume 4 2003 DOUBLE VICTIMS: FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN THE HOLOCAUST By Shauna Copeland Department of English Faculty Mentor: Mark E. Cory Professor of German and Director of European Studies Abstract: overlooked female authors like Charlotte Delbo and Cynthia Ozickcan contribute greatly to a better understanding ofwomen's Traditional Holocaust studies have largely overlooked double victimization, often revealing new insight into Holocaust women's unique voices, instead treating the eloquent and moving experiences that have -
A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Alfred University Effects of Trauma on Holocaust Survivor Mental Health Under the Supervisi
I A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Alfred University Effects of Trauma on Holocaust Survivor Mental Health Natalie L Skwarek In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for The Alfred University Honors Program May, 2011 Under the Supervision of Chair: Danielle D. Gagne Committee Members: Dr. Robert Reginio and Dr. Nancy F. Furlong Skwarek 1 Effects of Trauma on Holocaust Survivor Mental Health Brought up in a household of Polish immigrants, the subject of the Holocaust has been discussed extensively and continually throughout my lifetime. The earliest recollections I have of hearing the word Holocaust is as a little girl, sitting on my grandfather's lap as he would emphasize the word repeatedly, sharing with me the bleak realities ofresiding in Poland as a teenage boy during World War II. I would listen as he reminisced about the darkest days of his life, and soon became all too aware that this word, and everything that it represents, would come to deeply impact my perceptions of the world and humanity. Interestingly, my perceptions of the Holocaust have also been molded by my grandmother's refusal to talk about it, as her memories of the event are too painful for her to share with anybody, even those who are closest to her. My grandparents, in their two dissimilar ways, have taught me the importance of remembering not only this event, but also the capacity of humans to inflict suffering and to sustain it with strength. Indeed, I have never forgotten my grandparents' trials and tribulations during this infamous period of history, nor have I forgotten about the millions of victims who did not survive Hitler's vicious pursuit of Jewish and minority destruction. -
Presentation for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Mother of all Holocaust Films? Wanda Jakubowska’s Auschwitz trilogy by Hanno Loewy “We must first speak about the genre of this wonderful Polish film.”1 With these words in 1948 Béla Balázs, one of the first and most influential film-theorists of all times, began his discussion of Wanda Jakubowska’s Ostatni Etap (The Last Stop / The Last Stage), the first feature film, that made the attempt to represent the horrors of Auschwitz, the experiences, made in midst of the universe of mass extermination. Filmed during summer 1947 on the site of the camp itself and its still existing structures, directed and written by two former prisoners of the women’s camp in Birkenau, performed not only by actors but also by extras, who had suffered in the camp themselves, Jakubowska’s film acquired soon the status of a document in itself. [illustration #1] Béla Balázs did not only praise The Last Stop for its dramatic merits. He discussed the failure, the inadequacies of traditional genres to embody what happened in the camps. Himself a romantic Communist, but also a self-conscious Jew, he spent half of his life in exile, in Vienna, Berlin and Moscow. And in the end of 1948 he was about to leave Hungary for a second time, now deliberately, to become dramaturgic advisor of the DEFA in East Berlin. But that never happened. Just having settled his contract, he died in Budapest, in May 1949. In 1948 Béla Balázs is far away from any conceptualizing of the Shoah as a paradigm, but he senses something uneasy about the idea of having represented these events as a classical tragedy, or a comedy, or a novel. -
MAKING SENSE of CZESLAW MILOSZ: a POET's FORMATIVE DIALOGUE with HIS TRANSNATIONAL AUDIENCES by Joanna Mazurska
MAKING SENSE OF CZESLAW MILOSZ: A POET’S FORMATIVE DIALOGUE WITH HIS TRANSNATIONAL AUDIENCES By Joanna Mazurska Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in History August, 2013 Nashville, Tennessee Approved: Professor Michael Bess Professor Marci Shore Professor Helmut W. Smith Professor Frank Wcislo Professor Meike Werner To my parents, Grazyna and Piotr Mazurscy II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to the members of my Dissertation Committee: Michael Bess, Marci Shore, Helmut Smith, Frank Wcislo, and Meike Werner. Each of them has contributed enormously to my project through providing professional guidance and encouragement. It is with immense gratitude that I acknowledge the support of my mentor Professor Michael Bess, who has been for me a constant source of intellectual inspiration, and whose generosity and sense of humor has brightened my academic path from the very first day in graduate school. My thesis would have remained a dream had it not been for the institutional and financial support of my academic home - the Vanderbilt Department of History. I am grateful for the support from the Vanderbilt Graduate School Summer Research Fund, the George J. Graham Jr. Fellowship at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Max Kade Center Graduate Student Research Grant, the National Program for the Development of the Humanities Grant from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the New York University Remarque Institute Visiting Fellowship. I wish to thank to my friends at the Vanderbilt Department of History who have kept me company on this journey with Milosz. -
Shelter from the Holocaust
Shelter from the Holocaust Shelter from the Holocaust Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union Edited by Mark Edele, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Atina Grossmann Wayne State University Press | Detroit © 2017 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca. ISBN 978-0-8143-4440-8 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8143-4267-1 (paper) ISBN 978-0-8143-4268-8 (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: 2017953296 Wayne State University Press Leonard N. Simons Building 4809 Woodward Ave nue Detroit, Michigan 48201-1309 Visit us online at wsupress . wayne . edu Maps by Cartolab. Index by Gillespie & Cochrane Pty Ltd. Contents Maps vii Introduction: Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union 1 mark edele, sheila fitzpatrick, john goldlust, and atina grossmann 1. A Dif er ent Silence: The Survival of More than 200,000 Polish Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II as a Case Study in Cultural Amnesia 29 john goldlust 2. Saved by Stalin? Trajectories and Numbers of Polish Jews in the Soviet Second World War 95 mark edele and wanda warlik 3. Annexation, Evacuation, and Antisemitism in the Soviet Union, 1939–1946 133 sheila fitzpatrick 4. Fraught Friendships: Soviet Jews and Polish Jews on the Soviet Home Front 161 natalie belsky 5. Jewish Refugees in Soviet Central Asia, Iran, and India: Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue 185 atina grossmann v COntents 6. Identity Profusions: Bio- Historical Journeys from “Polish Jew” / “Jewish Pole” through “Soviet Citizen” to “Holocaust Survivor” 219 john goldlust 7. -
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THE SARMATIAN REVIEW Vol. XXI, No. 2 April 2001 One Great Thing Archilochus Madeleine Korbel Albright, during whose tenure as the United States Secretary of State three countries of East Central Europe were admitted to NATO. Photo courtesy of the U. S. State Department. 778 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW April 2001 The Sarmatian Review (ISSN 1059- independent research. The USA, which 5872) is a triannual publication of the Polish In- From the Editor leads the world in research, has never had stitute of Houston. The journal deals with Polish, the habilitacja. Central, and Eastern European affairs, and their Our cover page photo is of Madeleine implications for the United States. We specialize On 26 February 2001 in The Wall Street in the translation of documents. Albright to whom thanks are due for co- Journal, Cecilie Rohwedder and David Subscription price is $15.00 per year for individu- ordinating the admission to NATO of Wessel criticized German universities in als, $21.00 for institutions and libraries ($21.00 Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hun- ways similar to those that Professor for individuals, $27.00 for libraries overseas, air gary. For the sixty million inhabitants of mail). The views expressed by authors of articles Skibniewski employs with regard to Pol- do not necessarily represent those of the Editors these countries, admission to NATO sym- ish universities (“Despite Proud Past, or of the Polish Institute. Articles are subject to bolically meant a readmission to the West- German Universities Fail by Many Mea- editing. Unsolicited manuscripts and other mate- ern world. As Professor Schlottmann sures”). -
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Journal Title Web Address Contact Details Additional Information from the Journal/Publisher Website Central http://www.mane Lynne Medhurst at Maney Publishing: A refereed print journal published biannually devoted to Europe y.co.uk/search?f Tel: +44 (0)113 284 6135 history, literature, political culture, and society of the lands waction=show&f Fax: +44 (0)113 248 6983 once belonging to the Habsburg Empire and Poland-Lithuania wid=141 Email: [email protected] from the Middle Ages to the present. It publishes articles, debates, marginalia as well as book, music and film reviews Journal of http://www.tandf. No contact detalis available. Devoted to the process of regime change, including in its Communist co.uk/journals/titl material contributions from within the affected societies and to Studies and es/13523279.asp Chief & Managing Editor: Stephen White the effects of the upheaval on communist parties, ruling and Transition University of Glasgow, UK non-ruling, both in Europe and in the wider world Politics Magyar Lettre www.eurozine.co Eva Karadi, [email protected] Internationale, m Budapest NZ Mischa Gabowitsch (Moscow) Slavonic and http://www.mhra. Deputy Editor: Barbara Wyllie A quarterly published by the School of Slavonic and East East European org.uk/Publicatio Tel. +44 (0) 20 7679 8724 European Studies, University College London, devoted to Review ns/Journals/seer. Email: [email protected] Eastern Europe html Slovo http://www.ssees. Email: [email protected] A refereed journal discussing Russian, Eurasian, Central and ac.uk/slovo.htm