Literature as a Medium for Memory: The Universe of Sholem Asch's Novels - Hardcover

by Krzysztof Zajas (Other), Magdalena Sitarz (Author)

The book focuses on the presentation of basic figures of memory that are present in the twenty-six novels by the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. This study shows how memory is crystallized in the Jewish experience of nature and in the reality shaped by people, as well as in the reception of the biblical and historical events to which the author refers.

Author Biography

Magdalena Sitarz graduated in German Philology at Jagiellonian University (Poland), where she also received her doctoral and post-doctoral degree. She has worked at the Institute of German Philology at Jagiellonian University since 1988, currently she is Assistant Professor. Her doctoral dissertation contains an analysis of Yiddish proverbs as compared to their Polish and German counterparts.