Bruno Schulz’s Poetics of Golus

On the Polish language as a medium for diasporic modernism

For many readers, Bruno Schulz‘s interwar short story collections evoke the memory of Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust. To Karen Underhill, Schulz’s stylistically innovative writing is also a movement through transient forms—the Polish language and childhood experiences in interwar Poland—into the exegetical “margins” of Jewish tradition." Recently, Underhill ...
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Bruno Schulz’s Poetics of Golus

Questioning Art in a Time of War

How the fabric of my sensory experience was transformed by Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitvah

Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah is nominally addressed to Jewish teens in the United States who are preparing for their B’nai Mitzvahs (a gender-neutral rendering of Bat or Bar Mitzvah). It was published in an edition of 3,000 by Wendy’s Subway, an independent Brooklyn publisher, with support from ...
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Questioning Art in a Time of War