Colloquia Humanistica  

Jolanta Sujecka

Introductory CommentsThe ninth issue of Colloquia Humanistica (2020) contains a thematic section entitled Sephardim, Ashkenazim and Non-Jewish Peoples: Encounters Across Europe, but in fact the whole issue is devoted to Jewish topics.In the Materials, Sou... see more

Aleksandra Twardowska,Katarzyna Taczynska

Sephardim, Ashkenazim and Non-Jewish Peoples:  Encounters Across EuropeThe 9th issue of Colloquia Humanistica focuses in its entirety on Jewish/non-Jewish contacts. The papers, presentations of materials, discussions and reviews all share the theme o... see more

Sofija Grandakovska

Mnemotope of Zion and Theopolitical Chronotopes in Ottoman MacedoniaThe discussion in the text, through the intersection of the disciplines of literature and history, oral poetry and ethical sermons from the period of the Enlightenment proc... see more

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Transgenerational Memory: From Pre-Holocaust to Post-YugoslaviaThe study focuses on Fanika as an example of documentary writing by firstand second-generation survivors, i.e. women in the mother-daughter relationship (Hanna Altarac/Fanika Lu... see more

Oro Anahory-Librowicz

The Portrayal of Muslims and Christians in the Traditional Sephardic Tales of Northern MoroccoThe article analyzes the representation of Muslims and Christians in the folktales of the Sephardic Jews of northern Morocco. The stories are selected from ... see more

Izabela Olszewska

?Wir Deutschjuden”: The Image of Germans and Westjuden in the German-Language Jewish Press of the First World War and the Interwar PeriodThe interwar period was a highly special time in reference to defining and constructing all kinds of cultural ide... see more

Joanna Cukras-Stelagowska

Maria Piekarska

"Instead of Tombstones - a Tree, a Garden, a Grove": Early Israeli Forests as Environmental MemorialsThe article adds a material-semiotic memory studies perspective to the discussion on the two largest afforestation projects of early Israeli statehood:&nb... see more

Miloš M. Damjanovic

Relations among Jews and Gentiles in Kosovo and Metohija between the Two World Wars: From Autocentrism to AssimilationThe period between the two world wars in Kosovo and Metohija (1918-1941) was a peak period of legal protection, economic d... see more

Milan Koljanin

The Jewish Community and Antisemitism in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia 1918-1941The Jews in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia made up about 0.5 percent of the total population. The new national framework prov... see more

Yurii Kaparulin

The Holocaust in Southern Ukraine: The Response of Survived Jews of Kalinindorf District after the German OccupationBased on archival documents and published and unpublished materials of oral history, the paper offers an overview of the Hol... see more

Eliezer Papo

?am Ribi Avram Finci’s Ladino Translation of Selected Texts from the Zohar as a Rare Glimpse into the Methodology of Traditional Bosnian Sephardic Yeshivot (Adult Learning Clubs) and Its Relation to the Local Sufi Islamic Tradition of ... see more

Marta Kacprzak

La ermoza istorya de Robinzon o la mizerya: Sephardi Versions of Robinson CrusoeIn the second half of the 19th century the Haskalah, an intellectual movement whose objective was to educate and westernize Eastern European Jews, also reached the S... see more

Michael Studemund-Halévy

The Longing to Belong: Santo Semo the Language ConvertThe paper focuses on Santo Semo’s journey of linguistic migration, from his native language (Judezmo) to his adopted language (French), and his desire for another linguistic identity. He focu... see more

Ljiljana Dobrovsak,Ivana Žebec Šilj

The Alexander Family ChronicleThe paper focuses on the history of Zagreb’s prominent Jewish family, the Alexanders (or Aleksanders), who were influential in the cultural, economic and social life of the city and Croatia for almost a century. At the time o... see more

Katarzyna Taczynska

The Feminine Sphere of Yiddish Heritage: Review of the book: Joanna Lisek (2018), Kol isze – glos kobiet w poezji jidysz (od XVI w. do 1939 r.). Sejny: Wydawnictwo Pogranicze.The review presents the monograph Kol isze – glos kobiet w poezji jidysz&nb... see more

Sofija Grandakovska

My Father’s Wars – Are Our Wars: Review of the Book: Alisse Waterstone (2014), My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century. New York and London: Rutledge Taylor & Francis GroupThe book My Father’s Wars by Alisse Waterston is a struc... see more

Tomasz Kamusella

Encounters with AntisemitismThe Holocaust destroyed Jewish communities across Europe and in Poland. Subsequently, in the Soviet bloc, most Jewish survivors were expelled from or coerced into leaving their countries, while the memory of the mille... see more