The Interconnection of Jewish and Christian Motifs in Literary Works by Vojtěch Rakous and Eliza Orzeszková: Notes to „Centrism” and „Exclusivity” of Depicted Space
Alexej Mikulášek
IN: Stredoeurópske pohľady, Vol. I., Issue 2, 2019, pp. 45-55, ISSN 2644-6367 (print), ISSN-2644-6472 (online)
DOI: 10.17846/CEV.2019.01.2.45-55
Abstract:
The following study deals with the permeation and interaction of Jewish ani Christian elements, or the barrier and hedge between them, in the collection of stories Modche a Rezi written by Vojtěch Rakous (1862 – 1935) and in the novel Meir Ezofowicz, created in 1878 by a famous Polish writer Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841 – 1910). Modche a Rezi was the most celebrated cycle of Rakous’s works and brought a lot of humoristic and comic, mainly situation images. Orzeszkowa’s novel brings first and foremost tragical images from the Polish-Belorussian-Lithuanian ghetto named Šibov.
