Magdalena Ruta is associate professor at the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where she teaches Yiddish language and literature. She has translated several prose works from Yiddish into Polish and published numerous articles on modern Yiddish literature.
Magdalena Ruta explores the virtually unknown area of Yiddish
literature created in Poland after World War II. She unravels
before general readers and future researchers numerous texts and
analyzes them in a lucid and captivating manner. The book should
appeal to readers from various disciplines as well as to a
non-scholarly audience as it touches upon difficult and complex
problems that only recently have become the subject of thorough
research and that are still perceived as controversial, such as
Polish-Jewish relations after the war, or the fascination of a
substantial number of Polish Jewish intellectuals with communism.
It is worth stressing that the author deals with this sensitive
topic competently and objectively.
*Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska*
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