A Hide-out in Demo Version
The Keret House in Warsaw as Re-enactment of Jewish Hiding
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904326 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elżbieta Janicka (0000-0002-0945-6886, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 83-116 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2014.11439097 |
| OpenAlex | W890997151 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
The text provides a critical analysis of the so-called Keret House inaugurated in Warsaw in 2012: the ‘narrowest house in the world’, which was named after the Israeli writer Etgar Keret. I argue that, by means of this spatial installation, the place of ‘the Jews’ in Polish society in general and under the German occupation in particular are symbolically acted out again in the present, under the pretence of Polish-Jewish rapprochement. This, I argue, amounts to a form of philosemit-ic violence and a collective Freudian slip whereby ‘the Jew’ is symbolically rein-scribed into his invisible and unsafe place by the ‘Polish eye’ Additional informationNotes on contributorsElżbieta JanickaElżbieta Janicka is a historian of literature, cultural anthropologist, photographer, MA at the Université Paris VII Denis Diderot (1994); PhD at Warsaw University (2004). Author of the following books: Sztuka czy Naród? Monografia pisarska Andrzeja Trzebińskiego [Art or the Nation? On Andrzej Trzebiński’s Literary Output] (Kraków: Universitas, 2006) and Festung Warschau (Warsaw: Krytyka Polityczna, 2011), an analysis of the symbolic topography of the former area of the Warsaw Ghetto. Currently working at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Judaism · Political science · Sociology · The Holocaust · Central European Literary Studies · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |