The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives

Alina Molisak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Polish Literature of the Twentieth Century at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and is a member of Gesellschaft für europäisch-jüdische Literaturstudien and the Polish Society of Yiddish Studies. She is the author of Judaizm jako los. Rzecz o Bogdanie Wojdowskim (2004) and Żydowska Warszawa – żydowski Berlin. Literacki portret miasta w pierwszej połowie XX wieku (2016), and co-editor of Polish and Hebrew Literature and National Identity (2010); Nach dem Vergessen. Rekurse auf den Holocaust in Ostmitteleuropa nach 1989 (2010); and Galician Polyphony: Places and Voices (2015), among others. She is interested in Polish-Jewish literature, the literature of the Holocaust, questions of identity, and the poetics of urban spaces.

Shoshana Ronen is a Professor and Head of the Hebrew Studies Department at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her publications include In Pursuit of the Void: Journeys to Poland in Contemporary Israeli Literature (2001); Nietzsche and Wittgenstein: In Search of Secular Salvation, (2002); Polin – A Land of Forests and Rivers: Images of Poland and Poles in Contemporary Hebrew Literature in Israel (2007), and A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Oziasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait (2015). Her research focuses on modern Hebrew literature, Jewish thought, and modern philosophy.