Literary Images of Jewish Lviv: Oblivion, Return and Re-Creation
Dr. Katarzyna Kotynska
Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of SciencesJune 28, 2011 / 5.30 pm
Center for Urban History, Lviv
We all know countless texts about Lviv, based on which we can easily image it as either a magical, multicultural city, or a city for which Ukrainians fought with Poles to call "their own". Both variations are attractively simple, and in their own way, satisfactory. But in each image we lose sight of the Jews of Lviv. What did they write about their Lviv? And what did their neighbors write about them?
The lecture will be given in Polish.
Lecture is a part of the 2nd annual "Jewish History and Culture of East-Central Europe" Summer School.
Dr. Katarzyna Kotynska
is a researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), instructor at Jagiellonski University, and translator of Ukrainian literature. Her research interests include Lviv as a literary phenomenon, and the history of Ukrainian literary essay.
Credits
Сover Image: Great suburban synagogue on Bozhnycha Street, 1910-1914. Claudia Erdheim Collection / Urban media archive