Description

• Title:
  The image of God in memoirs and diaries of children of the Holocaust
• Creator:
  Szewczyk, Justyna
• Description:
  On the basis of diaries and memoires of children of the Holocaust (Rywka Lipszyc, Renia Knoll, Helga Weissova, Dawid Sierakowiak, Dawid Rubinowicz, Maryla, and Rutka Laskier), Justyna Szewczyk outlines the image of God that emerges in the minds of the protagonists. Using the methodology of the linguistic image of the world, she analyzes this image based on a number of categories: God as seen in tradition and in everyday life; God as seen through feelings, through human identity, fate, suffering, and fatherhood. Of great importance in extrapolating the image of God found in diaries and memoirs is personalization. Personalization manifests itself, for example, in replacing God’s central position, during religious holidays and festivals, with human problems; in transferring God’s traditional competencies to the worst enemies; and in describing God in terms which are familiar to children (spatial ones and those related to the senses). In the analyzed texts, God also acquires a historical coloring: as the creator of tradition and the performer of great miracles in the past, but also as an entity whose presence is no longer experienced today. Some personal accounts testify to a psychological manner of perceiving God, as when the protagonist transfers to God tasks not fulfilled by his or her earthly father.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Paidia i Literatura
• Date:
  2021.12.31
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Paidia and Literature; No. 3 (2021); 1-12;
  Paidia i Literatura; Nr 3 (2021); 1-12;
  Paidia i Literatura; № 3 (2021); 1-12;
  Paidia i Literatura; Číslo 3 (2021); 1-12;
  2719-4167
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/pl/article/view/12965/10077
• Subject:
  an image of God;
  diary;
  memoir;
  children of the Holocaust;
  a linguistic image of the world;
  anthropocentrism;
  category;
  by-the-language data
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/pl/article/view/12965
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text