The thematic block of the 14th issue of Colloquia Humanistica (2025) is entitled Commemoration of Jewish Culture, Tradition and Heritage Outside Western Europe. The Discussions. Presentations. Book Reviews section complements this subject matter, as it contains an article in which Jolanta Sujecka discusses Jewish sites of memory on the examples of Sofia, Kielce and Warsaw, Muhammad Muhammad’s paper on the perception of Jews in the Qur’an, but also Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s text on the memory of the Jews from Pomerania, Nourit Melcer-Padon’s presentation of an Italian monograph by Benedetto Ligorio, and Katarzyna Taczyńska’s review of an anthology of Polish Yiddish women poets translated from Polish into Serbian. An article by Teresa Dobrzyńska outlines the Slavic Comparative Metrics programme, headed by Lucylla Pszczołowska, at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Literary Research.
The term "Jewish sites of memory" that I have made the subject of my paper refers to sites connected with Jewish culture and the Jewish past, but I also try to describe their special status both in the context of Jewish tradition and from the point of view of the present day. I analyse all three cities mentioned in the title: Sofia, Keltz - Kielce, and Varshe - Warsaw, as well as the sites of memory within them, as illustrations of this term's semantic scope while also asking about the contemporary (after Shoah) status of Jewish sites of memory in these three urban contexts, and in the two national discourses: Bulgarian and Polish.
The thematic block of the 14th issue of Colloquia Humanistica (2025) is entitled Commemoration of Jewish Culture, Tradition and Heritage Outside West ern Europe. The Discussions. Presentations. Book Reviews section complements this subject matter, as it contains an article in which Jolanta Sujecka discusses Jewish sites of memory on the examples of Sofia, Kielce and Warsaw, Muhammad Muhammad's paper on the perception of Jews in the Qur'an, but also Grzegorz Kwiatkowski's text on the memory of the Jews from Pomerania, Nourit Melcer-Padon's presentation of an Italian monograph by Benedetto Ligorio, and Katarzyna Taczy & nacute;ska's review of an anthology of Polish Yiddish women poets translated from Polish into Serbian. An article by Teresa Dobrzy & nacute;ska outlines the Slavic Comparative Metrics programme, headed by Lucylla Pszczo & lstrok;owska, at the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of Literary Research.
The thematic block of the 14th issue of Colloquia Humanistica (2025) is entitled Commemoration of Jewish Culture, Tradition and Heritage Outside Western Europe. The Discussions. Presentations. Book Reviews section complements this subject matter, as it contains an article in which Jolanta Sujecka discusses Jewish sites of memory on the examples of Sofia, Kielce and Warsaw, Muhammad Muhammad’s paper on the perception of Jews in the Qur’an, but also Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s text on the memory of the Jews from Pomerania, Nourit Melcer-Padon’s presentation of an Italian monograph by Benedetto Ligorio, and Katarzyna Taczyńska’s review of an anthology of Polish Yiddish women poets translated from Polish into Serbian. An article by Teresa Dobrzyńska outlines the Slavic Comparative Metrics programme, headed by Lucylla Pszczołowska, at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Literary Research.
The review presents Sa druge strane pesme. Antologija poljskih jidiš pesnikinja [On the Other Side of the Poem: An Anthology of Polish Yiddish Women Poets], selected and translated by Biserka Rajčić, published by Presing in Mladenovac in 2024. The review analyzes how the translation of Yiddish poetry into Serbian, through Polish translations, affects the transmission of linguistic nuances and cultural context. The text highlights the distance of the Serbian translations from the original texts and the resulting shifts in meaning, while also emphasizing the anthology’s potential to inspire broader engagement with Yiddish literature and women’s poetic voices within the (post)Yugoslav cultural sphere.
