Émigrés as Aneks: Polish Intellectuals Between East and West, 1968–1989

<p>This work focuses on <em>Aneks </em>(1973-1989), a publication that a small group of post-1968 émigrés, mostly Polish Jews, created in exile. Conceptualized as an “annex” to intellectual life in Poland, the publication<em> </em>was founded to help Polish intellectuals look beyond the country to better understand national problems. At the core of the enterprise were the Smolar brothers, who were in a unique position to offer such help: soon after their forced emigration due to rising antisemitism in communist Poland, Aleksander began to study with the great French liberal, Raymond Aron, and Eugeniusz began a career at the Polish section of the BBC. Like the older émigré journal <em>Kultura, Aneks </em>was printed in France for the majority of its publication run though its target audience was in Poland.<em> </em>What follows is an intellectual history or history of ideas framed by societal and generational trauma (war, antisemitism, genocide); by people grappling with Polishness and Jewishness both within themselves and society; by identity as something people struggle against and something they make for themselves.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2022

Author dc:creator

• Chelminski, Lukasz

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Richard Wolin

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Marta Petrusewicz
• Julia Sneeringer

• European History
• History
• Intellectual History
• Political History
• Marxism
• Christianity
• exile
• emigration
• Polish-Jewish relations
• identity
• Cold War
• reception

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5068

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-6201