''Midrasz'' ( he, מדרש) was a
Polish language
Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In a ...
monthly journal covering Jewish culture, literature and other topics published in Warsaw, Poland. It existed between April 1997 and December 2019.
History and profile
''Midrasz'' was founded in 1997 by
Konstanty Gebert
Konstanty Julian Gebert (pseudonym ''Dawid Warszawski''; born 22 August 1953) is a Polish journalist and a History of the Jews in Poland, Jewish activist, as well as one of the most notable war correspondents of various Polish daily newspapers.
...
, a renowned Polish journalist, war correspondent and
Polish-Jewish activist.
[Cisak, pp. 113-115] The first issue appeared in April 1997.
The journal was devoted to Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish culture, art, literature, history and religion, as well as contemporary matters.
''Midrasz'' also published
book review
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A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is merely described (summary review) or analyzed based on content, style, and merit.
A book review may be a primary source, opinion piece, summary review or scholarly revie ...
s and longer
essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...
s on a regular basis.
Regular contributors included
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrat ...
,
Wilhelm Dichter,
Henryk Grynberg,
Eva Hoffman
Eva Hoffman (born Ewa Wydra on 1 July 1945) is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning writer and academic.
Early life and education
Eva Hoffman was born in Kraków, Poland, shortly after World War II. Her parents, Boris and Maria Wydra, surv ...
,
Hanna Krall
Hanna Krall (born 1935), is a Polish writer with a degree in journalism from the University of Warsaw, specializing among other subjects in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland.
Personal life
Krall is of Jewish origin, the daughter of ...
,
Maria Janion
Maria may refer to:
People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
*170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
*Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...
,
Krystyna Kersten
Krystyna Kersten (penname, Jan Bujnowski; born May 25, 1931 in Poznań – July 10, 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian and a professor at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Fellow of Collegium Invisibile. Born in Pozn ...
,
Jerzy Tomaszewski and
Jan Woleński.
Approximately 80% of the readers of ''Midrasz'' were educated people between the age of 20 and 40; roughly 40% of the readers were Catholics, 25% were atheists and 15% were Jews.
The journal was closed down due to financial problems.
The last issue of ''Midrasz'' was published in December 2019.
References
Citations
Bibliography
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External links
Official website
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2019 disestablishments in Poland
Defunct literary magazines published in Poland
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