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From the translation project I'm hoping to resume and finish next week. Stefania wrote this between the end of 1939 and January 1940. The fragment is reportage-documentalist quasi-memoir in the style of Kafka's paradoxical parables, the Book of Kings in Lublin & Elijah as tailor. Calling the chapter that addresses Stefania’s. Unaddressed. Everything. About the Holocaust. “Ten dom, gdzie byla moja zona, to sie zawalil na moich synow.”

#stefania tag #adam pragier didn't believe ciolkosz but stefania knew. she knew!#i think it is fucking important actually that the first thing stefania wrote when she was still shaken and shell shocked #after crossing the border the first thing she wrote before refining it into prose proper.#was about the jewish district was about a jewish tailor was about #the renaissance architecture was a carefully constructed parable about the fickle nature of sacrifice and #divine intervention as an extension of human will in history #and who or what sets the terms of sacrifice. and who draws the borders between yahweh and baal between christ and antichrist #it's just man and god but 'man' is a jew. that's what she writes first that's what she goes to.#that's what she returns to again and again and again

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