Articles

Vol. 153 (2011)

Stereotyp těla v polských a českých židovských anekdotách

Štěpán Balík

Pages: 761 - 768

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Abstract

The stereotype of the body in Polish and Czech Jewish anecdotes

 

Researching a picture of Jew in Czech and Polish prewar collections of Pick’s, Poláček’s, Tuwim’s and Safrin’s Jewish anecdotes I concentrated on physical stereotypes. I showed how differences between Eastern European Jewry and Western European Jewry are revealed in Czech and Polish Jewish anecdotes. Moreover, a specific type of depicting an Eastern European Jew so-called Polish Jew polský Žid is present in both Czech collections of anecdotes especially by Pick. Studying these four collections of anecdotes, I had to redefine the picture of Jew, which would have been either a heterostereotype or an autostereotype. The imagological research allowed to offer a new more suitable term called heterostereotypical autostereotype, which matches the specific position of the asimilated Jewish author-narrator.

 

 

Citation rules

Balík, Štěpán. (2011). Stereotyp těla v polských a českých židovských anekdotách. Slavica Wratislaviensia, 153, 761–768. Retrieved from https://wuwr.pl/swr/article/view/4009