{"id":541,"date":"2019-02-11T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/?page_id=541"},"modified":"2023-12-06T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:07:13","slug":"ada-judytka-i-zaginiony-tales-ada-judytka-and-the-missing-tallit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/en\/ada-judytka-i-zaginiony-tales-ada-judytka-and-the-missing-tallit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Judytka i zaginiony ta\u0142es [Ada Judytka and the Missing Tallit]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Author: Agnieszka Suchowierska<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Illustrator: Dorota \u0141oskot-Cichocka<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Year: 2017<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Publisher: Literatura<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Place of publication: \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Pages: 69<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
ISBN: 9788376725321<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Cover courtesy of the publisher. \u00a9Wydawnictwo Literatura<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The story, set in modern times, narrates the life of a ten-year-old girl Ada Judytka, who lives in Bia\u0142ystok<\/a> with her Jewish mother and a father of a different denomination. In her diary, which Ada types on her laptop, she describes certain aspects of Judaism and Jewish culture. Apart from the eponymous tallit<\/a>, she mentions the tongue-twister song Chiribim Chiribom<\/i>, famous Bia\u0142ystok Jews (for example Ludwik Zamenhof<\/a>, the creator of Esperanto), Jewish holidays (the Shabbat<\/a>, Hanukkah<\/a>, Rosh Hashanah<\/a>, Yom Kippur<\/a>), the Hebrew alphabet, Fiddler on the Roof<\/i>, the dreidel<\/a>, the shofar<\/a>, and so on. The characters visit POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews<\/a>. The culture of Judaism is compared to the beliefs and traditions of Ada\u2019s schoolmates, Orthodox Christian Ksenia and Catholic Kuba. At back of the book, a paper DIY dreidel can be found, as well as a mini-dictionary with a number of ideas referring not only to Judaism and Jewish culture, but also other religions and customs described in the text.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Holocaust is mentioned as part of an account of Jewish history in Bia\u0142ystok. At the outbreak World War Two, a large Jewish community thrived there. Some of the Jews managed to escape the enemy. As for the ones who stayed, “the Nazis first locked them up in the Ghetto, and then killed them” (p. 16). Here, Ada admits that her mother is afraid of revealing her Jewish ancestry precisely because of these past events and her resulting fear of anti-Semitism. This is a remarkable feature in Agnieszka Suchowierska\u2019s text as she emphasizes the continued fear of anti-Semitism looming over the contemporary community of Polish Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

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