The Kielce pogrom in the Yiddish writings of Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust

Magdalena Ruta discuses literary responses of Polish-Yiddish writers to the pogrom in Kielce on 4 July 1946. The analysis comprises writings of those authors who were living in Poland at that time and were eye-witnesses to the anti-Semitic atmosphere in the country. Using different genres and stylistic techniques, most of them agree that the pogrom in Kielce was a breaking point in Polish-Jewish relations which helped the Jewish survivors to realize that Poland was no longer their homeland