The Love Story of Esterke and Kazimierz, King of Poland - New Perspectives

Nathan Cohen

doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/1872471x-12341280

The Love Story of Esterke and Kazimierz, King of Poland - New Perspectives

Nathan Cohen

Department of the Literature of the Jewish People

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

This article reveals and discusses four forgotten and unknown literary versions of the love story between the Polish King Kazimierz the Great (1310-1370) and Esterke, a young Jewish maiden from Opoczno. A fundamental research study by Khone Shmeruk in the 1980s examined the reception and molding of the Esterke story in both Polish and Yiddish literary works and their intertextuality. This article will discuss and analyze two Hebrew and two Yiddish versions of the story and will put each of them in its contemporary Jewish socio-political and cultural context.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	176-209
Number of pages	34
Journal	European Journal of Jewish Studies
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/1872471x-12341280
State	Published - 2015

Keywords

Conversion
Esterka
Esterke
King Kazimierz
National identity
Persecution
Polish-Jewish relations

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Cultural Studies
History
Religious studies
Literature and Literary Theory

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