The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture

Index

Aaron, Frieda: as Milosz scholar, 154n35; as Szlengel scholar, 20, 142n8, 143n19, 145n48 Absence, 4, 40, 69, 72, 102, 120; of data, 7, 10, 39, 126, 141n26; deletion, 40, 42, 50, 79, 96; erasure from representation, 29, 36, 40, 42, 59, 75–77, 82–84, 100, 104, 141, 146n15, 152n35; exclusion of human presence, 23, 78; lack, 69; in trace, 10, 83. See also under Ellipsis Accumulation, 3–4, 18, 67, 132, 142–143n17; accretion, 3, 123, 136; amassing, 3, 5, 18, 126, 133–134, 139nn1,5, 142–143n17; versus collection, 2–3, 133; of corpses, 67; piling, 18, 64, 123, 132–133, 139n1; heaps, 122; plethora of, 23, 48, 77; surplus of, 76, 123 Afterlife, 13, 71, 75, 78, 80–84, 153– 154n29; eschatology, 65, 71, 78–79, 85; negation of, 65, 85; as specular concept, 80–83. See also Ashes Agalma, 12; agalmatic (paradigm), 12, 47–48, 115–116; as coinage, 147– 148n39; as desire, 12, 46–48; as dispossession, 58, 115–116. See also Lacan, Jacques Agamben, Giorgio: on camp, 124, 127; on dignity, 32, 145n46; La Capra on, 125, 128, 160n30; on the Muselmann, 124; as a political philosopher, 41, 124; on witness, 126–128; works by: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, 124; Means without End: Notes on Politics, 124; Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, 145n46, 157n1 Agency, 6, 17, 27, 31, 33, 48, 65, 75, 84, 110, 119–120 Amery, Jean: On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death, 30, 32, 128, 144n40 Anatomical, 67, 82, 149n6, 151n31 Andrzejewski, Jerzy: archives of, 96–97; as author, 95–98, 155n11; mimetic paradigm, 12; works by: “At the Court” (short story), 154n2; A Book for Marcin (autobiographical), 155n6; A Heart’s Order (novel), 95; Holy Week (novel), 96–111, 154–155n2, 155nn5,12; How I Became a Writer (autobiographical), 97; “Night” (short story), 155n4; Notes to the Autobiography (autobiographical ), 97; “Problems of Polish Antisemitism ” (essay), 115n11, 155n10; Pulp, 155n11 Archives (archiving), 8–9, 18, 39, 57–58, 95–97, 73, 109, 113, 129–130, 139n1, 155n12; Oyneg Shabes (Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto), 8–9, 41, 140nn14,15,17,19, 141nn20,22. See also Precarium Arendt, Hannah: on homo sacer, 124; on public-private opposition, 115; on totalitarian power, 124, 139n9, 142n10, 145n4; works by: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Index 176 index Evil, 158n14, 158–159n17; The Human Condition, 158n15; The Origins of Totalitarianism, 4, 68, 139n9, 158n7 Aristotle: on touch, 116–117, 159n18; work by: On the Soul and On Memory and Recollection, 112, 143n21 Artifact(s), 3, 6–7, 47, 55, 77, 132 Ashes, 13, 77–79, 81–85, 87, 90, 114, 134, 136, 153n21, 154nn35,37,39 Attachment to objects, 95, 112, 118–121; sensuous, 120. See also Proximity Authenticity, 1, 5, 64, 128; authentic, 131; authentification, 131 Belongings, 2, 13, 50, 95, 107, 112, 114, 118, 121–124, 143n20, 160n2 Bentham, Jeremy: as founder of utilitarianism, 56; on law and property, 4; on property, 95, 107–108, 139n8; works by: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation , 56; Theory of Legislation, 4 Blood, 29–30, 38, 43–45, 83, 124; in slaughterhouses, 150n16 Body (bodies), 12, 40, 81–83, 85–86, 99, 115, 126, 148n41; abject, 29, 58, 68, 70, 116; bodily (unity), 60; boiling of, 151n31; embodiment, 65, 84; fragmented (dismembered), 60–68, 70, 77–79, 85, 150n25; functions, 114, 116–117; gassing, burning of, 10, 84, 114; Jewish, 43–45, 47–48, 58; poet’s body, 49, 83, 91; proximity with, 47, 131; recycled, 56, 58, 60–61, 66–68, 70; testimony of, 86; uncontrollable, 125. See also under Agalma Borowski, Tadeusz, 32; his concept of concentration camp, 113–114, 123–124; his life, 112–113; his recognition, 157n1; works by: “Auschwitz, Our Home” (short story), 114, 124, 158n12; “A Boy with the Bible” (short story), 157–158n4; “To the Comrade Inmate” (poem), 112; “A Day at Harmenz” (short story), 116–118, 159n20; Farewell to Maria (collection of short stories), 158n6; “The Man with a Package” (short story), 118–121, 159n22; “The People Who Walked On” (short story), 124–125, 158n16; The Poetic Sheet of Paper (poems), 157n2; “A True Story” (short story), 127-128, 157–158n4; This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (collection of short stories), 157n1; “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” (short story), 115, 122–123, 145n45, 159n28; We Were in Auschwitz (co-authored essays and short stories), 121–122, 125–126, 159n25...