Ten chudy Schlechter
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2013
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That Thin Schlechter
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The article relates the life and work of a pre-war author who is almost unknown by name, but very popular because of his work, an author of songs, cabaret sketches, and film scrips. He was born in a family of
assimilated Jews from Lviv. He made a great contribution to Polish language, both literary and colloquial, by writing song lyrics with phrasings that have become fixed expressions used in communication of the
simplest and most universal feelings. Schlechter became a victim of the Holocaust, and his artistic work, which focused on joy and the bright side of life, did not protect him physically and mentally from the Nazi
death machine. He was killed in Lviv ghetto, probably in 1943.
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pre-war Polish song, cabaret, comedy, Polish pre-war film, popular culture, Lviv ghetto, Holocaust, Polish-Jewish artist identity
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PoznaĆskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2013, nr 22, s. 55-70