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Student Presentation #1

~Mina Halladay

Introduction

Warsaw

Introduction

Topics:

  • Spinoza,
  • Spinoza's Ethics,
  • Warsaw,
  • Amor Dei Intellectualis,
  • Zurich,
  • Chassidic study house,
  • "Russian policeman on the street,"
  • Berlin Jewish Community,
  • Zionism,
  • Mishnah,
  • Tishvitz,
  • sub specie aeternitatis,
  • German March on Warsaw,
  • Yiddish,
  • "Lessing, Klopfstock, and Goethe"

Warsaw

  • The capital of Poland
  • Largest city in Poland
  • The 8th most-populous capital city in the European Union with over 1 million residents
  • Founded during the 13th century

Warsaw

Past

Past...

  • After WWII "90% of Warsaw’s buildings had been demolished and most of its population murdered"

  • "On 1 August 1915 the German army entered Warsaw" - The beginning of WWI

  • Warsaw was in poverty during WWI and WWII

Present

Present

  • "As of October 2018, the population of Warsaw is about 1.8 million people."

  • "The city of Warsaw covers a total area of 517 square kilometers (200 square miles)."

  • "The average elevation of the city is about 100 meters (330 ft) above sea level."

Spinoza at Market Street

How does this topic relate to the story?

Warsaw and the story

Warsaw and the story

"The Germans had occupied Kalish, Bendin, and Cestechow, and they were marching on Warsaw."

"The family had lived in a cellar at No. 19 Market Street. When she had been ten, she had become a maid."

  • Warsaw was one of the main settings of the story

  • This setting helps us understand the context of the events that happened

  • Warsaw was in poverty

  • We see Black Dobbe in a low estate in the story during that time period

Conclusion

https://warsawlocal.com/historical-facts-about-warsaw/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw

https://awestruckwanderer.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/short-stories-the-spinoza-of-market-street-by-isaac-bashevis-singer-nobel-prize-of-literature/

Conclusion

https://www.google.com/

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