Teodor Jeske-Choiński

Teodor Jeske-Choiński

Teodor Jeske-Choiński (27 February 1854 – 14 April 1920) was a Polish intellectual, writer, historian and literary critic.

He was a friend as well as an opponent of Henryk Sienkiewicz. Sienkiewicz's novels were focused rather on Polish history, but Jeske-Choińskis looked at the broader European context. In 1900 he published Tiara i korona, a novel about the dispute between the Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII.[1]

Joanna Michlic named him "one of the leading theorists and exponents of Anti-Semitism in Poland".[2] In 1951, the communist censorship completely banned all books, which made him completely forgotten among Polish public.

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  1. ^ Racjonalista
  2. ^ Joanna Beata Michlic, Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, University of Nebraska Press 2006, str. 54-56