Discontinued intergenerational transmission? The multilingualism in the Free City of Gdańsk the autobiographies of authors of Jewish origin

Abstract

This paper investigates the narration about the multilingualism in the Free City of Gdańsk in the autobiographies of authors of Jewish origin from Gdansk. Their families and the Free City of Gdańsk are defined as borderlands space/cultural dimension between Jews in Western and Eastern Europe with their different cultural models. The main point of the essay is the question, how the authors reflect the cultural hierarchisation in their own families and in the community of the Free City Gdańsk and intergenerational transmission of Eastern European languages in process of socialisation of Jewish children.