captain1
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Hello, I have a question: what is the meaning of the Line that is highlighted?
Tuwim’s feelings about his Jewishness were ambivalent and assumed a variety of forms. In a 1924 interview, the poet told Nasz Przegląd (no. 6): “I am a Polonized Jew, that is, a Jew-Pole, and I don’t care what people say about it. I was raised in Polish culture; instinctively, guided by a sincere impulse, I would say subconsciously, I have become attached with all my soul to Polishness.” He added that assimilation was the only logical solution to the Jewish question in Poland but the antisemitism poisoning Polish society caused him not to believe in it.
Does the meaning is that the solution(assimilation) that Julian Tuwim thought to be the only solution for the Jewish question was denied by him because Tuwim believed that the poisoning due to the Anti-Semitism didn't allow to solve the question?
I have a problem in understanding the sentence, because I think that there is a missing word(between antisemitism and Polish), does it need to be: But the anti-Semitism that was poisoning the Polish society caused him not to believe in it? It looks like there is no any verb.
Thank you.
Tuwim’s feelings about his Jewishness were ambivalent and assumed a variety of forms. In a 1924 interview, the poet told Nasz Przegląd (no. 6): “I am a Polonized Jew, that is, a Jew-Pole, and I don’t care what people say about it. I was raised in Polish culture; instinctively, guided by a sincere impulse, I would say subconsciously, I have become attached with all my soul to Polishness.” He added that assimilation was the only logical solution to the Jewish question in Poland but the antisemitism poisoning Polish society caused him not to believe in it.
Does the meaning is that the solution(assimilation) that Julian Tuwim thought to be the only solution for the Jewish question was denied by him because Tuwim believed that the poisoning due to the Anti-Semitism didn't allow to solve the question?
I have a problem in understanding the sentence, because I think that there is a missing word(between antisemitism and Polish), does it need to be: But the anti-Semitism that was poisoning the Polish society caused him not to believe in it? It looks like there is no any verb.
Thank you.
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