Absent Presence: Virginia Woolf and British Polish Jewish Publishing Networks

abstract: This article reconstructs Virginia Woolf’s early reception in Poland and British Polish Jewish publishing networks in the years 1929–1940. Contributing to the scholarship on the global impact of Woolf and the Hogarth Press, it illuminates a significant though neglected aspect of modernist print culture: the endeavors of Polish Jewish publishing houses Rój and J. Przeworski that circulated modernist literature and aesthetics in Central Europe and—via J. Przeworski’s London branch—in the UK. Drawing on extensive archival research in the UK and Poland, this article offers important insights into cultural, political, and economic factors that facilitated and hindered the transfer of modernism.