Poet Kath Abela Wilson once wrote about “How I Fell In Love with Chopin.” This poem was written for the Paderewski-Chopin conference at Loyola University, Nov. 12, 2010 and read while accompanied by mathematician and flutist, Rick Wilson.
Their story is told in Path to Glory, a film that will premiere in the US in April and in Poland in August. Justine Jablonska interviews directors Jen Miller and Sophie Pegrum.
The history of the Polish-Arabian horse is complex and fascinating. Here’s a very brief snapshot.
If you can’t say it, and you can’t spell it, can you remember it?
In 1918, the noted Polish mathematician, Zygmunt Janiszewski argued that Poland’s existence would continue through the ideas of talented Polish mathematicians. Joseph Pomianowski agrees, noting that Janiszewski’s Fundamenta Mathematicae contributed both to mathematics and to the revival of Polish national culture.
There are many motives behind this race to the center of the Earth: money; energy independence; and even the fame that comes with pushing technological limits further. In themselves they are not evil, but where do these pursuits end – and where does the threshold of Inferno begin?
This May, Pope John Paul II will be beatified, following the recognition of his first miracle. The month of May also marks the 14th anniversary of the pastoral visit of the Pope to Lebanon – a country whose religious diversity dragged it into a bloody and destructive civil war that lasted fifteen years.
While Poland fought a war with both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Hollywood launched its own propaganda war – on the side of Stalin. Piotr Wrobel reviews a remarkable study of some very nasty realpolitik.
Aquila Polonica’s beautiful new edition of the 1942 classic is attracting attention not only as a “real time” tour de force, but it’s filling a great need. No less a magazine than the Atlantic Monthly, or Flying Magazine for that matter, wonder why they never knew about these heroic Polish airmen.
The Yale historian’s new book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, is about the 14 million civilian deaths in the area between Berlin and Moscow at the hands of Hitler and Stalin in the space of 12 years. Western historians have been silent on this subject for far too long.
A new book from Ohio University Press presents a much-needed survey and appreciation of Poland’s deep-rooted democratic traditions.
In Siberia, nature transcended Gulag; the earth and the sky were eternal while the Soviet regime, with its warped theories and senseless cruelties, was transitory. “We regarded them as a transient evil, a physical, brutal power which must sooner or later wither away.”
• The Peasant Prince
• In the Name of Their Mothers
• Katyn: The Untold Story Of Stalin’s Polish Massacre
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