Poland in the Rockies: Looking back
Poland in the Rockies? Yes, and from there to wherever English-speaking Poles live, via Cosmopolitan Review.
Commentary
2017 Vol. 9 No. 1—Spring / Commentary
2016 Vol. 8 No. 1—Winter / Commentary
The Polish Response to the Holocaust: A Discussion
CR takes this opportunity to publish a letter written by Eli Rubenstein, the Canadian Director of the March of the Living and an award-winning educator, to the JTA (Jewish Telegraph Agency) concerning its Dec. 11th article about Polish rescue efforts of Jews during WWII, followed by our own comments.
2016 Vol. 8 No. 1—Winter / Commentary
England Dotty
The unflappable, ever courteous Jonathan Lipman was living a life filled with friendship and laughter. Suddenly his daughter asked her mother not to speak Polish in public. You never know where a populist’s hatred will strike next.
2016 Vol. 8 No. 2—Spring / Commentary
Beyond the Ulmas: The Need for a Social History of Genocide in Occupied Poland
Commemorations hold a special place in national memory; historians have an obligation to protect the emerging social history from being eclipsed. Tom Frydel explains.
2016 Vol. 8 No. 2—Spring / Commentary
Poland’s Democracy
Wanda Koscia’s documentary about the uprising, The Battle for Warsaw, was about a fight for freedom and democracy. The filmmaker now casts a worried eye at Poland’s democracy.
Commentary
1905, A Very Good Year
For anyone who missed the grand party at the Metropolitan Opera on May 2, 1905, here is a report from Lynn Ludlow and Maureen Mroczek Morris, who know everybody who is anybody in Polish California.
2015 Vol. 7 No. 3 — Fall / Commentary
Potsdam and Poland
Loss of territory, no reparations from Germany, a dictatorship imposed from abroad, and no safe return for Polish veterans and wartime exiles. In Washington, London and Moscow power and duplicity ruled; honor and integrity collapsed. M.B.B. Biskupski comments.
2015 Vol. 7 No. 1 — Spring / Commentary / Features
February 1940: Exile, Odyssey, Redemption
When the Soviets deported Polish citizens from their zone of occupied Poland, the Poles began a journey that would cover several continents and oceans. Among the most amazing is the saga of the children’s odyssey.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Commentary
Looking Back, Fondly and Proudly
It’s a year of anniversaries, all of them commemorated not only by the Republic, but Poles everywhere. Andrew Nagorski has had a front row seat observing Poland’s successes, and shares his personal reflections.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Books / Commentary
The Passion of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
Compared to Keats, Marcel Proust, and even to “Bob Dylan, William Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda and James Dean rolled into one,” Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński was passionate, erotic, heroic, idealistic and incomparably prolific. His life and his art were one, his death made him legend.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Commentary
Canada’s First State Visit to Poland: Promoting Business; Remembering a Shared History
Martin Grzadka is a pragmatic, successful businessman who loves to promote Canada-Poland business. But when he writes about his feelings when the national anthems of his native land and his adopted country were played in the presence of the two countries’ heads of state, well you can almost hear the heartbeats.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 1 — Winter-Spring / Commentary
When Compromise is a Good Thing
Solidarity brought around a change of power through compromise and a gradual – non-violent – transition. Anna Mazurkiewicz discusses the greatest compromise of modern time and a great model for our troubled times.
2013 Vol. 5 No. 3 — Fall / Commentary
Green Polish Capital Hosting What Could Still Be a Successful UN Climate Conference
Warsaw, a “green capital”? Indeed, says, Adam Sulkowski, reporting in from the 2013 COP19 Climate Summit in Poland’s vibrant, thriving and – yes, ever greener – capital.
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