Former U.S. Ambassador: Poles Have a Basic Love of Liberty
Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe was the keynote speaker at the Poland in the Rockies 2010 official banquet, & spoke about the history & future of Poland.
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2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Commentary
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Commentary
Poland in the Rockies 2010: Victor Ashe, Alex Storozynski and more
The 4th edition of the biennial Poland in the Rockies (PitR) symposium in Polish Studies, held in Canmore, Canada, hosted a dozen speakers & 40 students – incl. former US ambassador Victor Ashe & President of Kosciuszko Foundation Alex Storozynski.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Features
Kresy: First the Forest
For centuries, the biodiversity of the great forest of Poland’s eastern borderlands was the natural habitat for a diversity of cultures.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Films
CR Recommends Four Grand Documentaries
• Children in Exile
• Modjeska, Woman Triumphant
• Nine Days That Changed the World
• The Soviet Story
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Books
Books In Brief – Summer 2010
• Code Name: Żegota: Rescuing Jews in Occupied Poland, 1942-1945: The Most Dangerous Conspiracy in Wartime Europe
• Warsaw Spring
• A Hint of Rain
• Quiet Hero
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Commentary
Poland’s Best Winter Olympic Games Ever, but…
Congratulations to Vancouver Olympic winners Justyna Kowalczyk and Adam Małysz, but… do two athletes make a team?
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Books
Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter
She was, it appears, a rather difficult child, always willful, sometimes disobedient and frequently unpredictable…
2009 — Winter / Features
The Noble and Compassionate Heart of the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhi
Between August 1942 and November 1946, close to 1,000 Polish children and their guardians lived in idyllic settlements on the Kathiawar Peninsula in India not far from the summer residence of the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhi. They had come at the Maharaja’s invitation from orphanages in Ashkabad, the capital of Turkmenistan, and Samarkand.
2009 — Winter / Books
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt: War Through a Woman’s Eyes, 1939-1940
Anyone who’s ever read memoirs written during or immediately after the war knows how very different they are from those written many years later. The writing is vivid, unembellished, adrenalin charged. Memories have not yet faded, been tampered with. There is no editorializing. War is an experience unlike any other. Nobody comes out of it unchanged. When these experiences are recorded by gifted writers – and Rulka Langer certainly was that — they are at once harrowing, inspiring and breathtaking.
2009 — Winter / Books
The Black Madonna of Derby
An interview with Joanna Czechowska in The Guardian sparked CR’s instant interest in her book, The Black Madonna of Derby. Although her mother was English, Czechowska was raised in her father’s Polish community, complete with Saturday schools, scout groups and dances in the Polish Hall. Since her mother worked, Czechowska was raised by her adored and adoring Polish grandmother, who spoke several languages but none of them English.
2009 — Winter / Books
The Polish Review Vol. LIV 2009 no. 2
Someone once joked that the best thing about reading Reviews is that you can discuss the books at dinner parties without actually having to read them. Well, if you read the very best of the Reviews there is an element of truth in that, though do bear in mind that not all Reviews are created equal.
2009 — Summer / Features
Reminiscences: Fathers, Socks and “Figi”
I recently reminisced about my son’s visit to England when he was eighteen. He took his bike with him and had his itinerary well planned. It included a trip to Hatherleigh, a little town in Devon where my family spent a year when my parents were reunited after their long wartime separation.
2009 — Summer / Books
Katyń: A Crime Without Punishment
Katyń: A Crime Without Punishment is the latest volume in “The Annals of Communism” series published by Yale University Press. Rightly described as the most important publishing project currently in progress in the United States, it documents the 70-year reign of terror that began with the Communist revolution in Russia and has been largely ignored by western intellectuals – when not actively indulged by them.
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