Post Tagged with: "Poland"

How I Survived Socialism: A Self-Help Guide for Worried Americans
2012 vol. 4 no. 1 — Spring / Features

How I Survived Socialism: A Self-Help Guide for Worried Americans

The regime was harsh, the system absurd but rules made up in Moscow were no match for the individualistic Poles. Magda Romanska’s delightful piece shows us how it was done. Elegantly, of course.

A Great American with a Polish Heart: General Edward L. Rowny
2012 vol. 4 no. 1 — Spring / Features

A Great American with a Polish Heart: General Edward L. Rowny

General Edward Rowny, at 96, continues his life of service to his own country while honoring the life and legacy of a great Pole, Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

The Death of Captain Pilecki and Dealing with the Communist Past
2012 vol. 4 no. 1 — Spring / Commentary / Features

The Death of Captain Pilecki and Dealing with the Communist Past

Poland’s magnificent non-violent revolution altered the course of history. Justice demands that this history be not forgotten.

The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture
2012 vol. 4 no. 1 — Spring / Books

The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture

Larry Wolff’s rich and engaging tale about Galicia and its four ethnic groups – Poles, Austrian Germans, Ruthenians and Jews – all of whom assigned a different meaning to the “idea” of Galicia. Reviewed by Lukasz Wodzynski.

Chopin: Prince of the Romantics
2012 vol. 4 no. 1 — Spring / Books / Music

Chopin: Prince of the Romantics

Historian Adam Zamoyski has updated his biography of Chopin, giving us a comprehensive portrait of the composer, the man, the patriot, and the lover. At once scholarly and sensitive.

Bogusław Schaeffer: Poland’s Renaissance Man
2011 Vol. 3 No. 4 — Winter / Features

Bogusław Schaeffer: Poland’s Renaissance Man

Pushing the boundaries for the past six decades, Bogusław Schaeffer was still blazing the way at the Edinburgh Fringe last year with “one of the best productions since the festival was launched several dozen years ago.” Magda Romanska profiles a Renaissance man.

Hacienda Santa Rosa: a Polish Refuge in Mexico
2011 Vol. 3 No. 4 — Winter / Features

Hacienda Santa Rosa: a Polish Refuge in Mexico

A harrowing 20-thousand kilometer odyssey ended with an unforgettable welcome in Mexico. Piotr Piwowarczyk, who is making a film about it, tells the story.

Be Not Afraid: The Polish (R)evolution, “Solidarity”
2011 Vol. 3 No. 4 — Winter / Books

Be Not Afraid: The Polish (R)evolution, “Solidarity”

Powerful, peaceful and quintessentially Polish: Solidarity. Canadian author Heather Kirk spotlights the many facets of a world-changing revolution that killed “precisely no one.”

Stefan Norblin: An Artist Comes Home
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Features

Stefan Norblin: An Artist Comes Home

The largest single collection of Polish art is not in Poland, but in India. A special exhibit brings it home, at least for a visit, attracting thousands of visitors to a visual feast.

Why This Silence?
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Commentary

Why This Silence?

The photo was unmistakably me, in Nehru shirt and bell bottoms, a cigarette dangling rakishly in my right hand… on the front page of Czechoslovakia’s Socialist Union of Youth newspaper.

Yes, Mr. President! *
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Commentary

Yes, Mr. President! *

(*President Poland, of course.)

Isabelle Sokolnicka’s optimism may be contagious…
all the more reason to read on.

Children in Exile: Recollections of Children Deported to the Soviet Gulag
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Films / Interviews

Children in Exile: Recollections of Children Deported to the Soviet Gulag

Chicago-based filmmaker Chris Swider discusses his award-winning documentary, and why he chose to focus on the youngest “enemies of the State.”

Lost Between Worlds
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Books

Lost Between Worlds

Exquisitely graceful prose and a powerful story make Edward Herzbaum’s journals read like a novel, a timeless telling of the years 1939-1945.