Poland As An Ally: WWII Photo Essay
From Norway to Africa, from Russia to the Atlantic, in the air and on the sea, the Polish forces were there for their allies. Justine Jablonska pays tribute to the bravest and most loyal men and women of WWII.
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2015 Vol. 7 No. 3 — Fall / Features
2015 Vol. 7 No. 3 — Fall / Features
On the Eve of Freedom
In a 1988 newscast, Stephanie Kraft heard the hejnał played from the tower of the Mariacki Church and learned that Poles had been doing so all through the communist era. Intrigued by these determined and stubborn people, she chose Poland as her destination for a journalist junket. She has returned every year since.
2015 Vol. 7 No. 1 — Spring / Music
Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera The Passenger: On Memory and Forgetting
Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera, The Passenger, is not only a complicated work of art, but a complicated work of historical trauma. Magda Romanska reviews the work with a brilliant survey that covers the opera, the history, the novel by Zofia Posmysz, the film by Andrzej Munk, and the responses to the production.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Features / Films
NEON
The Neon signs of the communist era were works of art, even though the product was never in stock. Eric Bednarski celebrates the art and the artists.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Features
A Warsaw Star in Tel Aviv: Fryderyk Járosy at “Li-La-Lo,” 1947-1948
Want an evening at a Polish cabaret? Go with Beth Holmgren. She knows everybody who is anybody – both in Warsaw and Tel Aviv – and will introduce you. Try the “Li-La-Lo” with that charming Hungarian Pole, Fryderyk Járosy, and beautiful Yemenite singer Shoshana Damari.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 1 — Winter-Spring / Features
One Summer as a Gallery Girl in Warsaw
Lara Szypszak, who got to know Lublin by studying there, got to know Warsaw by working there, at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art where the staff adopted her and introduced her to their extended family of galleries, performers and offbeat places to eat, party, or just sit around and talk.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 1 — Winter-Spring / Interviews
Sex and Gender, Tolerance and Fear: A Conversation
Justine Jablonska talks to University of Warsaw sexologist Dr. Zbigniew Izdebski about changing attitudes to sex and gender igniting a bizarre reaction in some circles to a foreign word they don’t understand.
2013 Vol. 5 No. 3 — Fall / Poetry
Salon Poezji
New York Times columnist David Orr once noted that while it’s impossible to know which country has the best writers, let alone the best poets… if cash money were on the line, you’d find few critics willing to bet against Poland. Now, the world’s best celebrate Polish American poets.
2013 Vol. 5 No. 1 — Spring / Features
Elegant Prewar Poland, Evoked by New Fonts from Graphic Artist Brendan Ciecko
During his brief stays in Warsaw and Kraków, American artist Brendan Ciecko came across interwar Polish typography – and that led him to discover the elegance and beauty of pre-WWII Poland. We can hardly wait for him to make these typefaces available to us.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Films
Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness – A Promise Fulfilled
Agnieszka Holland’s latest film is dedicated to Marek Edleman, the legendary leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and evokes passages of his book: “And there was love, too, in the ghetto…”
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Films
Polish Movie Nite presents Susannah Magers & In The Name of Their Mothers
Polish Movie Nite: Polish cinema, viewed and reviewed by Americans, leads them to a better understanding of “the complexities of contemporary Poland.”
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Features
Elegance, Minimalism, Flesh: CR loves Paweł Skurski
The artist’s work reveals “A fascination with woman and with questions about her nature and magnetism…”
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Features
Reconciling Past and Present in the Shadow of the Palace of Culture
Is there a parallel between Warsaw’s Soviet-built Palace and Poles’ relationship with their past?
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