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Cyprian Norwid, born in 1821 near Warsaw, is one of the most innovative and idiosyncratic figures in Polish literature. His unique poetry is now recognized as among Poland’s finest. Adam Czerniawski’s...
Possessed By Ghosts
Exorcisms in the 21 Century
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Reviewed by Martina Bexte Wanda Pratnicka claims that since her birth in Poland in 1948, she has 'seen and sensed things that have gone virtually unnoticed by everyone around her', and that she w...
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Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter
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Translated from the Hebrew and edited by Barbara Harshav "In the first three days [of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising], the Germans didn't take a single Jew out of the buildings. After their attempts...
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The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
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The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick) Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to mo...
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Towers of Stone
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Translated by Soren A. Gauger In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a h...
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A Concise History of Poland
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Poland only sporadically makes the headlines of the Anglo-Saxon world, and its history remains comparatively unknown. It has suffered the dubious distinction of being wiped off the political map in 17...
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The Battle for Warsaw
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"One of the most savage indictments...ever leveled by a historian." —Carlo D' Este, The New York Times Book Review One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II was the doomed Wa...
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Collateral Damage
Social Inequalities in a Global Age
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The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but neverthele...
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