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Literary Criticism

Polonica

Szary-Matywiecka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024645322, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska's Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition, an international success upon its publication in 1816 that is now widely co...

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Culture Studies

Polonica

Necroperformance Cultural Reconstructions of the War Body

Sajewska Dorota

ISBN: PB: 9783035801910, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
448 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In "Necroperformance", Dorata Sajewska proposes an innovative perspective for looking back at the formative process of Polish modernity, delving into repressed areas of experience connected with World War I and the ensuing emancipatory movements. Und...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Materialism The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s

Stern Eliyahu

ISBN: HB: 9780300221800, Yale University Press, March 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

To understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the influence and affluence of American Jewry. Against the revol...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Liberation of the Camps The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Stone Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780300204575, Yale University Press, April 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet...

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Architecture

Polonica

Team 10 East Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism

Stanek Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364177033, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2014
250 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 70 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! This volume coins the term "Team 10 East" as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries – such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polonyi of Hungary, and Rado...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

With the Red Devils at Arnhem Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

Swiecicki Marek

ISBN: PB: 9781907677342, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2012
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 2 maps

The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Natalia Stachon Matter Shifted

Strauss Dorothea

ISBN: HB: 9783942405393, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from t...

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Polonica

Caviar and Ashes A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968

Shore Marci

ISBN: PB: 9780300143287, Yale University Press, March 2009
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

"In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska". Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin-de-siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemiansk...

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Polonica

Sketches from a Secret War A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine

Snyder Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300125993, Yale University Press, October 2007
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus., 6 maps

The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles – intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, li...

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Europe

Polonica

Reconstruction of Nations Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999

Snyder Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300105865, Yale University Press, September 2004
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 34 illus.

Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood o...

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