Isaac Deutscher was a Polish Marxist writer,journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs.
Tadeusz Peiper was a Polish poet,art critic,theoretician of literature and one of the precursors of the avant-garde movement in Polish poetry. Born to a Jewish family,Peiper converted to Catholicism as a young man and spent several years in Spain. He was a co-founder of the Awangarda krakowska group of writers.
Aleksander Wat was the pen name of Aleksander Chwat,a Polish poet,writer,art theoretician,memorist,and one of the precursors of the Polish futurism movement in the early 1920s,considered to be one of the more important Polish writers of the mid 20th century. In 1959,he emigrated to France and in 1963 relocated to the United States,where he worked at the Center for Slavic and East European Studies of the University of California,Berkeley.
Teresa Sławomira Torańska was a Polish journalist and writer. She was perhaps best known for her award winning monograph,Oni.
Gunnar Svante Paulsson is a Swedish-born Canadian historian,university lecturer,and author who has taught in Britain,Canada,Germany,and Italy. He specializes in history of The Holocaust and has been described as "an expert on that period". He is best known for his 2002 book,Secret City:The Hidden Jews of Warsaw 1940-1945.
The Heldt Prize is a literary award from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies named in honor of Barbara Heldt. The award has been given variously in the following categories:
Czerwony Sztandar was a Polish language daily newspaper,published by the Soviet occupation authorities in the city of Lwów,between 5 October 1939 and June 1941,and then again between 1944 and 1950. Its circulation was 40,000 copies daily and the publication contained Soviet propaganda against the Second Polish Republic,clergy and the defeated Polish state authorities. The editor of the newspaper was Jan Brzoza.
Jerzy Borejsza was a Polish communist activist and writer. During the Stalinist period of communist Poland,he was chief of a state press and publishing syndicate.
Do prostego człowieka is a poem by Julian Tuwim,first published in the October 27,1929 edition of Robotnik daily. The poem gained immediate popularity due to its strong pacifist anti-war message;its mockery of militarism,jingoistic fervour and hysteria;and its placement of blame upon those in power who profit by starting wars to be fought by commoners.
Twórczość is a Polish monthly literary journal,first published in 1945. Since 1 April 2000,Twórczość has been published by the state-funded Book Institute. It publishes poetry,fiction and literary criticism.
Nowe Widnokręgi was a Polish language magazine initially published monthly,later once every two weeks and served as the official organ of the communist Union of Soviet Writers. It was published from February till June 1941 in Soviet-occupied Lwów. Despite its orientation,it differed from the earlier publication Czerwony Sztandar,reflecting a more softened cultural policy of the Soviets vis-a-vis Polish culture.
Pod prąd was a Polish weekly Marxist newspaper published between 1934 and 1936,issued by dissidents from the Communist Party of Poland that turned against the Soviet Union. The newspaper was founded by Andrzej Stawar. The other main figure in the Pod prąd venture was Roman Jabłonowski. The newspaper was sold openly in the 1930s and wasn't confiscated.
Oblicze Dnia was a Polish weekly literary and political newspaper published from Warsaw. The periodical was launched in and published during 1936. It was directed towards the intelligentsia and was inspired by the Popular Front victories in Spain and France. For a short period of time,the publication attracted various prominent cultural figures. Collaborators of the newspaper included Adam Strug,Zofia Nałkowska,Maria Dąbrowska,Romain Rolland,Louis Aragon and Paul Langevin. The editors of the newspaper belonged to the Communist Party of Poland and the left-wing tendency of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS).
Nasz Przegląd was a Polish-Jewish newspaper with Zionist leanings. The newspaper was published between March 25,1923 and September 20,1939. Nasz Przegląd was the most well-known Polish-Jewish newspaper in interwar Poland. It was noted for its quality of writing and staunch Polish-Jewish stance. It was issued daily from Warsaw. The editorial team of Nasz Przegląd consisted of personalities that had been working with previous Polish-Jewish press outlets,Opinia Żydowska,Głos Żydowski and Dziennik Poranny.
The Czytelnik Publishing House is a publishing company in Poland. It was established in 1944 behind the Soviet front line as the Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik". As of now,it is the oldest post–World War II publisher in Poland. The word czytelnik means "reader" in Polish.
Andrzej Witos was a Polish politician,activist and younger brother of Wincenty Witos.
Glenn Davis Dynner is an American author and historian specializing in religion and history of East European Jewry. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Shofar:An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies and a Professor and Chair of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College.
Sketches from a Secret War:A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine is a 2005 book by Timothy Snyder. It focuses on the interwar history of the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Ukraine through the prism of the life of Henryk Józewski. Its conclusions consist partly of new research based on the archives of the Polish military.
MichałGłowiński was a Polish philologist,historian and literary theorist specializing in the history of Polish literature. Głowiński was a professor of humanities and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Głowiński was a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Member of the Collegium Invisibile.
Andrzej Stawar was a Polish Marxist writer and critic and translator. He was mainly active as an anti-Stalinist political activist,journalist and avant-garde proponent in arts during the interwar period. Towards the end of his life,he became an acclaimed Marxist literary critic in the Polish People's Republic despite never demonstrating loyalty to the PZPR. The publication critical of the Soviet-based political system abroad following his death became a major event.
