A memory of Jerzy Toeplitz

Les Grandes figures historiques dans les lettres et les arts [en ligne], n° 6bis (2017), 2017

The article presents Jerzy Ficowski as a biographer of Bruno Schulz. Focusing on affective aspect of Ficowski's larger than life work, author of the article deals with three topics. Rapture is considered as a a basis for affective community of Schulz's readers/admirers. Expressions of sense of loss appears as a means of deepening the sense of preciousness. And frailty as a crucial feature of subject's portrait in Ficowski's approach elicits a kind of compassion for a subject too weak and too sensitive to live in the modern society of the first half of the 20th century.

2019

This article discusses the early life of Maksymilian Boruchowicz (1911–1987), a Jewish writer, publicist, and literary critic known in interwar Kraków, who changed his name to Michał Borwicz after the Second World War. Biographical information on his life before the outbreak of the war focuses mainly on his studies of Polish language and literature at the Jagiellonian University, where he was actively involved in student literary and cultural circles, as well as political journalism. During his studies and immediately thereafter, Borwicz published prolifically in various magazines and literary journals, and before the war published the novel Miłość i rasa (Love and Race), which was received positively by literary critics.

KOMUNIKATY MAZURSKO-WARMIŃSKIE vol. 4(306), 2019

Acta Poloniae Historica, 2019

History of Psychology, 2004

Josef Brožek is dear to all of us in history of psychology, as I am sure he is to those in biology. He knits together even members who have never attended Cheiron North America or Europe. He never forgot the lesson of his youth in Siberia, that the privilege of the few did not extend to all, and he sought to join us through a common history. Perhaps his experience of war gave him that compulsion to stitch together diverse peoples into projects ranging from lexicography to starvation. The remembrances gathered here signify a much wider geographical journey to his life. May we remember the music of his fiddle and his cello and the dance of eastern Europe as we peruse these heartfelt testimonials.

Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2001

QUO VADIS, Newsletter of the Kosciuszko Foundation Philadelphia Chapter, Special Edition, , 2019

2020

On 1 March 2020, Professor Andrzej Wasilkowski died. In his research, Professor Wasilkowski undertook issues which were co-creating the mainstreams of legal debates all over the world. He was an author of valuable publications on the relationship between international law and Polish domestic law. Professor Wasilkowski was also a director of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the head of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

European Journal of American Studies, 2023

is a Polish American poet and fiction writer, whose writing has appeared in Rattle, Ontario Review, North American Review, and other journals in the US and abroad. His recent memoir Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded (2016), which won the Eric Hoffer Award for most thought-provoking book in 2017, comprises poems and personal essays about his parents' experiences as slave laborers in Nazi Germany. He is also the author of the Hank and Marvin mystery novels and a columnist for the Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the oldest Polish newspaper in the USA. Guzlowski's most recent books of poems are Small Talk (2022), Mad Monk Ikkyu (2021), and True Confessions (2019). His novel Retreat: A Love Story (2021) is an account of two German lovers separated by war. John Guzlowski sat down with Izabella Kimak to talk about his literary career and the impact that his experience as a 1.5-generation immigrant has had on his writing. Guzlowski was brought to the United States in 1951 by his Displaced Persons parents and grew up in the area of Humboldt Park in Chicago, the setting of his Hank and Marvin mystery novels. Izabella Kimak: I want to start with the basics, that is your self-identification. In many minority literatures there have been discussions about how authors identify themselves or how they should identify themselves. Do you consider yourself a Polish American writer, an American writer, or perhaps just a writer? John Guzlowski: It's an interesting question. I have a friend who lives in Vancouver, Canada, and I sent him a piece this morning that I had written for somebody else about being a Polish American writer. He asked why I consider myself a Polish American writer. Why shouldn't I just consider myself an American writer? And I've been thinking about it this morning. I never started out to be a Polish American writer. When I first started thinking about writing and wanting to write, what I wanted to

2019

Artur Lilien-Brzozdowiecki and His Reminiscences A rtur Lilien-Brzozdowiecki (1890, Lwów-1958, London) belongs to those people who left their home city of Lwów, but kept on returning there in their thoughts. Lilien's life, like the existence of his native city, was shaken by two world wars. Before 1914, in Lilien's formative years, Lwów was a prosperous metropolis of Galicia, which bordered on the Russian Empire. It was a home to multiple religious and ethnic groups whose wellbeing rested on a sophisticated equilibrium, in which diverse economic, confessional, and political interests were balanced. By birth, Lilien belonged to the Jewish community, to its locally rooted, profoundly assimilated, educated, and wealthy elite. His ancestors played an outstanding role in shaping that precious culture of coexistence, in bringing to terms financial, communal, and political forces operating in the local, provincial, and national arenas. He belonged to a family that promoted Polish autonomy in Habsburg Galicia. Teenage Lilien participated in a radical circle striving to achieve the independence of Poland. As an officer, at the personal request of the future president Józef Piłsudski, Lilien pioneered in training Polish legionnaires in 1912 and thus laid the foundations for the artillery corps of the future Polish state. A lawyer and financier in peaceful times, during the First World War he served in the Austro-Hungarian army, returning to Lwów on its disbandment in 1918. Soon he witnessed an atrocity unthinkable under the "ancient regime": a bloody pogrom mounted by victorious Polish soldiers in Jewish quarters of his city. Those scenes bitterly challenged ix Preface : Artur Lilien-Brzozdowiecki and His Reminiscences Lilien's Polish patriotism, overshadowing his interwar life. Moreover, his inherited skills and acquired experience were no longer required as a new center of power was consolidating in Warsaw and a new elite had developed a new style of doing things, unrelated to that mastered between Lwów and Vienna. Although Lilien often felt himself an undesired stranger in his city and country, he joined the Polish Army as a lieutenant in the reserves. He also served the Second Republic as a diplomat, was able to share his political views in the press, and managed his family business. At the outbreak of World War II, when Lwów was surrounded by Nazi and Soviet troops in autumn of 1939, Lilien left the city with a unit of the Polish Army-as it turned out, forever. He escaped the destiny of those Polish officers whom Soviet persecutors shot dead in Katyń, and he escaped the Holocaust that annihilated the Jewish community of Lwów. Lilien crossed the Romanian border, made his way to Cyprus, and was engaged by the British Military Mission in the Middle East. In 1944 he became an officer of the British Staff in Cairo. There he typed his reminiscences, a document of personal and family memories and his meditations on those cruel times when the old orders fell apart to give way to a new, yet unknown, world order. Lilien invites his future reader, his newborn granddaughter Kasieńka, 1 to encounter her family, generations of Polish Jewry: merchants, lease-holders, bankers, industrialists, politicians, communal leaders, army officers, scholars, physicians, artists, and art collectors. They dwell in a broader Jewish and Christian world of deeds and ideas, integrated into the national life of the Old Commonwealth, the Habsburg Empire, and the Second Polish Republic. They serve their community as elders and philanthropists, as founders of synagogues and charities. They love and protect their family and care about their downtown house and summer villa. They-gentlemen and ladies-are devoted professionals and great hobbyists, fascinated with arts and sports. Through the present publication, the reader will enjoy reminiscences of this worthy life, narrated with great talent and decency, with many 1 Kasieńka is an endearing diminutive of Kasia (Cathy).