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Book Synopsis Journey to Poland by : Alfred Döblin
Download or read book Journey to Poland written by Alfred Döblin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinated by the nature of the Jewish identity, Doeblin, the author of Berlin Alexanderplatz, a non-practising Jew in Berlin in the 1920s, decided to visit Poland to try to discover his Jewish roots. This book is a record of that journey.
Book Synopsis Journey to Poland by : Maurizio Cinquegrani
Download or read book Journey to Poland written by Maurizio Cinquegrani and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature
Book Synopsis A Country In The Moon by : Michael Moran
Download or read book A Country In The Moon written by Michael Moran and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this uproarious memoir and meticulously researched cultural journey, writer Michael Moran keeps company with a gallery of fantastic characters. In chronicling the resurrection of the nation from war and the Holocaust, he paints a portrait of the unknown Poland, one of monumental castles, primeval forests and, of course, the Poles themselves. This captivating journey into the heart of a country is a timely and brilliant celebration of a valiant and richly cultured people.
Book Synopsis Jewish Poland Revisited by : Erica T. Lehrer
Download or read book Jewish Poland Revisited written by Erica T. Lehrer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Jewish Book Award Finalist: “A fresh and delightful portrait of Jewish renewal in Poland . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice Since the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn about their own Polish roots and connect with contemporary Poles. For their part, a growing number of Poles are fascinated by all things Jewish. In this book, Erica T. Lehrer explores the intersection of Polish and Jewish memory projects in the historically Jewish neighborhood of Kazimierz in Krakow. Her own journey becomes part of the story as she demonstrates that Jews and Poles use spaces, institutions, interpersonal exchanges, and cultural representations to make sense of their historical inheritances.
Book Synopsis The Essential Guide to Being Polish by : Anna Spysz
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Being Polish written by Anna Spysz and published by New Europe Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter -- and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore, and customs, there is no single, comprehensive, reader-friendly and yet ever-informative reference on what it means to be Polish. Enter The Essential Guide to Being Polish -- the go-to concise resource for anyone looking to reconnect with their culture or, indeed, hoping that their friends, children, or colleagues learn something about their heritage. Divided into three sections to make for an easy-to-follow format -- Poland in Context, Poles in Poland, and Poles Abroad -- this guide covers just about everything and does so in a style that is at once entertaining and informative: the country's history and geography, wars, Jews in Poland, the communist past, the post-communist past and present, language, kings and queens, religion/Catholicism (with special focus on Pope John Paul II), holidays, food, and drink. What is a real Polish wedding all about? That, too, is addressed succinctly and with flair in this guide. Other chapters cover literature, music, art, famous scientists, Polish men and Polish women, Poles in America, Poles in the UK, Poles and the EU, and last but not least, Polish pride. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Book Synopsis Three Minutes in Poland by : Glenn Kurtz
Download or read book Three Minutes in Poland written by Glenn Kurtz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author's search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather's 1938 home movie. Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage would become a memorial to an entire community--an entire culture--that was annihilated in the Holocaust. Three Minutes in Poland traces Glenn Kurtz's remarkable four-year journey to identify the people in his grandfather's haunting images. His search takes him across the United States; to Canada, England, Poland, and Israel; to archives, film preservation laboratories, and an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield. Ultimately, Kurtz locates seven living survivors from this lost town, including an eighty-six-year-old man who appears in the film as a thirteen-year-old boy. Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts, Three Minutes in Poland tells the rich, funny, harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven survivors and their Polish hometown. Originally a travel souvenir, David Kurtz's home movie became the sole remaining record of a vibrant town on the brink of catastrophe. From this brief film, Glenn Kurtz creates a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival--a monument to a lost world"--
Book Synopsis Destiny's Journey by : Alfred Döblin
Download or read book Destiny's Journey written by Alfred Döblin and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny's Journey is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that Döblin kept from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information in the spring of 1940 and partly written without notes in Los Angeles where he took refuge during the Second World War. It tells the personal and generational story of the flight of Jewish and anti-Nazi intellectuals from Europe to America, their fear and frustration, isolation, and inability to work. Döblin’s story differs from that of other Jewish intellectuals and artists in that his family converts to Catholicism in Los Angeles. Unlike most of them, he returns to Europe as an officer with the French forces and works on denazifying German literature. The conversion narrative bridges the departure from and return to Europe. To critic John Simon, “the latter part of the book often reads like a shrill piece of Christian homiletics. But even this is not without interest, as it traces the transformation of an anarchic outsider into a dogmatic insider.” “The first part of ‘Destiny's Journey’ [about] Döblin's departure from Paris [in] 1940... is magisterial: acidly observed, saturated in telling detail, grimly comic and harrowing... with an exemplary introduction by Peter Demetz... an important, nourishing book” — John Simon, The New York Times
Book Synopsis Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark by : William Coxe
Download or read book Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poland written by Meish Goldish and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful. Friendly. Fascinating. Welcome to Poland! In this bright, exciting book, young readers will travel to this amazing country without ever leaving their homes or classrooms. During their journey, they will learn all about Poland’s cities, food, holidays, music, and wildlife. They’ll even learn how to speak a few words in Polish! This 32-page book features controlled text with age appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The engaging text, bold design, and stunning photos are sure to capture children’s interest.
Book Synopsis Triumph and Tragedy by : Joel Padowitz
Download or read book Triumph and Tragedy written by Joel Padowitz and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews today tend to associate Poland exclusively with the horrors of the Holocaust. Poland has been called the world s biggest graveyard, because on its soil was where most of the systematic murder of our people during World War II took place. However, it is very shortsighted to view Poland as little more than the darkest corner of Europe into which the Nazis concentrated the Jews before exterminating them.Jews have lived in Poland for over a thousand years. In fact, for centuries, Poland was the most Jew-friendly state in Europe. Countless thousands of persecuted Jews throughout Christian Europe found refuge in Poland. For hundreds of years, Poland was the largest, most significant, most intellectually vibrant Jewish community in all of Europe. In fact, at its peak in the 17th century, the majority of the world s Jews lived in Poland, a land referred to in Latin as, paradisus Iudaeorum: Jewish paradise.JRoots, based in London, was created to empower today s generation of Jews to meaningfully connect with their past through transformational travel and multi-media experiences. JRoots has inspired thousands on its signature trip to Poland. Walking the streets our forebears walked, praying where they prayed, singing where they sang, dancing where they danced touches the soul in a lasting way no book or movie ever could. By weaving a tapestry of life and death made real by the places they visit and the personalities they meet, the trips provide a sense of Jewish context and pride, ensuring participants focus on their commitment to a better tomorrow rather than despair over the tragedies of yesteryear. JRoots produced this guidebook for their own participants as a supplement to be read before, during, and after their trip, to help make their personal journey as meaningful as it could be. It is now available to anyone, in the hope that it will enhance the significance of your own Poland experience, so that you too will return home more deeply motivated to invest in the Jewish people and our future.
Author :Magdalena Grzebalkowska Publisher :Russian and East European Stud ISBN 13 :9780822945994 Total Pages :336 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (459 download)
Book Synopsis Poland 1945 by : Magdalena Grzebalkowska
Download or read book Poland 1945 written by Magdalena Grzebalkowska and published by Russian and East European Stud. This book was released on 2020 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official end of World War II did not mean the end of the torments inflicted on civilians. This book brings us vivid personal accounts of ordinary people in Poland--Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and others--caught up in the most violent war in history and its aftermath. No place experienced more intense suffering for a longer period of time than Poland--the first country to be invaded by both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and the last to be "liberated". This is the story of how people survived the flames of war, and began to clear the rubble and try to rebuild their lives, from January to December 1945.
Download or read book Zofia written by Dolores Danek and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year, 1904-1905. The country, impoverished, Russian-ruled Poland. In these few life-altering months, a fifteen-year-old peasant girl named Zofia will run from her small farming village to a new promised land. Driven by a will to be free and a determination to escape the iron fist of the Russian Empire, Zofia devises a plan to get herself to America, where she has heard the streets are paved in gold. She finagles a marriage to a stranger, but is unable to obtain the necessary papers to leave the country. Undaunted, she leaves home on the eve of Ash Wednesday, and barely escapes being shot by Russian soldiers.
Book Synopsis From Warsaw with Love by : John Pomfret
Download or read book From Warsaw with Love written by John Pomfret and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Warsaw with Love is the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War, told by the award-winning author John Pomfret. Spanning decades and continents, from the battlefields of the Balkans to secret nuclear research labs in Iran and embassy grounds in North Korea, this saga begins in 1990. As the United States cobbles together a coalition to undo Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, six US officers are trapped in Iraq with intelligence that could ruin Operation Desert Storm if it is obtained by the brutal Iraqi dictator. Desperate, the CIA asks Poland, a longtime Cold War foe famed for its excellent spies, for help. Just months after the Polish people voted in their first democratic election since the 1930s, the young Solidarity government in Warsaw sends a veteran ex-Communist spy who’d battled the West for decades to rescue the six Americans. John Pomfret’s gripping account of the 1990 cliffhanger in Iraq is just the beginning of the tale about intelligence cooperation between Poland and the United States, cooperation that one CIA director would later describe as “one of the two foremost intelligence relationships that the United States has ever had.” Pomfret uncovers new details about the CIA’s black site program that held suspected terrorists in Poland after 9/11 as well as the role of Polish spies in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. In the tradition of the most memorable works on espionage, Pomfret’s book tells a distressing and disquieting tale of moral ambiguity in which right and wrong, black and white, are not conveniently distinguishable. As the United States teeters on the edge of a new cold war with Russia and China, Pomfret explores how these little-known events serve as a reminder of the importance of alliances in a dangerous world.
Download or read book Finding Poland written by Matthew Kelly and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey stretching from Siberia to Pakistan, and beyond. Their male relatives endured a parallel journey; arrested, exiled, and held as prisoners of war. Countless numbers were summarily executed by the Red Army. They saw the steppe, they were put to work in labour camps, they built sections of the trans-Siberian railway, they cleared forests, they toiled on collective farms. They knew hunger, exhaustion, disease and death. Persecuted by the Soviet Union, Poland was to become its unexpected ally following the German invasion in 1941. A new Polish army, 'The Anders Army' was assembled in Palestine. For a brief moment, in Kazakhstan, families were reunited, before being evacuated; to India, to Britain, to Mexico and East Africa; and from there, across the world. The experiences of these Poles had consequences far reaching and enduring, both to Poland, to Polish identity, and to the families that survived; reverberating through generations. These incredible stories remain largely untold. In Finding Poland Matthew Kelly embarks on a journey through his ancestor's footsteps, travelling through places they lived, and landscapes they survived, to provide an account of these extraordinary people and their unique history. Part memoir, history and travel book, it is also a profound meditation on the experience of displacement and exile, of the impact of such seismic disruption, and the deep legacies such trauma bequeaths.
Book Synopsis A Doctor's Journey by : Lois Gayle Chance
Download or read book A Doctor's Journey written by Lois Gayle Chance and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarship to the czar's medical school was fifteen-year-old Alexander Kowal's escape from life as a peasant, farming the land of his ancestors. But the quiet life he envisioned as a doctor ended when powerful political forces plunged Russia and Europe into war and revolution. Alexander's fate was at the whim of those in charge at the moment who were flexing power - the czar, the German Nazis, the Russian Bolsheviks, or the partisan underground army - each in turn held his life in their hands. Yet even while tending to a Bolshevik commandant's child, knowing his own life might depend on her survival, or hiding from the Nazis, Alexander never gave up hope for a better future for himself and his family. This historical biography of Alexander Kowal's life is a story of courage, tenacity, and hope.
Book Synopsis 100 Moments Poland by : Christopher Skutela, PH D
Download or read book 100 Moments Poland written by Christopher Skutela, PH D and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Do you want to know why Poland may be called "the Heart of Europe?" * Do you want precious hints and suggestions for What to see? But also, Why? and How? * Do you want access to unique reflections and experiences concerning Poland? * Do you want the key to Polish culture and mentality? * Do you want to enjoy a deeper comprehension of travel itself? * Do you want to see meaningful pictures and read poetic travel impressions? * Do you want to travel with your heart and mind open and always with a smile on your face? Enjoy new discoveries in this not-typical virtual travel guide through Poland and Polishness! Christopher Skutela, Ph.D., is a Doctor of Philosophy of Travel and well-known, highly-awarded Private Guide. For the last 15 years, he has built his travel company PrivateToursKrakow.com based in Poland. Christopher has guided many VIPs, politicians, actors, directors, professors, owners of global companies, and visitors from all over the world. Plentiful and memorable dialogues became the source of many reflections presented in this book. Additionally, Christopher has travelled to many countries across four continents, meandering through the history and cultures of the world, and contemplating contemporary problems, senses and values. All of this and more is reflected in the book "100 Moments," an intimate and very interesting focus and look at Poland. In an easy-to-read, short travel essays, enriched with beautiful and meaningful pictures, Christopher speaks of places, people, situations, events, customs, traditions, trends, styles, and expectations that you can observe and develop a relationship with while travelling. You will learn about Polish history, culture, nature, religion, politics, society and economy in a very condensed and to-the-point form. At the same time, you will gain access to deeper reflections and questions about very important issues facing Poland, Central Europe, and ourselves. As a man of travel, lecturer, guide, practical and pragmatic tour operator and businessman, as a philosopher and poet, Christopher combines down-to-earth suggestions with ideas and ideals for enhancing your travel experience and the excitement of discovery. Finally, while reading this book, together, we may partake in an intellectual and very joyful journey cultivating deeper comprehension of Where we are and Who we are. You are always most welcomed! And I look forward to meeting you!Christopher Skutela
Book Synopsis Dawdling by the Danube by : Edward Enfield
Download or read book Dawdling by the Danube written by Edward Enfield and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Enfield sets off on a cycling trip through Bavaria, Poland and on to the pleasant banks of the Danube, taking in castles and baroque churches and sampling splendid wine en route. Carrying few preconceptions but plenty of wit, Edward reveals there is no place from which to see a country that is nearly as good as the saddle of a bicycle.
