Justice behind the Iron Curtain Finder, Gabriel N; Prusin, Alexander Victor
Justice behind the Iron Curtain,
2018, 2018, 2018-11-21, 2018-11-23
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In Justice Behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland's role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder ...and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response to postwar Polish society and Poles' cravings for vengeance against German Nazis. Although characterized by numerous inconsistencies, Poland's prosecutions of Nazis exhibited a fair degree of due process and resembled similar proceedings in Western democratic counties. The authors examine reactions to the trials among Poles and Jews. Although Polish-Jewish relations were uneasy in the wake of the extremely brutal German wartime occupation of Poland, postwar Polish prosecutions of German Nazis placed emphasis on the fate of Jews during the Holocaust. Justice Behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to approach communist Poland's judicial postwar confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation.
Seminar sta organizirala Oddelek za poljsko filologijo in aplikativno jezikoslovje, Oddelek za zgodovino in mednarodne odnose ter Oddelek za druzbene vede in var- nost, kar kaze, da tema ni bila ...razumljena samo kot zgodovinski pojav, ampak bolj kot aktualno vprasanje mednarodne politike in politologije. Iz cele vrste referatov, ki so jih med drugimi pripravili Zofia Chyra-Rolicz, Iskra Curkina (Ruska akade- mija znanosti), Stanislaw Wiech, Borche Nikolov (Makedonija), Danuta Szymonik, Roman Mnich, Ljudmila Mnich, Malgorzata Ocytko, Henryk Sloczyñski, Lucyna Wisniewska-Rutkowska, Tomasz Derlatka (Leipzig), pa tudi avtor pricujocega poro- cila, je bilo razvidno, da je dvoumen predvsem sam pojem »panslavizem«.
As a writer, critic, and philosopher, StanisÊaw Brzozowski (1878–1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. He absorbed virtually all topical intellectual trends of his time, adapting them for ...the needs of what he saw as his primary mission: the modernization of Polish culture. The essays of the volume reassess and contextualize Brzozowski's writings from a distinctly transnational vantage point. They shed light on often surprising and hitherto underrated affinities between Brzozowski and intellectual figures and movements in Eastern and Western Europe. Furthermore, they explore the presence of his ideas in twentieth-century century literary criticism and theory.
Using hitherto unexplored archival sources, memoirs, interviews, and materials from the vibrant interwar Jewish and Polish presses, Kalman Weiser investigates the rise and fall of Yiddishism and of ...Prylucki's political party in the post-World War I era.
Das Lexikon des polnischen Adels im Goldenen Zeitalter 1500-1600 beinhaltet 120 Biogramme der bedeutendsten Vertreter des Adels in Polen im 16. Jahrhundert. Jedes der Biogramme ist mit einer ...einführenden Literaturliste ergänzt. Für Osteuropahistoriker ist das Buch eine ,,Goldgrube" für die Zeit des ,,Goldenen Zeitalters" in Polen. Man findet dort nicht nur biografische Daten, sondern auch Informationen über die Genealogie, Wappenkunde, religiöse Ansichten, Kunst und Kultur und nicht zuletzt eine besondere geografische Komponente mit einer genauen Erklärung der Lage der im Buch beschriebenen Orte und Provinzen. Die beigefügten Tabellen, eine Karte der Rzeczpospolita und einige Abbildungen der adeligen Schlösser sowie der Familienwappen ergänzen das ungewöhnlich reichhaltige Buch - ein Lexikon, das (nicht nur) für jeden Osteuropahistoriker eine handliche und praktische Hilfe darstellt. The "Lexikon des polnischen Adels 1500-1600" contains 120 biographies of the most famous Polish Noblemen in the "Polish Golden Age". The biographies are completed with further introductory literature. The book contains not only the life history of the Noblemen but also a large amount of information about polish genealogy, polish culture and also geographical data of the Polish Commonwealth "Rzeczpospolita". The Lexicon is a very useful book for each historian who is interested in Early Modern Studies.
The role of Western NGOs in the transition of postcommunist nations to democracy has been well documented. In this study, Paulina Pospieszna follows a different trajectory, examining the role of a ...former aid recipient (Poland), newly democratic itself, and its efforts to aid democratic transitions in the neighboring states of Belarus and Ukraine.Belarus is widely regarded as the most authoritarian state in the region, while Ukraine is witnessing a slow, if often troubled, democratic consolidation. Each state presents a different set of challenges to outside agencies. As Pospieszna shows, Poland is uniquely positioned to offer effective counsel on the transition to democracy. With similarities of language and culture, and a shared history, combined with strong civic activism and success within the European Union, Poland's regional policies have successfully combined its need for security and a motivation to spread democracy as primary concerns. Pospieszna details the founding, internal workings, goals, and methods of Poland's aid programs. She then compares the relative degrees of success of each in Belarus and Ukraine and documents the work yet to be done.As her theoretical basis, Pospieszna analyzes current thinking on the methods and effectiveness of NGOs in transitions to democracy, particularly U.S.- and European-led aid efforts. She then views the applicability of these methods to the case of Poland and its aid recipients. Overwhelmingly, Pospieszna finds the greatest success in developmental programs targeting civil society-workers, intellectuals, teachers, students, and other NGO actors.Through extensive interviews with government administrators and NGO workers in Poland and the United States, coupled with archival research, Pospieszna assembles an original perspective on the mitigation of the 'postcommunist divide'. Her work will serve as a model for students and scholars of states in transition, and it provides an overview of both successful and unsuccessful strategies employed by NGOs in democracy assistance.
Although recent linguistic and media-studies' research has increasingly dealt with forms of imagery beyond language, such as in audiovisual formats, only little attention has been paid to the ...specific media character of audiovisual images. This raises a theoretical as well as methodological problem: How can processes of figurative meaning making in audiovisual media be adequately conceptualized and described? The book intends to bridge this research gap with an analysis of campaign commercials, a hitherto largely underexplored object of study in metaphor and metonymy research. To achieve this goal, a transdisciplinary film-analytical and cognitive-linguistic account of audiovisual figurativity is developed and examined through a comparative analysis of figurative meaning-making processes in German and Polish campaign commercials from 2009 and 2011. By setting the inseparable intertwining of language and cinematic staging, sensing and understanding center stage, the book provides insight into the dynamic nature and embodied affective grounds of audiovisual figurativity, and challenges the long-known dichotomies of rational discourse and affective manipulation, political message and media effect.
This volume is made up of essays first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is divided into two sections. The first deals ...with museological questions—the voices of the curators, comments on the POLIN museum exhibitions and projects, and discussions on Jewish museums and education. The second examines the current state of the historiography of the Jews on the Polish lands from the first Jewish settlement to the present day. Making use of the leading scholars in the field from Poland, Eastern and Western Europe, North America, and Israel, the volume provides a definitive overview of the history and culture of one of the most important communities in the long history of the Jewish people.
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