@misc{Cybowski2019, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Literatura niewyczerpana. W kręgu mniej znanych tw{\´o}rc{\´o}w polskiej literatury lat 1863-1914" / Krzysztof Fiołek (ed.). Krak{\´o}w: Wydawnictwo Universitas, 2014. ISBN: 97883-242-2615-3}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-749}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7496}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This collection of over fifty essays is devoted, as the title suggests, to a number of lesser known authors of Polish literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Instead of limiting the subject of the volume to well-known themes of late romanticism, positivism and Young Poland (as Polish modernism was widely known), one of the main aims of the book is to present authors and works that did not fit into these pre-defined terms. The writers presented in Literatura niewyczerpana are people who created outside the mainstream, or who crossed the boundaries of literary epochs. Significantly, the collection is not only about those who were forgotten and lesser known literary figures, but also about recognised authors and their less popular writings. By avoiding any clear-cut categories when it comes to the periodization of the history of Polish literature, the book brings together essays which could be interesting for readers from beyond the discipline of literary studies.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2016, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Antysemityzm. Niezamknięta historia" / Bożena Keff. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca, 2013. ISBN: 978-83-7554-300-1}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1055}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10557}, year = {2016}, abstract = {"Bożena Keff's essay is not a historical work, but reflection on culture" we can read on the cover of "Antysemityzm". It is a very good summary of the book which offers a nice summary of the history of anti-Semitism in Europe and Poland. Aiming at a wide audience including "college students, university students, teachers and lecturers", the book may serve as an introduction to the topic for those who have never had a chance to read more comprehensive studies discussing the same problem.[1]}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2015, author = {Cybowski, Miłosz K.}, title = {Review: "Jewish Poland revisited. Heritage tourism in unquiet places" / Erica T. Lehrer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0253008862}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1243}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-12437}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Erica Lehrer's "Jewish Poland Revisited. Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places" is an ethnographical study of contemporary Poland. Or, to put things more accurately, it is a study of contemporary Kazimierz, Cracow's prewar Jewish district. Unlike other Jewish places across Poland (for example Muran{\´o}w, the Jewish part of Warsaw, destroyed during the war), buildings in Kazimierz survived the war almost intact. However, the majority of its Jewish population perished in the nearby Auschwitz death camp, leaving the district devoid of its rich pre-war Jewish culture. Lehrer's interest in Kazimierz began in the 1990s, when the area was slowly transforming from the city's slum (as it had been perceived throughout the communist era) into a trendier and more Jewish place. The post-1989 years saw a rising number of Jewish tourists flocking into the area, as well as the growing interest in Jewish history and culture among non-Jewish Poles. Lehrer's attempt to analyse both Jewish and Polish sides of the problem can be divided into two parts. The first half (chapters two and three) is concerned with the outsiders' view of Kazimierz and Poland while the second half (chapters four, five and six) discusses aspects of Polish involvement in the local heritage and tourism.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2015, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Zapomniany pok{\´o}j. Traktat ryski. Interpretacje i kontrowersje 90 lat p{\´o}{\'{z}}niej"/ Sławomir Dębski. Warszawa: Centrum Polsko-Rosyjskiego Dialogu i Porozumienia, 2013. ISBN 9788393519200}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1179}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-11795}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The main aim of this collection of essays is to challenge the general Western historical approach to the results of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. The peace treaty (or, to be more accurate, a number of peace treaties) was signed between Allied and Central Powers and it established a new political order that was to govern European politics for the next twenty years. Essays published in this volume attempt to present a more complex picture of the post-World War I politics. As the authors argue, European peace after the Great War was governed not only by the Treaty of Versailles, but also by the Treaty of Riga signed in March 1921. In other words, Riga played as important a role in the East as Versailles did in the West. The book is not the first attempt to put the Treaty in a wider context. It is rather surprising that the editor of the volume does not mention Traktat ryski roku 1921 po 75 latach (1998), which is an earlier collection of essays edited by Mieczysław Wojciechowski.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2015, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland"/ Erica Lehrer; Michael Meng. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-253-01503-7}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1206}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-12065}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The growing interest in the Jewish past that has been visible in Poland in the last two decades gave rise to a wide range of cultural and commemorative initiatives across the whole country. The collection of essays "Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland" is an academic response to these developments. Edited by Erica Lehrer (author of "Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places" [link]) and Michael Meng (author of "Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland" [link]), the volume explores the question of how today's Poland responds to its Jewish (and not only Jewish) past. As editors Lehrer and Meng note in their introduction, 'space as a common analytical category' (p. 3) is the unifying element of the whole volume. As a result, most authors look at different sites of Jewish past (from centres such as Cracow and Warsaw, to less known Szczecin and Lodz, to entirely local examples of Chmielnik and Brzostek), with only a few of them (Tyszka, Cohn and to some extent Kapralski) trying to look at the issue of space from a wider perspective. Since the authors of the thirteen articles collected in this work represent various academic disciplines (from history to anthropology), "Jewish Space" is a truly interdisciplinary study. This diversity, however, is both a strength and weakness of the book.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2016, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis. Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky" / Glenn Dynner, Fran{\c{c}}ois Guesnet (ed.). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. ISBN: 978-90-04-29181-2}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1014}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10143}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis is an impressive collection of twenty five scholarly essays devoted to Warsaw and its Jewish community, from the earliest (mostly illegal) Jewish settlements in the Polish capital in the sixteenth century to the destruction and reconstruction of the Jewish community in the twentieth century. The book is divided into two parts: Part I ("The Rise of the Metropolis") discusses over four centuries of Jewish history in Warsaw prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Part II ("Destruction of the Metropolis and Its Aftermath") presents new approaches to the tragic events of the post-1939 era. As the editors argue in the introduction to the volume, Warsaw's status of 'the first true metropolis in diasporic Jewish history' was not only about the numbers of Jews living there, but also about the diversity of the Jewish community (p. 2). This element became one of the recurring themes in almost all essays discussing the pre-war period.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2016, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Anti-Jewish Violence. Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History" / Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir, Israel Bartal (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-253-35520-1}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1017}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10173}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Anti-Jewish Violence. Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History, edited by Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Nathan M. Meir and Israel Bartal, is a collection of eleven essays devoted to pogroms and their role in the history of Jewish-non-Jewish relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Without looking at pogroms through the lens of the Holocaust, the authors succeeded in presenting different types of pogroms (or the lack of them at the times of the growing anti-Jewish violence) in a new and highly unique way.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2019, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Primed for Violence. Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland" / Paul Brykczynski. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-299-30700-4}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-725}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7251}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Published in English in 2016 and translated into Polish one year later,[1] Paul Brykczynski's study is an important contribution to the subject of Polish interwar politics and antisemitism. The author concentrates on the events which surrounded the election and assassination of the first president of the Second Polish Republic, Gabriel Narutowicz. It is not an attempt to answer the question "why", but to define "how" it was possible that a nationalistic and antisemitic discourse introduced to Polish interwar politics by the National Democrats led to that tragedy. However, Brykczynski does not stop at the assassination itself or the trial and the execution of Eligiusz Niewiadomski, who committed the murder. The author points at the wider political and social issues related to that event and the impact the murder had on interwar Poland as a whole.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2019, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Sp{\´o}r o mesjanizm. Rozw{\´o}j idei" / Andrzej Wawrzynowicz. Warszawa: Klasycy Polskiej Nowoczesności, 2015. ISBN: 978-83-62609-46-8}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-723}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7236}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Andrzej Wawrzynowicz's collection Sp{\´o}r o mesjanizm is a three-volume publication devoted to the subject of Polish messianic thought. The books were published in the series Klasycy Polskiej Nowoczesności (Classics of Polish Modernism) by Fundacja Augusta Hrabiego Cieszkowskiego and they are a valuable contribution to Polish intellectual history. In the first volume Wawrzynowicz introduces the subject of messianism and the most significant writers who developed messianic ideas in their works. The book consists of a wide range of primary sources, with very little commentary. The texts presented here were written over a period of more than 140 years: the earliest one dates back to 1800-1801 and was published in 1818, while the last one dates from 1939. The book is divided into three parts, each presenting works associated with a different phase of the intellectual development of the messianic idea: pre-messianism (part one), proper messianism (part two) and neo-messianism (part three). As the author argues in the introductory essay, the purpose of this volume is to "provide the reader with primary sources allowing a broad insight into the complex issue of history of Polish messianism" (p. v). Indeed, the broad scope of the collection challenges the most common interpretation of messianic thought as being limited to the romanticist period of Polish literature and philosophy.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2019, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Recenzja: "Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age: Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia" / Anika Walke, Jan Musekamp, Nicole Svobodny (red.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780253024763}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-726}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7269}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Wydany w 2017 roku zbi{\´o}r Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age: Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia prezentuje dwanaście prac dotyczących zagadnienia migracji oraz szeroko pojętej mobilności (rozumianej jako „możliwość poruszania się"). Podkreślana we wstępie r{\´o}żnica między tymi pojęciami (s. 3-5) pozwoliła na zawarcie w tym zbiorze artykuł{\´o}w znacząco odbiegających od klasycznych studi{\´o}w nad migracjami. Dodatkowym elementem mającym łączyć wszystkie rozdziały jest kwestia wpływu tytułowych zagadnień na Europę Środkową oraz Rosję (s. 2). Niestety, ta ostatnia tematyka pojawia się bardzo rzadko.}, language = {pl} } @misc{Cybowski2019, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Recenzja: "For the Good of the Nation: Institutions for Jewish Children in Interwar Poland. A Documentary History" / Sean Martin. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781618115676}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int ( www.pol-int.org )}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-743}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7431}, year = {2019}, abstract = {W swojej nowej książce Sean Martin prezentuje jeden z mniej znanych element{\´o}w życia polskich Żyd{\´o}w w okresie międzywojennym - działalność organizacji CENTOS (Centralnego Związku Towarzystw Opieki nad Żydowskimi Sierotami). Podtytuł Documentary History m{\´o}wi wyra{\'{z}}nie, że mamy tu do czynienia ze starannie wyselekcjonowanym wyborem {\'{z}}r{\´o}deł. Jak zauważa we wstępie Martin, historia Związku nie została jeszcze szczeg{\´o}łowo opowiedziana i choć odniesienia do jego działalności pojawiają się w licznych opracowaniach, wciąż pozostaje bardzo wiele do zrobienia w tym temacie. W nieco szerszym kontekście osoby zaangażowane w pracę na rzecz żydowskich sierot odegrały bardzo znaczącą rolę w transformacji samego żydowskiego społeczeństwa Polski międzywojennej (s. vii-viii). Wiązało się to ze stopniową, powojenną sekularyzacją lokalnego życia gmin żydowskich - pierwsza wojna światowa udowodniła słabość Kahał{\´o}w (tradycyjnych, religijnych gmin żydowskich), kt{\´o}re stopniowo traciły na znaczeniu na rzecz lepiej wykształconych lider{\´o}w społeczności: lekarzy, prawnik{\´o}w czy nauczycieli.}, language = {pl} } @misc{Cybowski2018, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Recenzja: "East Central Europe in Exile. Volume 1. Transatlantic Migrations" / Anna Mazurkiewicz (red.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. ISBN: 978-1443847254}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-804}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8040}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Na przełomie maja i czerwca 2012 r. na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim odbyła się międzynarodowa konferencja „East Central Europe in Exile: Patterns of Transatlantic Migrations". Międzynarodowa wsp{\´o}łpraca między instytucjami naukowymi z Polski, Słowacji, Czech i Węgier nie tylko pozwoliła na zorganizowanie tego wydarzenia, ale też przyczyniła się do powstania pokonferencyjnej publikacji. Dwa tomy "East Central Europe in Exile" pod redakcją Anny Mazurkiewicz prezentują w sumie trzydzieści osiem artykuł{\´o}w naukowych poświęconych zagadnieniom transatlantyckich migracji. (...)}, language = {pl} } @misc{Cybowski2018, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture" / Barbara Korte, Eva U. Pirker, Sissy Helff (ed.). Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2010. ISBN: 978-9042030497}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int ( www.pol-int.org )}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-800}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8000}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Facing the East in the West is a collection of twenty-nine short essays devoted to various perceptions of the widely defined "East" in Britain. Most papers in this volume deal with contemporary sources and representations, while only a few of them go back in time to look at historical perceptions (usually not older than the late nineteenth century). As a result, despite occasional glimpses into the past, Facing the East in the West may be considered a significant contribution to an understanding of the ways in which British contemporary culture perceives the East. Or, taking into account the year of publication, the ways in which British culture perceived the East in the years that followed the accession to the European Union of a number of post-communist states.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2016, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Polska to nie oni. Polska i Polacy w polskojęzycznej prasie żydowskiej II Rzeczypospolitej"/ Anna Landau-Czajka. Warszawa: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, 2015. ISBN 978-83-61850-51-9}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1101}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-11015}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Anna Laudau-Czajka's "Polska to nie oni. Polska i Polacy w polskojęzycznej prasie żydowskiej II Rzeczypospolitej" presents a very interesting approach to Jewish-Polish relations in interwar Poland. The book looks at the issues of Polish antisemitism, Jewish patriotism and assimilation by analysing Jewish newspapers published in Polish, making the issue of language the most important element of the study. Landau-Czajka is fully aware of the nuances of Jewish interwar press, understanding the difficulties of her own work and presenting a collection of different case studies that should be treated more as a catalogue of questions than as a list of clear answers (p. 11). She is also aware of the tricky issue of public opinion and the fact that Jewish press published in Polish, though read mostly by acculturated (not assimilated) Jews, cannot be considered as an expression of any universal Jewish perceptions of Poles and Poland (pp. 42-3). It cannot even be considered as an expression of acculturated Jews' opinions, partly because different newspapers presented different opinions, partly because these opinions changed over time.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2018, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Recenzja: "East Central Europe in Exile. Volume 2. Transatlantic Identities" / Anna Mazurkiewicz (red.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. ISBN: 978-1443848916}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-788}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7881}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Transatlantic Identities, drugi tom zbioru East Central Europe in Exile, składa się z osiemnastu rozdział{\´o}w podzielonych na cztery części. Podczas gdy tom pierwszy koncentrował się gł{\´o}wnie na rozmaicie interpretowanych aspektach procesu migracji, tom drugi skupia się na „zachowaniu wschodnioeuropejskiej tożsamości, utrzymywaniu kontakt{\´o}w ze 'starym krajem' oraz na działaniach podejmowanych na rzecz opuszczonej ojczyzny" (s. xx). Mimo tak jasno zdefiniowanych cel{\´o}w, Transatlantic Identities okazuje się nie tylko znacząco odbiegać jakością od Transatlantinc Migration, ale też tematycznie nie trzyma się ram ustalonych we wstępie przez redaktor{\´o}w.}, language = {pl} } @misc{Cybowski2018, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Drogi Polak{\´o}w do niepodległości. W 150 rocznicę powstania styczniowego" / Wiesław Caban, Lidia Michalska-Bracha, Wiktoria Śliwowska (ed.). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2015. ISBN: 978-83-7181-912-4}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-867}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8679}, year = {2018}, abstract = {"Drogi Polak{\´o}w do niepodległości. W 150. rocznicę powstania styczniowego" is a collection of thirty-five scholarly essays devoted mostly to nineteenth century Polish history, with several works discussing matters of the later part of this century, at times catering to the subject of the early interwar period. As the title suggests, particular attention is given to the various ways in which Poles tried to regain independence at the time of the partitions (1795-1918). The book is divided into four parts, each discussing different aspects of the Polish struggle for independence. Regardless of the anniversary of the January Uprising mentioned in the title, the volume does not limit itself to articles devoted solely to the subject of that particular event. The editors of this volume are renowned scholars specialising in nineteenth century history. Wiktoria Śliwowska is a specialist of Russian history in that period and many of her works concentrate on the subject of Polish exiles in the Russian Empire. Lidia Michalska-Bracha works on the subject of Polish history and memory in the late nineteenth century, while Wiesław Caban focuses on the local history of the Kielce region and Polish-Russian relations during the period of the January Uprising.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2017, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe. The School as the Shrine of the Jewish Enlightenment" / Mordechai Zalkin. Leiden: Brill, 2016. ISBN: 978-9004308206}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-924}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-9243}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Mordechai Zalkin's work, published by Brill in 2016, is the English version of his book published in 2008 in Hebrew under the title From 'Heder' to School: The Modernisation Process in 19th Century East European Jewish Education. The book is a relatively short study of the ways in which the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) and its proponents (maskilim) attempted to modernise the education of Eastern European Jews (here limited geographically to the territories of Russia, particularly the Pale of Settlement). As Zalkin argues, the subject of education has usually remained on the margins of wider studies of Haskalah. His work offers a unique insight into the "formulation of maskilic educational thinking" (p. 1). Although the author is fully aware of all major debates taking place among the maskilim, he devotes only one section of the book (chapter 5) to the practical implementation of these ideas. Because of its brevity (the book is 192 pages long, with only about 160 pages of actual content), Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Europe requires a very good knowledge of the nuanced history of Jewish Enlightenment, since Zalkin does not even attempt to introduce neither historical nor ideological context, in which all the theoretical debates on the subject of Jewish education took place}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2015, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Kult Stalina. Studium alchemii władzy"/ Jan Plamper. Warszawa: Świat Książki, 2014. ISBN 9788379432752}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-895}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8957}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Among the many books about the Soviet leader published in recent years in Poland, "Kult Stalina" is unique in its approach to the subject. The book is the Polish edition of Jan Plamper's "The Stalin Cult. A Study in the Alchemy of Power" published originally in English by Yale University Press in 2012 and does not include any additional material. Plamper's work is not another biography of Stalin (among those that have been published in the last decades especially the works by Dmitri Volkogonov, Edvard Radzinsky and Simon Sebag Montefiore should be mentioned [1]); instead, the author offers a unique study on the "alchemy of power" - in other words, he looks at the cult of Stalin, answering the questions of its origin, evolution, central elements and the ways in which representations of the cult were created.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2017, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Recenzja: "Miasto Archipelag. Polska mniejszych miast" / Filip Springer. Krak{\´o}w: Karakter, 2016. ISBN: 978-83-65271-20-4}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-918}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-9187}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Reforma administracyjna z 1999 roku drastycznie zmniejszyła liczbę polskich wojew{\´o}dztw z dotychczasowych czterdziestu dziewięciu (istniejących od 1975) do zaledwie szesnastu. W wyniku tej zmiany trzydzieści jeden miast utraciło status miasta wojew{\´o}dzkiego, stając się miastami powiatowymi. To właśnie o tych miejscach traktuje książka Filipa Springera „Miasto Archipelag". Autor rusza w drogę po byłych miastach wojew{\´o}dzkich, odkrywając ich historię oraz zmiany, jakie w nich nastąpiły po ich „degradacji" do roli stolic powiat{\´o}w. Jak możemy się przekonać w trakcie lektury, losy opisywanych miejsc, mimo pewnych element{\´o}w wsp{\´o}lnych (kt{\´o}re mogłyby zostać bardziej uwypuklone), znacząco się od siebie r{\´o}żnią.}, language = {pl} } @misc{Cybowski2015, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Shattered Spaces. Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland"/ Michael Meng. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0674053038}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-943}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-9436}, year = {2015}, abstract = {In "Shattered Spaces. Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland" Michael Meng looks at two cases of remembering, preserving and reconstructing the Jewish past from 1945 to 2010. In his presentation of a "shifting history of Jewish sites" (p. 10), the author analyses five cities: Essen, Berlin (East and West), Potsdam, Wroclaw and Warsaw. While the Polish and German capitals were chosen as the largest Jewish cultural centres before the war, the three other cities "provide different glimpses into the postwar history of Jewish sites" (p. 10). Five chapters of the book present dichotomies and similarities between his case studies breaking with the common assumptions of the good West (preserving Jewish places) and bad East (destroying and erasing them). Though governed by different principles and ideas, Germany and Poland engaged in similar activities towards postwar Jewish ruins creating "a parallel history across a diverse region" (p. xii).}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2015, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "Polish Risorgimento. Visions of the Modern Polish Nation and their Italian Foundations"/ Lidia Jurek. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012. ISBN 978-3-631-62401-2}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-940}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-9401}, year = {2015}, abstract = {"Polish Risorgimento" by Lidia Jurek explores contacts and problems relating to Polish-Italian relations in the years 1848-1871. The book, based on the author's PhD thesis, is the first instalment of the "Eastern European Culture, Politics and Societies" series and it concentrates on three main problems: the presence of Italian models in the Polish search for reconstructing the Polish nation, the impact of successful Italian unification on Polish elites and their national identity-making and, finally, the relationship between nationalism and religion. These issues are discussed in three parts, each one dealing with "different national strategies which were drawn from the Italian example" (p. 45). Although Jurek's work is not the first dealing with this subject, it presents the most complex picture of these contacts.}, language = {en} } @misc{Cybowski2016, author = {Cybowski, Milosz K.}, title = {Review: "The Anonymous Poet of Poland. Zygmunt Krasinski" / Monica M. Gardner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-1107461048}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1065}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10655}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The Anonymous Poet of Poland, as well as other studies by Gardner, was undoubtedly a pioneering work when it was first published. Today the decision to reprint this book may appear a little odd, but let us hope that it may initiate a greater interest in Polish Romantic writing, both in Poland and abroad.}, language = {en} }