TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - 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 N2 - W swojej nowej książce Sean Martin prezentuje jeden z mniej znanych elementów życia polskich Żydów w okresie międzywojennym – działalność organizacji CENTOS (Centralnego Związku Towarzystw Opieki nad Żydowskimi Sierotami). Podtytuł Documentary History mówi wyraźnie, że mamy tu do czynienia ze starannie wyselekcjonowanym wyborem źródeł. Jak zauważa we wstępie Martin, historia Związku nie została jeszcze szczegółowo 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 Kahałów (tradycyjnych, religijnych gmin żydowskich), które stopniowo traciły na znaczeniu na rzecz lepiej wykształconych liderów społeczności: lekarzy, prawników czy nauczycieli. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7431 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Recenzja: "East Central Europe in Exile. Volume 1. Transatlantic Migrations" / Anna Mazurkiewicz (red.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. ISBN: 978-1443847254 N2 - Na przełomie maja i czerwca 2012 r. na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim odbyła się międzynarodowa konferencja „East Central Europe in Exile: Patterns of Transatlantic Migrations". Międzynarodowa współpraca 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 artykułów naukowych poświęconych zagadnieniom transatlantyckich migracji. (...) Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8040 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - 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 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8000 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - 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 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-11015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Recenzja: "East Central Europe in Exile. Volume 2. Transatlantic Identities" / Anna Mazurkiewicz (red.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. ISBN: 978-1443848916 N2 - Transatlantic Identities, drugi tom zbioru East Central Europe in Exile, składa się z osiemnastu rozdziałów podzielonych na cztery części. Podczas gdy tom pierwszy koncentrował się głównie na rozmaicie interpretowanych aspektach procesu migracji, tom drugi skupia się na „zachowaniu wschodnioeuropejskiej tożsamości, utrzymywaniu kontaktów ze 'starym krajem' oraz na działaniach podejmowanych na rzecz opuszczonej ojczyzny" (s. xx). Mimo tak jasno zdefiniowanych celów, Transatlantic Identities okazuje się nie tylko znacząco odbiegać jakością od Transatlantinc Migration, ale też tematycznie nie trzyma się ram ustalonych we wstępie przez redaktorów. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7881 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "Drogi Polaków 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 N2 - "Drogi Polaków 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. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8679 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - 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 N2 - 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 Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-9243 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "Kult Stalina. Studium alchemii władzy"/ Jan Plamper. Warszawa: Świat Książki, 2014. ISBN 9788379432752 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8957 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Recenzja: "Miasto Archipelag. Polska mniejszych miast" / Filip Springer. Kraków: Karakter, 2016. ISBN: 978-83-65271-20-4 N2 - Reforma administracyjna z 1999 roku drastycznie zmniejszyła liczbę polskich województw z dotychczasowych czterdziestu dziewięciu (istniejących od 1975) do zaledwie szesnastu. W wyniku tej zmiany trzydzieści jeden miast utraciło status miasta wojewódzkiego, stając się miastami powiatowymi. To właśnie o tych miejscach traktuje książka Filipa Springera „Miasto Archipelag". Autor rusza w drogę po byłych miastach wojewódzkich, odkrywając ich historię oraz zmiany, jakie w nich nastąpiły po ich „degradacji" do roli stolic powiatów. Jak możemy się przekonać w trakcie lektury, losy opisywanych miejsc, mimo pewnych elementów wspólnych (które mogłyby zostać bardziej uwypuklone), znacząco się od siebie różnią. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-9187 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "Shattered Spaces. Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland"/ Michael Meng. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0674053038 N2 - 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). Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-9436 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - 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 N2 - "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. Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-9401 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "The Anonymous Poet of Poland. Zygmunt Krasinski" / Monica M. Gardner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-1107461048 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10655 ER -