TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "Literatura niewyczerpana. W kręgu mniej znanych twórców polskiej literatury lat 1863–1914" / Krzysztof Fiołek (ed.). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Universitas, 2014. ISBN: 97883-242-2615-3 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7496 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "Antysemityzm. Niezamknięta historia" / Bożena Keff. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca, 2013. ISBN: 978-83-7554-300-1 N2 - "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] Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10557 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Miłosz K. T1 - Review: "Jewish Poland revisited. Heritage tourism in unquiet places" / Erica T. Lehrer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0253008862 N2 - 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 Muranów, 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. Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-12437 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "Zapomniany pokój. Traktat ryski. Interpretacje i kontrowersje 90 lat później"/ Sławomir Dębski. Warszawa: Centrum Polsko-Rosyjskiego Dialogu i Porozumienia, 2013. ISBN 9788393519200 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-11795 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland"/ Erica Lehrer; Michael Meng. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-253-01503-7 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-12065 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis. Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky" / Glenn Dynner, François Guesnet (ed.). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. ISBN: 978-90-04-29181-2 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10143 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - 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 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10173 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - 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 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7251 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - Review: "Spór o mesjanizm. Rozwój idei" / Andrzej Wawrzynowicz. Warszawa: Klasycy Polskiej Nowoczesności, 2015. ISBN: 978-83-62609-46-8 N2 - Andrzej Wawrzynowicz's collection Spór 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. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7236 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cybowski, Milosz K. T1 - 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 N2 - Wydany w 2017 roku zbiór 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 różnica między tymi pojęciami (s. 3-5) pozwoliła na zawarcie w tym zbiorze artykułów znacząco odbiegających od klasycznych studiów 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. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7269 ER -