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...Wanda Wyporska Ostling Michael , Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 ), 279 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas J. Heffernan, The Passion of Perpetua...

...Clare Cavanagh Duke University Press 2004 POSTCOLONIAL POLAND Clare Cavanagh “The rage,” my author laments, that one feels on reading sixteenth-century memoir accounts whose authors, mostly priests, recount the atrocities...

...Nina Pelikan Straus Cavanagh Clare , Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2009 ), 344 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from...

...Clare Cavanagh Duke University Press 2005 COLUMNS POETRY AND HISTORY Poland’s Acknowledged Legislators Clare Cavanagh I have felt that the problem of my time should be defi ned as Poetry and History...

... in chief of Hospodárske Noviny, the lead- ing Czech business newspaper, put a set of questions to Adam Michnik, editor in chief of Gazeta wyborcza, a leading newspaper in Poland. The questions and replies were as follows. Havel: In a recent essay, “Praying for Rain,” you described the situation...

..., Czech the and Poland between tension for point focal a as emerged the fraternal atmosphere of Union bodies. Whatever the case, the year some arguments will be easier to pursue in the context of negotiation than within accession, as those within the EU (as well as those in its...

... the best known and even the most popular thinker in Poland of the half-century following World War II. Adam Michnik 2010 Translated by Jennifer Croft COLUMNS THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER In Strange Communion...

... and consecration of the dead in Poland and the painful confrontation with the unburied dead of the Holocaust, of whom Ginczanka is one. Her best-known poem, a bitter parody of Juliusz Słowacki's “My Testament,” turns the Horatian notion of poetry as the most precious and enduring legacy on its head by construing...

... on the Gospels in order to document and argue for the symmetry or symbiosis that he perceived between Judaism and Christianity. Oswald Rufeisen, from a twentieth-century secular Zionist background in Poland, converted to Catholicism during World War II, became a monk, and attempted to immigrate to Israel...

... thing resembling it. Each of these events has had its own specific context in its own country. Likewise in my country, Poland, the debates among historians, 517 intellectuals, and politicians express specifically Polish concerns about Polish memory...

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..., that I had traveled so far. I had wanted to meet this man who was like a part of Frau Blume we had never seen—her shadow side. Jurek told me that Salvatore owned an Italian restaurant in town. “His wife is from Poland, and she is a philologist, like myself.” It was dark by now...

..., in their culture and ethnic makeup, as the democratic, white, and Christian Republic of Poland. Meanwhile, Poland has refused, ostensibly on Christian grounds, to admit the small quota of seven thousand Muslim refugees that the European Union had asked it to accept. The Migration Policy Institute reports...

...” in Interest 16 (summer 1989): 3–18. See also Fukuyama, The 8.3 (fall 2002): 516–25. Jacek Kuron´ published “Mani- End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, festo: Phase Two of a Program for Poland,” Common...

...-Hungarian epoch, or in interwar Poland, or during the Soviet era, or in a remote, picturesque landscape. Whether set in the city or in the distant countryside, his poems remain perfectly—even extravagantly—mythical in sensibility. Yuri Andrukhovych's poems are central to contemporary Ukrainian...

... the World Wars, in Eastern and Central Europe—in Russia, Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland— due to a set of intersecting cultural determinations and institutional factors.5 Before specifying those determinations and factors, I ought to recapitulate the contribution of Eastern and Central Europe to later...

... The Crisis of Empire and the Poetry and History: Problem of Slavery: Poland’s Acknowledged Legislators Portugal and Brazil, c. 1700–c. 1820 Clare Cavanagh Kirsten Schultz 185 264 Imperial...

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... relationship with the Jewish people. As the young archbishop of Kraców in Poland—he was only forty-five at the time—Karol Wojtyla signed the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra aetate) on October 28, 1965, which COMMON KNOWLEDGE...