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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 61–65.
Published: 01 January 2022
... times, so far, in search of one. I first went there on October 19, 1985. I flew into Warsaw on October 17 and, having misread the train timetable at the office of Polorbis, the Polish tourist agency, in Mortimer Street, London, had to wait three and a half hours at Warsaw Central Station for the Kraków...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (3): 354–367.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in 2019 began to obstruct the project. There are numerous memorial plaques on buildings in Warsaw, but they are mostly dedicated to groups of civilians or resistance fighters who perished in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 at the hands of the Germans. The memorial to the Jews killed in Jedwabne, which...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 383–384.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of the shop. In the summer of 1944, flying bombs (to us doodlebugs, V1s to the authorities) and their potent successors, the V2 rockets, had replaced bombs. These we learned to live with, if that is the right phrase. Meanwhile, D-day and the Warsaw Uprising impressed themselves on my childish consciousness...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 493–517.
Published: 01 August 2010
... met with a sense of relief. of sense a with met were fighting desperate the of reports Yishuv, the of forums political and newspapers the In Ghetto. the Warsaw in Germans the fighting were Jews the that Palestine in received...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 328–338.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Copernicus. Yet as far as I knew he had never been employed. He owned a house in the countryside near Warsaw, of which Frau Blume used to say, “If only he could sell it, it would make him a millionaire!” But since he couldn't sell it, she used to send him money from her own meager salary. She was always...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 582–584.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... Ewa Lipska has written some twenty volumes of poetry (which have appeared in fifteen languages), as well as a novel, Sefer, published in 2009. The recipient of awards from P.E.N Warsaw, the Kościelski Foundation of Geneva, and the Jurzykowski Foundation of New...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (1): 149–169.
Published: 01 January 2007
... ˛ ´ c wyp , ed. Piotr Buras and Majewski (Warsaw: Biblio (Warsaw: Majewski and Buras , ed. Piotr...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 177–197.
Published: 01 April 2010
...”) in Pochwała niekonsekwencji: Pisma rozpro- the Polish communist regime) previously published in szone z lat 1955 – 1968, ed. Zbigniew Mentzel (London: his book Polskie Pytania (Warsaw: Niezalez˙na Oficyna Puls, 1989). Wydawnicza, 1993...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 582–594.
Published: 01 August 2002
..., is impossible—to describe him. I could not have known him in his early years; but sometimes I try to imag- ine him in Warsaw in the mid-fifties. I have heard anecdotes, recollections. I got to know him later, but even much later it was still...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (1): 82–92.
Published: 01 January 2004
..., Szachinszach (Warsaw: Czytel- nik, 2000), 29; Kapu´sci´nski, Shah of Shahs, trans. William 19. Quoted in Meyers, introduction to Under Western R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand (New York: Eyes, xiv...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 387–418.
Published: 01 August 2012
... . by the the by ­ Michnik • When Socrates Became Pericles 391 (Warsaw: Pa ´nstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1978) ´nstwowyWydawniczy, Pa (Warsaw: Instytut Janaszek Halina ed. oczach. XX...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 29–36.
Published: 01 January 2003
....” I have never been to Kaufbeuren. I have been to Tworki, a mental hospi- tal near Warsaw so long established and well known that Poles use the phrase “going to Tworki” of anyone who exhibits signs of madness. During the German CK 9.1-03 Richmond 10/31/02 10...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 269–282.
Published: 01 April 2011
... musicale Gazette et Revue 2 : 384 vols. (Warsaw: Pan´ stwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Wydawniczy, Instytut Pan´ stwowy (Warsaw: vols...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (2): 175–184.
Published: 01 April 2005
..., affair. offi ment govern- in persecutors their and heroes Poland,” Home Army both nationalist Poland”“leftist- and of“ethnic-Catholic representatives Polishcitizens, and grants emi- Warsaw governments, and London forthe spokesmen the them: offended hehad felt that everyone...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 571–581.
Published: 01 August 2002
.... And every private loosens his bayonet, policemen pass by hollering inanities. The whole army runs in great caucuses. Warsaw abandoned, Riga, Minsk...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 557–568.
Published: 01 August 2012
..., Nowa Fala Nowa one ofas the described been has Lipska s. (Warsaw: (Warsaw...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (2): 185–197.
Published: 01 April 2005
... that partitions The counterparts. the closing of a production of Mickiewicz’s verse drama drama verse of Mickiewicz’s ofaproduction closing the of riots Warsaw student...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 178–181.
Published: 01 January 2008
...-Newberry coeditor the Memorial Stilwell Q. John Glowinski. Michal by memoir Holocaust Polish of translator also is She History. Contemporary in Prize Fraenkel the 1918   in Marxism, Death A and Life Warsaw Generation’s Ashes: Shore Marci Two Being of Poetics The ’s book, Roberts...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 531–535.
Published: 01 August 2007
... living in Copenhagen. living Ford. Mark and Burroughs, S. a Warsaw Stein, William into Polishpublishedhas poet, by Gertrude oftranslations texts Altered State: The New Polish Poetry ofhavepoems anthologies, his appeared two in translations plays. English six written also has He Bosnia...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 363–370.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Badeni's gardens in Warsaw. Fat chance! On July 28, 1916, in the Gregorian calendar, which corresponded to the year 1332/1333 of the Hegira, 1363 for the Armenian-Gregorians, and 5674/5675 in the Hebrew calendar, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. When Europe mobilized, August 8, 1914, in the old...