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Once There Was Warsaw
A Memoir
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780815602835
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
As a young man in interwar Warsaw, newspaperman Ber Kutscher threw himself into the city’s vibrant Jewish arts and culture scene from the headquarters of the Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists...
Once There Was Warsaw
A Memoir
Price:
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780815611707
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
As a young man in interwar Warsaw, newspaperman Ber Kutscher threw himself into the city’s vibrant Jewish arts and culture scene from the headquarters of the Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists...
The Politics of Love
Gender and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Poland
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CA$68.95
ISBN: 9781501776649
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
The Politics of Love describes the history of Polish intellectual and cultural life, which covertly flourished at home and abroad despite imperial repression between Poland's two great uprisings in...
Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930?1949
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CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781891011689
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: The Experiment
Available again for the first time in decades, this jewel of a memoir is the poignant story of a young Jewish girl growing up in a Polish farm village, from the peaceful early 1930s through the tragic...
Limiting Privilege
Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781612498829
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Purdue University Press
State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities?all within a single lifetime....
The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler
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CA$97.95
ISBN: 9780813236773
Pub Date: November 2023
The Catholic University of America Press is honored to publish the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojty?a/John Paul II. Prepared under the auspices of the John Paul II Institute in Washington...
Violent Space
The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
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CA$58.95
ISBN: 9780253067432
Pub Date: November 2023
For Nazi Germany, the ghetto was a conceptual tool used to facilitate social and political exclusion and further their anti-Jewish campaign. For the Jews who lived in them, the ghettos became the center...
Kingdom of Barracks
Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria
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CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780228017301
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Kingdom of Barracks depicts the texture of everyday life in refugee camps in postwar Europe. Taking a bottom-up perspective, Katarzyna Nowak examines the experiences of Polish Displaced Persons in the shadow of the mounting Cold War and explores the formation of cultural identity in exile through the lenses of class, gender, body, and nationality.
The Transformation of Civil Society
An Oral History of Ukrainian Peasant Culture, 1920s to 1930s
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CA$85.00
ISBN: 9780228016915
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The terror unleashed by Soviet power on the Ukrainian countryside in the early 1930s altered every aspect of village life. Based on extensive interviews with villagers throughout Ukraine, The Transformation of Civil Society provides an oral history of the material and cultural destruction sustained in rural Ukraine throughout the Stalinist era.
Przemyśl, Poland
A Multiethnic City During and After a Fortress, 1867-1939
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781612498096
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Purdue University Press
Przemy?l, Poland: A Multiethnic City During and After a Fortress, 1867?1939 examines the economic, political, demographic, and cultural ramifications of Austro-Hungarian military investment in Przemy?l,...
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 35
Promised Lands: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781800859937
Pub Date: February 2023
An in-depth and multifaceted investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israel?s cultural and political development, as well as of how the Zionist project influenced...
Communism's Public Sphere
Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781501767043
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Communism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to spaces of art: theaters,...
Jews and Science
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781612498010
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: Purdue University Press
Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the...
Entangled in Fear
Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944?1947
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CA$48.95
ISBN: 9780253063090
Pub Date: September 2022
"Fear is always experienced individually, and few experiences are as personal. There can be no collective fear without individual fear preceding it. A society's fear is born out of the convergence of...
Passion and Restraint
Poles and Poland in Western Diplomacy, 1914-1921
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CA$130.00
ISBN: 9780228011880
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Western policymakers knew little about Poland in 1914, but by the end of the First World War were drawing the new country’s borders, sending humanitarian aid, and imposing minority protections. Passion and Restraint examines how British, French, and American foreign policymakers interacted with Poles and the notion of an independent Poland.
Unsettled Heritage
Living next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust
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CA$64.95
ISBN: 9781501761744
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
In Unsettled Heritage, Yechiel Weizman explores what happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places of worship that remained in Poland after the Holocaust, asking how postwar society...
Once There Was Warsaw
A Memoir
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780815602835
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Once There Was Warsaw
A Memoir
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780815611707
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
The Politics of Love
Gender and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Poland
CA$68.95
ISBN: 9781501776649
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930?1949
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781891011689
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: The Experiment
Limiting Privilege
Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781612498829
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Purdue University Press
The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler
CA$97.95
ISBN: 9780813236773
Pub Date: November 2023
Violent Space
The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
CA$58.95
ISBN: 9780253067432
Pub Date: November 2023
Kingdom of Barracks
Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780228017301
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The Transformation of Civil Society
An Oral History of Ukrainian Peasant Culture, 1920s to 1930s
CA$85.00
ISBN: 9780228016915
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Przemyśl, Poland
A Multiethnic City During and After a Fortress, 1867-1939
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781612498096
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Purdue University Press
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 35
Promised Lands: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781800859937
Pub Date: February 2023
Communism's Public Sphere
Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781501767043
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Jews and Science
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781612498010
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: Purdue University Press
Entangled in Fear
Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944?1947
CA$48.95
ISBN: 9780253063090
Pub Date: September 2022
Passion and Restraint
Poles and Poland in Western Diplomacy, 1914-1921
CA$130.00
ISBN: 9780228011880
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Unsettled Heritage
Living next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust
CA$64.95
ISBN: 9781501761744
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press