https://pljournal.com/Journal of Polanden-UShttps://pljournal.com/1281/the-novels-of-wieslaw-mysliwski/https://pljournal.com/1281/the-novels-of-wieslaw-mysliwski/Fri, 09 May 2014 10:44:49 GMTJack“The narrator in A Treatise works year-round as a caretaker at a forest resort, his salary paid by the absent and mysterious owner, Mr. Robert. The novel begins with a plaintive and absurd question: “You’re here to buy beans, sir? From me?” The caretaker is ostensibly addressing an out-of-season visitor, but the interlocutor’s presence is minimal. The […]https://pljournal.com/641/a-colorful-marriage-of-trade-and-art/https://pljournal.com/641/a-colorful-marriage-of-trade-and-art/Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:38:40 GMTJackThe people of Poznan have a good reason to be proud. Their city is the home of world's best shopping, art and business center called Stary Browar (Old Brewery). This 19th century building before the war had been the leader among the best Polish breweries. After the war, it was nearly ruined by the post war socialists and killed after the political transformation by the new communist authorities. Fortunately, at the beginning of the third millennium Poznan's Old Brewery was rejuvenated and rehabbed to a completely new shape.https://pljournal.com/15/travels-with-kapuscinski/https://pljournal.com/15/travels-with-kapuscinski/Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMTJoanna Topor MackenzieDuring his time as a foreign correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, Ryszard Kapuscinski amassed the type of credentials most journalists only dream of – also the kind few would actually want to pursue. We are told in the about-the-author section of The Shadow Of The Sun (2001) that he witnessed 27 coups and revolutions […]https://pljournal.com/1167/the-most-magical-places-in-poland-hel/https://pljournal.com/1167/the-most-magical-places-in-poland-hel/Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMTJanuary BrunoHel is considered to be one of the most picturesque Polish towns, located on the 18.6 mile-long promontory jutting out into the Baltic Sea. The first settlers arrived here a few centuries B.C. Written records indicate that Hel was a fishing settlement, engaging in the herring trade in the 2nd century A.D. Today Hel harbors tourist boats and private yachts next to traditional fishing cutters.https://pljournal.com/738/jan-karski-interviews/https://pljournal.com/738/jan-karski-interviews/Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMTE. Thomas WoodThe in-person interviews took place at the two high-rise apartments he owned, in succession, in Friendship Heights, just northwest of the D.C. line in Maryland. The encounters took years off my life. I could not wish otherwise, then or now. Throughout the time I was meeting with him about the prospective biography, Karski chain-smoked filterless […]https://pljournal.com/750/jan-karski-interviews-part-7/https://pljournal.com/750/jan-karski-interviews-part-7/Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMTE. Thomas Wood[In book you mention brothers: Adam, second brother to whom you were not close. Stephen, third brother, had son involved in black market and thus was dangerous. Accurate? You give Marian's name and age.] Jan Karski: “First, I don’t remember what I wrote. I didn’t have any brother by the name of Adam. I did […]https://pljournal.com/749/bodzianowski-gator-on-the-ropes/https://pljournal.com/749/bodzianowski-gator-on-the-ropes/Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMTSteve Wilburn, Siobhan TobinThe true story of Polish American Craig “Gator” Bodzianowski, the “up-and-coming” cruiserweight boxer who, after losing part of one leg in a motorcycle accident, is told his boxing career is over. In true hero fashion, Gator makes one of the greatest professional sports comebacks ever, culminating in a WBA World Championship Fight. By now, most […]https://pljournal.com/744/jan-karski-interviews-part-6/https://pljournal.com/744/jan-karski-interviews-part-6/Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMTE. Thomas Wood[On responding to Pro-Soviet Brits by telling of his own experience in a Soviet POW Camp] "No, I didn't. I spent in the Soviet Union no more than five or six weeks, and as a matter of fact at that time I never was telling that I was persecuted by them. On the contrary: We […]https://pljournal.com/743/jan-karski-interviews-part-5/https://pljournal.com/743/jan-karski-interviews-part-5/Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMTE. Thomas Wood[On another Goering encounter] Jan Karski: "This must have been 1934 or 1935. At that time, Polish-German relations very good. Exchange of students. I was in the group of Polish students who went to Germany on the Parteitag– every year there was Parteitag which means 'day of the Nazi party.' Tremendous hullabaloo. Tremendous hall, I […]https://pljournal.com/742/jan-karski-interviews-part-4/https://pljournal.com/742/jan-karski-interviews-part-4/Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMTE. Thomas WoodJan Karski: "At Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow, I enrolled after high school in 1931. Beginning with the second year, I studied in two faculties: Law and diplomatic studies, and got two M.A.s. Diplomatic sciences in 1935, my last year of my studies, the director and professors organized tremendous affair, to which were invited all […]https://pljournal.com/721/trojmiasto-the-polish-window-out-onto-the-world/https://pljournal.com/721/trojmiasto-the-polish-window-out-onto-the-world/Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:23:44 GMTAndrzej GralewskiTrojmiasto (Tri-City). This contemporary term encompasses the three cities of Gdansk, Sopot, and Gdynia, located on the Polish seaside, and, more specifically, in the Gdansk bay. While the Trojmiasto is in effect situated by the sea, allowing for easy access to the beach, not many people are aware of the fact that here, apart from …https://pljournal.com/38/keeping-on-course/https://pljournal.com/38/keeping-on-course/Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:36:23 GMTAgnieszka Flakus“I would like to be the youngest Pole to sail round the globe on my own. It is also my desire to make the general public interested in the problems of the youngest generation and to combine a sporting feat with charity,” declares Natasza Caban who set off on a solitary round-the-world voyage towards the …https://pljournal.com/716/missile-diplomacy-radek-sikorski-interview/https://pljournal.com/716/missile-diplomacy-radek-sikorski-interview/Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:43:30 GMTPatrycja RodzinskaStarted his political involvement during the ’81 Bydgoszcz Strikes. Oxford graduate, he is known for his reports during Afghanistan and Angola wars; advices on investments in Poland and helping Poland with NATO accession. His later posts were with Ministry of Foreign Affairs, American Enterprise Institute of Washington D.C. and as a Director of The New …https://pljournal.com/710/new-york-times-poland/https://pljournal.com/710/new-york-times-poland/Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:11:28 GMTAneta ZadrogaWe discuss politics, culture and freedom of the press in Poland and in the United States with David E. McCraw, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, The New York Times. - You spent the last couple of days in Poland visiting two of our biggest and most important cities: Warsaw and Krakow. You know a …https://pljournal.com/708/neptun-association-tri-city-trojmiasto/https://pljournal.com/708/neptun-association-tri-city-trojmiasto/Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMTEwa UszpolewiczThis is what Zukrowski says about people living in the later grounds of Tricity: ”Families are close-knite, thrifty women are bustling about their houses from dawn to twilight, work is the very essence of life, prosperity, strengthen by the wisdom of generations, stems from work, and there is the force like in a clenched fist. […]