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In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik—one of Europe's leading dissidents—traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist ...
In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik—one of Europe's leading dissidents—traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist ...
"Jacobson's book impressively lives up to its stark and splendid title, which borrows Special Sorrows from the Polish Jewish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg's capsule description of the bonds uniting peo...
Edited by Irena Grudzinska gross Foreword by: Ken Jowitt Book Description: A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprison...
"An exeptionally powerful book...Milosz's personal involvement, his spontaneity and freshness combined with erudition and knowledge of history, philosophy, literature and life...always enlightens an...
Translated and Edited by: Barbara Harshav "The organizing force behind this Jewish army, and certainly the embodiment of its defiant spirit, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known everywhere by his code na...
Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked him with such influential dire...
"This is an essential book for scholars of modernism who are eager, in the wake of post-structuralist and post-modernist reevaluations of the construction of modernism's history, to broaden discussion...
"Czesław Miłosz's autobiography, little noticed when it appeared in 1968, is now republished because he won the Nobel Prize. Good: it is a powerful book we should have read earlier. ...we can readil...