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Translated by Lillian Vallee Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Ar...
Translated by Lillian Vallee Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Ar...
Translated from the Hebrew and edited by Barbara Harshav "In the first three days [of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising], the Germans didn't take a single Jew out of the buildings. After their attempts...
In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mi...
The 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians taken prisoner by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 were held in three special NKVD camps and executed at ...
Translated by Barbara Harshav From Publishers Weekly: As Dobroszycki, who left Poland in 1969 and is a historian at Yeshiva University in New York City, verifies in his seminal study, the term `...
Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments: This riveting memoir, a primary source for the NBC miniseries Uprising, tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defy the...
Review Jan T. Gross 1 : "This book is utterly original, and its scholarship-and I don't use this word lightly-is breathtaking. Shore has produced a penetrating study of a host of the twentieth ce...
Translated by: Danuta Borchardt Foreword by: Susan Sontag In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoo...