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“This was not America.” Michael Charles Steinlauf in conversation with Elżbieta Janicka (Warsaw – New York – Warsaw, 2014–2015)Born in Paris in 1947, Michael Charles Steinlauf talks about his childhood in New York City, in the south of Brooklyn (Brighton Beach), in a milieu of Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors. His later experiences were largely associated with American counterculture, the New Left,...
Review of a book by Katarzyna Wrzesińska, Culture and civilization in the thought of National Democratic Party (1893–1918). Between the educational idea and politics, Warszawa: Instytut Slawistyki PAN, Fundacja Slawistyczna 2012, pp. 377.The book by Katarzyna Wrzesińska, a historian of ideas and Polish political thought of the 19th and 20th centuries, a researcher of the Institute of Slavic Studies...
To Recover Liberalism. Review of a book by Andrzej Walicki Od projektu komunistycznego do neoliberalnej utopii (From the Communist Project to the Neoliberal Utopia), Warszawa: Universitas 2013This review discusses a recent book by Andrzej Walicki, Od projektu komunistycznego do neoliberalnej utopii (From the Communist Project to the Neoliberal Utopia) (Warszawa: Universitas 2013). The book features a...
The Last PositivistThe polemics between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was originally published in Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews no 40/4 as Debate on International Sociology. The starting point of discussion between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was the publication entitled Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology (Volume One: Introduction, Latin America...
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and the blood libel, or is being a Jewish writer compulsoryThe article concerns Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s medieval stories which explore the theme of blood libel. Despite Grudziński’s self-declared sympathy for the libel’s Jewish victims, his treatment of the theme is selective and only reflects the Christian perspective. The author then considers possible reasons for such...
Pamiątka, Zabawka, Talizman / Souvenir, Talisman, Toy (an exhibition in Cracow’s Ethnographic Museum, 2013, prepared by Erica Lehrer)The article is a review of the exhibition Pamiątka, Zabawka, Talizman / Souvenir, Toy, Talisman, which opened at the Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Cracow on 30 June 2013, during the Jewish Culture Festival. The exhibition was curated by Erica Lehrer.Pamiątka,...
Memory acquired. The conception of the Polish experience of the Holocaust as collective trauma in the light of a revision of the concept of bystanderThe paper provides a reconstruction and proposes the deconstruction of the conception of the Polish experience of the Holocaust as collective trauma. The analytical framework is based on the revision of concepts such as Polish witness (bystander/onlooker...
"Objectivity fetish." Our Class by Tadeusz SłobodzianekOur Class was received in Poland with enthusiasm. The author was praised for his courage and his voice was considered a balanced part of the Jedwabne pogrom discussion, taking place in Poland since 2000. Why this enthusiasm now, when the publication of the Neighbours was received without it? What changes to narration about Jedwabne provided...
A few seconds. Konstanty Gebert in a conversation with Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Elżbieta Janicka and Anna ZawadzkaIn 2012–2013, Poland was discussing ritual slaughter. Its adversaries claimed that the kind of animal slaughtering that makes the animal meat kosher and halal, causes extra suffering to animals and therefore should be banned. However, the postulate of banning ritual slaughter in Poland is...
Jews in the discourse of the Catholic ChurchThe article describes the most important changes which appeared after the Second Vatican Council in the discourse of the Catholic Church in reference to its attitude to confessors of Judaism. The change is the difference between the state of texts in two different moments, which is why the first part of the article is dedicated to the characteristics of...
PoemsKwiatkowski’s poems resemble the spirit of The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, The Chronicles of the Town of Pornic by Czesław Miłosz, and uprising poems by Anna Świrszczyńska. The author is interested in the mask lyric and attempts to lead his poetry in to the domain of fact, while neither leaving the sphere of poetry nor entering the sphere of journalism. WierszePoezja utrzymana...
Souvenir, Talisman, Toy or phantom JewsThe exhibition Souvenir, Talisman, Toy, prepared by Erica Lehrer and shown in Cracow’s Ethnographic Museum in Summer 2013, deals with the phenomena of Jew figures production and currently extremely popular the "Jew with a coin" image. The phenomenon bears full characteristics of folk art. However, it is Holocaust that took place in Poland during the...
The rules of the reservation. On the book Jewish Poland Revisited by Erica Lehrer The paper offers a review of Erica Lehrer’s Jewish Poland Revisited, a publication presenting outcomes of an anthropological research on Jewish-Polish memory projects in Cracow's former Jewish district of Kazimierz. In a discussion of the book's theses, the author critically analyses Lehrer's postulate of 'ethnography...
History of Afro-GermansThe purpose of article History of Afro-Germans is to shad more light on the history of Afro-Germans of the last eight decades. I raise here issues like: social inclusion and exclusion, national affiliation, acceptance, self-identification and social categorization, stigmatization, discrimination based on racial background. I describe how this group has been perceived by the...
Another sociological utopia The polemics between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was originally published in Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews no 40/4 as Debate on International Sociology. The starting point of discussion between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was the publication entitled Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology (Volume One: Introduction, Latin...
“So what?” Bożena Keff, Magda Szcześniak, Tomasz Tomasik & Błażej Warkocki in a conversation with Anna ZawadzkaIn April 2013, the Polish Press Agency published an article in which Elżbieta Janicka proposed a new interpretations of Stones on the barricades. She claimed i.a.: ”Since we are deliberating, placed in a ho-mophobic culture, where questioning someone’s heterosexual orientation is not...
Andrzej Draguła Bluźnierstwo. Między grzechem a przestępstwem (Blasphemy: between sin and offence) – a book review by Jakub DąbrowskiThe text is a review of the book Bluźnierstwo. Między grzechem a przestępstwem by Andrzej Draguła, a priest and Doctor of Theology. He reflects on the conflict between Catholic orthodoxy and liberal social practices in the domains of art and visual culture. Apart from...
Violence and religion. Blasphemy in Islam presented on Polish web portals The aim of the paper is to analyse the representations of blasphemy in Islam presented on popular Polish web portals. Critical Discourse Analysis was applied. The analysis included representations of the blasphemy cases and of the accused, both male and female. The analysed material was interpreted in the light of Judith Butler...
„I cannot be a priest of a district God.” An interview with Rev. Wojciech Lemański by Joanna Tokarska-Bakir and Michał Pawilno-PacewiczOver the past few years the Polish media have informed about disagreements between Rev. Wojciech Lemański and the Polish Catholic Church hierarchy. In the interview in 2013, Rev. Wojciech Lemański told us about the reasons of his conflict and persecutions within the...
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