The Polish Dilemma

Author : Lawrence S Graham,Maria K Ciechocinska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000304404

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The Polish Dilemma by Lawrence S Graham,Maria K Ciechocinska Pdf

Although much has been written about contemporary Poland, discussions that provide a balanced assessment of the current situation are in short supply. To correct that problem, this book offers a cross-section of intellectual opinion within Poland, including original research and works of synthesis that draw on Polish research and writing that have been, for the most part, inaccessible to scholars outside Poland. The contributors' views avoid the extremes of condemnation or defense of the system and make possible a more complete understanding of present-day realities. Their perspectives are moderated by the fact that, although the authors recognize the need for reform and change, they also take into consideration the great constraints facing all who would confront serious national issues. The discussions range from examinations of social structure and class to evaluations of the significance of the state apparatus in the analysis of policy and assessments of economic performance.

Author : Lawrence S. Graham,Maria K. Ciechocinska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367294826

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The Polish Dilemma by Lawrence S. Graham,Maria K. Ciechocinska Pdf

Although much has been written about contemporary Poland, discussions that provide a balanced assessment of the current situation are in short supply. To correct that problem, this book offers a cross-section of intellectual opinion within Poland, including original research and works of synthesis that draw on Polish research and writing that have been, for the most part, inaccessible to scholars outside Poland. The contributors' views avoid the extremes of condemnation or defense of the system and make possible a more complete understanding of present-day realities. Their perspectives are moderated by the fact that, although the authors recognize the need for reform and change, they also take into consideration the great constraints facing all who would confront serious national issues. The discussions range from examinations of social structure and class to evaluations of the significance of the state apparatus in the analysis of policy and assessments of economic performance.

Author : William Gutteridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Poland
ISBN : UOM:39015047751501

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The Polish Dilemma by William Gutteridge Pdf

Author : John Brown Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B3931198

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The Danzig Dilemma; a Study in Peacemaking by Compromise by John Brown Mason Pdf

From the John Holmes Library collection.

Author : Halik Kochanski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674071056

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The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski Pdf

The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last. The conflict was brutal, as Polish armies battled the enemy on four different fronts. It was on Polish soil that the architects of the Final Solution assembled their most elaborate network of extermination camps, culminating in the deliberate destruction of millions of lives, including three million Polish Jews. In The Eagle Unbowed, Halik Kochanski tells, for the first time, the story of Poland's war in its entirety, a story that captures both the diversity and the depth of the lives of those who endured its horrors. Most histories of the European war focus on the Allies' determination to liberate the continent from the fascist onslaught. Yet the "good war" looks quite different when viewed from Lodz or Krakow than from London or Washington, D.C. Poland emerged from the war trapped behind the Iron Curtain, and it would be nearly a half-century until Poland gained the freedom that its partners had secured with the defeat of Hitler. Rescuing the stories of those who died and those who vanished, those who fought and those who escaped, Kochanski deftly reconstructs the world of wartime Poland in all its complexity-from collaboration to resistance, from expulsion to exile, from Warsaw to Treblinka. The Eagle Unbowed provides in a single volume the first truly comprehensive account of one of the most harrowing periods in modern history.

Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786732852

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Shtetl by Eva Hoffman Pdf

In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Brafsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence -- still relevant to us today -- attempted in the eight centuries of Polish-Jewish history, and describes the forces which influenced Christian villagers' decisions to conceal or betray their Jewish neighbors in the dark period of the Holocaust.

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857453570

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Polish Film and the Holocaust by Marek Haltof Pdf

During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and does so through a detailed treatment of several films, which the author frames in relation to the political, ideological, and cultural contexts of the times in which they were created. Following the chronological development of Polish Holocaust films, the book begins with two early classics: Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage (1948) and Aleksander Ford’s Border Street (1949), and next explores the Polish School period, represented by Andrzej Wajda’s A Generation (1955) and Andrzej Munk’s The Passenger (1963). Between 1965 and 1980 there was an “organized silence” regarding sensitive Polish-Jewish relations resulting in only a few relevant films until the return of democracy in 1989 when an increasing number were made, among them Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Decalogue 8 (1988), Andrzej Wajda’s Korczak (1990), Jan Jakub Kolski’s Keep Away from the Window (2000), and Roman Polański’s The Pianist (2002). An important contribution to film studies, this book has wider relevance in addressing the issue of Poland’s national memory.

Author : Barbara J. Falk
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155211164

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The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe by Barbara J. Falk Pdf

Discusses one of the major currents leading to the fall of communism. Falk examines the intellectual dissident movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary from the late 1960s through to 1989. In spite of its historic significance, no other comprehensive survey has appeared on the subject. In addition to the huge list of written sources from samizdat works to recent essays, Falks sources include interviews with many personalities of those events as well as videos and films (including Oscar winners).

Author : Przemysław Kaczmarek,Krzysztof J. Kaleta,Paweł Łabieniec,Marcin Pieniążek,Paweł Skuczyński,Sebastian Sykuna
Publisher : Wydawnictwo C.H.Beck
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788381580403

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The Concept of Dilemma in Legal and Judicial Ethics by Przemysław Kaczmarek,Krzysztof J. Kaleta,Paweł Łabieniec,Marcin Pieniążek,Paweł Skuczyński,Sebastian Sykuna Pdf

Judges and lawyers have to shape their moral competences in order to maintain their professional ethics at a high standard if they want to effectively meet the challenges that modern society will throw at them. This requirement is due to the growing expectation that they will be socially and morally responsible for the law. Thus, the need to place ethics at the heart of legal education, and to make ethical reflection pervasive in academic courses, becomes more obvious every day. Using the concept and examples of moral dilemmas is a way of facilitating this task. The main purpose of this book is to analyse the concept of moral dilemma in context of judicial and legal ethics, and to provide material for legal education. The structure of this book is designed with this double aim in mind. The theoretical part presents the concept of dilemmas on grounds of metaethics and the perspectives for its application in a professional legal context. The former encompasses situations of conflict of duties or obligations, in which the choice of one conduct necessarily prevents a different conduct, and therefore leads to an unacceptable outcome. Hence, the situation of dilemma always involves an issue of moral responsibility and the problem of “dirty hands”. How such situations are present in legal practice and how to deal with them is the main concern of this part. The considerations are divided into three levels of reflection – deontological, axiological, and moral responsibility. The practical part of the book contains an overview of 150 dilemmas that can be useful in legal ethics or other legal courses. The dilemmas are divided into chapters covering the following branches of law: criminal law, civil and commercial law, family and custody law, labour and social security law, and constitutional law. Every dilemma presents a description of the facts, a reconstruction of dilemma, its standard solution and some critical remarks from a meta-ethical perspective. The dilemmas cover situations regularly met in everyday practice, as well as examples of more exceptional challenges in connection with constitutional crises that have occurred in Poland in recent years.

Author : Antony Polonsky,Hanna Węgrzynek,Andrzej Zbikowski
Publisher : Jews of Poland
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 8395237855

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New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands by Antony Polonsky,Hanna Węgrzynek,Andrzej Zbikowski Pdf

This volume is made up of essays first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is divided into two sections. The first deals with museological questions--the voices of the curators, comments on the POLIN museum exhibitions and projects, and discussions on Jewish museums and education. The second examines the current state of the historiography of the Jews on the Polish lands from the first Jewish settlement to the present day. Making use of the leading scholars in the field from Poland, Eastern and Western Europe, North America, and Israel, the volume provides a definitive overview of the history and culture of one of the most important communities in the long history of the Jewish people.

Author : Anita Prazmowska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521483859

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Britain and Poland 1939-1943 by Anita Prazmowska Pdf

Poland was a problematic issue for the Big Powers throughout the Second World War. For Britain, Poland was a major stumbling block in British-Soviet relations as Polish-Soviet territorial disputes clashed with the needs of the British-Soviet-United States alliance. As the Polish government-in-exile attempted to obtain a guarantee of British support, and many thousands of Polish troops fought for the British cause, the perception grew that the Churchill government had a debt to pay. Ultimately, however, it was a debt which Britain could not discharge because of its dependence on Soviet participation in the war. In this book Anita Prazmowska looks at British policies from the point of view of wartime strategy, relating this to Polish government expectations and policies. She describes a tragic situation where Polish soldiers were trapped between the grandiose and unrealistic plans of their government and the harsh realities of a war which they fought with no prospect of a satisfactory outcome for them or their country.

Author : Joanna Wojdon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040031056

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Polish American History after 1939 by Joanna Wojdon Pdf

This book is the second in a three-part, multi-authored study of Polish American history which aims to present the history of Polish Americans in the United States from the beginning of Polish presence on the continent to the current times, shown against a broad historical background of developments in Poland, the United States and other locations of the Polish Diaspora. According to the 2010 US Census, there are 9.5 million persons who identify themselves as Polish Americans in the United States, making them the eighth largest ethnic group in the country today. Polish Americans, or Polonia for short, has always been one of the largest immigrant and ethnic groups and the largest Slavic group in America. Despite that, common knowledge about its social and political life, culture and economy is still inadequate – in Academia and among the Polish Americans themselves. The book discusses the major themes in Polish American history, such as organizational life and the structure of the community facing subsequent waves of immigration from Poland, its leadership and political involvement in Polish and American affairs, as well as living and working conditions, and the everyday life of families and communities, their culture, ethnic identity and relations with the broadly understood American society, starting from the outbreak of World War 2 in Poland in September, 1939, and ending with the highlights of the 21st-century developments. It depicts Polish Americans’ transition from a ‘minority’ through ‘ethnic’ group to Americans who take pride in their symbolic ethnicity, maintained intentionally and manifested occasionally. This volume will be of great value to students and scholars alike interested in Polish and American History and Social and Cultural History.

Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1594200823

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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan Pdf

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year Winner of the James Beard Award Author of How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2993317

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The New Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Debts, External
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045177958

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Polish Debt by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Pdf