http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19483 2026-06-01T17:24:29Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19529 Tytuł: Czasopismo „Niwa” w dokumentach WUKPPiW w Białymstoku z lat 1956–1957 Autorzy: Chwiedosik, Helena Abstrakt: This article draws on documents preserved in the Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw (from the collection of the Main Office for the Control of Press, Publications, and Performances) and the State Archives in Białystok (from the collection of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, Propaganda Department). The author examines the origins and aspirations of the weekly Niwa, established by the Belarusian Socio-Cultural Association, which brought together people of Belarusian descent living in Poland. Based on an analysis of these primary sources, the study reconstructs how the ideological principles adopted by the editorial board were implemented and how the magazine’s objectives were pursued. It also explores the nature of Niwa’s relations with the Białystok branch of the Main Office for the Control of Press, Publications, and Performances. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19528 Tytuł: Blaski i cienie księgarsko-wydawniczej działalności Józefa Joachima Okońskiego w świetle korespondencji z Elizą Orzeszkową Autorzy: Lekan-Mrzewka, Joanna Abstrakt: This article contributes to research on Warsaw’s bookselling practices in the second half of the nineteenth century by presenting previously unknown archival sources - among them Okoński’s letters to Kraszewski - and an epistolary dialogue between Okoński and one of the leading writers of Polish Positivism. It emphasizes both the documentary value of these materials and the historical significance of Okoński himself - a figure now almost forgotten, yet once regarded as the proprietor of one of Warsaw’s most modern and best-stocked bookstores. Through an analysis of these archival records, the study sheds new light on the mechanisms of book distribution, the promotion of foreign literature, and the role of the bookseller-publisher in shaping readership, thereby making a significant contribution to the historiography of the Polish book market. The appended set of letters from Okoński to Orzeszkowa not only attests to the writer’s deliberate search for reading material but also offers incidental insights into the condition of Polish bookselling in the latter half of the nineteenth century. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19523 Tytuł: Czas i przestrzeń w geo(bio)graficznej epifanii twarzy Autorzy: Kaczmarek, Jacek; Sójka, Dagmara Abstrakt: The article reflects on the geo(bio)graphic experience inscribed upon the human face, understood not merely as an anatomical part of the body but also as a form of relationality between the human being and the world. Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of dialogue, the authors argue through various literary examples that the face often serves as a record of the individual’s relationship with the world, preserving traces left by events occurring within a specific time and space. The epiphany of the face thus invites its perception as a geo(bio)graphic text and opens the way for an analysis of the phenomenon referred to as the poetics of the face. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19522 Tytuł: Obraz wschodnioeuropejskiego Żyda w piśmiennictwie żydowskich pisarzy niemieckojęzycznych dwudziestolecia międzywojennego Autorzy: Niemirowski, Wieńczysław Abstrakt: The verbal categorization of the Jewish population into Eastern and Western Jews emerged in German-speaking regions at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This division was primarily based on attitudes toward assimilation, with Eastern Jews generally less inclined to assimilate than their Western counterparts. Eastern Jewish identity was expressed through distinctive attire, language, and speech, and was often perceived by assimilated German Jews as culturally foreign. Consequently, their organizations were largely closed to newcomers from the East, and Jewish migration was viewed negatively within German Jewish circles. A significant shift in the perception of Eastern Jews occurred through the writings and translations of the Zionist thinker Martin Buber, who popularized East European Hasidism. This role of cultural mediation was further advanced by the journals “Ost und West” (1901–1922) and “Der Jude” (1916–1927), as well as by the publishing house Jüdischer Verlag. In the 1920s, authors such as Arnold Zweig, Alfred Döblin, and Joseph Roth also contributed to the dissemination and appreciation of East European Jewish culture. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z