The ‘War Syndrome’: World War II and Polish Society

2016 ◽  
pp. 27-62
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Polish Society

Ubi Lenin, Ibi Jerusalem: Illusions and Defeats of Jewish Communists in Polish-Jewish, Post-world War II Literature

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-61
Author(s):  
Laura Quercioli Mincer
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Polish Culture

AbstractOn the basis of an analysis of literary texts by Polish-Jewish authors, the character of the Communist Jews, their motivations and relations to Jewish and Polish culture is described. This topic involves at the same time the forms of Jewish self-representation and self-consciousness, and the role played by Polonized Jews within Polish society. The article opens with a brief sketch of the possible affinities between Jewish Messianism and revolutionary utopia.

From Eugenics to Lysenkoism: The Evolution of Stanisław Skowron

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Dejong-Lambert
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
World War ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The Relationship

This article describes the relationship between Polish geneticist Stanisław Skowron's views on eugenics during the interwar period, his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and his response to Trofim D. Lysenko's ban on genetic research in Soviet-allied states after 1948. Skowron was educated at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation to study in the United States, Italy, Denmark, and Great Britain from 1924 to 1926. His exposure to research being conducted outside of Poland made him an important figure in Polish genetics. During this time Skowron also began to believe that an understanding of biological principles of heredity could play an important role in improving Polish society and became a supporter of eugenics. In 1939 he was arrested along with other faculty members at the Jagiellonian and sent to Sachsenhausen and Dachau. In 1947 he published the first book updating Polish biologists on recent developments in genetics; however, after learning of the outcome of the 1948 session of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Moscow, Skowron emerged as one of the most vocal advocates for Michurinism. I argue that Skowron's conversion to Lysenkoism was motivated by more than fear or opportunism, and is better understood as the product of his need to rationalize his own support for a theory he could not possibly have believed was correct.

scholarly journals Collaboration in a “Land without a Quisling”: Patterns of Cooperation with the Nazi German Occupation Regime in Poland during World War II

Slavic Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus-Peter Friedrich
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
World War ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
History Of

Astonishingly, we still do not have a history of collaboration in Poland during World War II. Klaus-Peter Friedrich shows that the building blocks for such a history already exist, however. They are scattered throughout the contemporary Polish press and studies on the Nazi occupation regime. Examples include institutionalized cooperation (Baudienst, Polish Police), ethnically defined segments of the population (Volksdeutsche), informal support of Nazi projects on ideological common ground (anti- Semitism and anticommunism), and the stance of the Polish peasantry as well as the Roman Catholic Church. Friedrich concludes that collaboration eludes study because of a mental image according to which ethnic Poles were the foremost victims of the occupiers and heroically resisted them. Questionable views of national self-interest keep Polish society from coming to terms with the past. Nevertheless, debates on “Polish collaboration” continue to recur—as they have since 1939.

The coach’s role in shaping the attitudes and values of a competitor in Poland after World War II on the example of Wunderteam

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Bożena Bednarska
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
International Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Sport Philosophy ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Huge Progress

The purpose of this publication is to present the concept of sport philosophy, implemented on the basis of certain values between individuals and trainers – Jan Mulak and the Wunderteam - in historically and politically challenging conditions. The article shows certain values, which were headed via outstanding individual cooperation with other great personalities from the world of sports in a way to fulfill a masterpiece – the Wunderteam. The project of creating Polish athletics team was not a programme of self-improvement of outstanding individuals, but was joint international work, which was to serve the Polish society. That concept of genius of Jan Mulak as a coordinator, and his cooperators, initiated huge progress in Polish sports.

scholarly journals Nadziei Druckiej droga z Rosji do Polski. Studium przypadku akulturacji

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (XXIV) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Jolanta Brzykcy
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
World War ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Literary Community ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Reorientation Process

This article is devoted to Nadzieja Drucka (1898–1986), a Polish writer and translator of Rus-sian literature of Russian origin on her father’s side. Drucka grew up in Russia, in an aristocratic family, thanks to her marriage to a Pole, Maurice O’Brien de Lacy. She found herself in Poland in 1918, where she made an effort to learn the Polish language and culture and to assimilate with Polish society. These attempts proved successful. In the 1920s, Drucka established numer-ous contacts with the Polish literary community and conducted intense literary and social activity. She continued it after World War II, in a new political reality, openly declaring her support for a new political system in Poland.The article traces, on the basis of the writer’s autobiography Three fourths... Memories, the subsequent stages of the cultural reorientation process, as a result of which Poland became Drucka’s second homeland.

scholarly journals Evolution of historical policy in Poland after II World War in the context of treatment of Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Boichuk Boichuk
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
World War ◽  
Polish People ◽  
Ideological Struggle ◽  
The World ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Internal Policy

The research dedicated to the analysis of the evolution of historical policy in Poland after the World War II. The crucial part of the article is the role of Germany in this process. On the current stage of mutual Polish-German relations, where a remarkable point of political ties is historical conflict over the aftermath of the World War II. The evolution process of the historical process in Poland is complicated and complexed. Furthermore, the evolution of the historical narrative goes in a shadow of the ideological struggle between two blocks, which had been established after the war. It is need to point the international aspect of historical policy establishing in Poland had one point of view. On the other hand, internarial factors played the crucial role, which were attached at that time for Polish society.The aim of the research is an analysis of the process of historical policy establishing in the Polish People’s Republic and research of main elements in this process. The context of the last events in Polish-German relations is heightening the role of conflict in the sphere of political history over the aftermath of the World War II. It arises the necessity to analyze more deeply the process of historical policy establishing in Poland.It had been established that the historical policy in the Polish People`s Republic was used as the instrument of internal policy and propaganda. The historical policy played two main functions is the integration and the stabilization. The function of integration is used to unite Polish society on the background of the stereotype “Germans – enemy” and for confirmation of new western territories (Ziem odzyskanych). At the same time, the historical policy led to the approval of a new sociopolitical order in Poland at that time. It is noted that historical policy in Poland has few approaches dedicated to periodization and mostly it depends on the area of research. Social researchers divide historical policy after the World War II into two periods. In contrast to social science, representatives of Political Science divide into three periods.

scholarly journals Destrukcja jako tworzywo. Ikonografia ruin Warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po II wojnie światowej

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Kosma Cieśliński
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Persuasive Argument ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
Ideological Attitudes ◽  
The City

The image of Warsaw in ruins after World War II is an important motif in Polish documentary and feature cinema in the years 1944–1956. In the text, I discuss the images of the city captured by the first chroniclers as ‘basic’, which then became archetypical icons of the city’s destruction. I point out that the aesthetics of destruction, recorded in Andrzej Panufnik’s early film Ballada f-moll [Ballade in f minor], Jerzy Bossak’s Most [Bridge] and Tadeusz Makarczyński’s Suita warszawska [Warsaw Suite] proved to be exemplary for other artists. I show that the destruction of urban and architectural structures was inspiring for directors: it served as a documentary record, a basis forconstructing scripts, and dominant aesthetic, often providing a persuasive argument and serving to shape emotions. References to the resentments of the audience and the anatomy of the ruins were among the elements that shaped the ideological attitudes of various parts of Polish society. For some directors it was also a catharsis after the trauma of the Holocaust.

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