Resisting English Hegemony examines explores history of teaching/learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in pre and post-communist Poland, EFL teachers’ testimonies, methodologies and tools avail
In National Judges as EU law Judges: The Polish Civil Law System Urszula Jaremba examines the way civil judges in Poland function as decentralised EU judges. To this end, the author employs legal and
Pleszczynski (medieval history, M. Curie-Sklodowska U., Lublin, Poland) explores the origins of the Western European perception of Slavs as inferior by taking as a case study German writing about Pole
A Jewish boy kills a Nazi by the Polish ghetto. He must escape the Third Reich, at all costs. In early 1940 Chaim Herzsman was locked in to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry, fearless and determined, he goes on scavenging missions outside the wire limits, until he is forced to kill a Nazi guard. That moment changes the course of his life, and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines. Escape from the Ghetto is about a normal boy who faced extermination by the Nazis in the ghetto or a Nazi deathcamp, and the extraordinary life he led in avoiding that fate. It's a bittersweet story about epic hope, beauty amidst horror, and the triumph of the human spirit.John Carr is Henry Carr's eldest son, and in Escape From the Ghetto he has recreated his father's incredible adventure, through recordings and transcribed conversations in later life.For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Saboteur of Auschwitz and The Volunteer, this is the incredible true story of escape from the Na
Moczanow (logic and methodology of science, Rzeszow U., Poland) points out an unbridgeable gap between the notion of quantificational truth expressed by German mathematician and philosopher Gottlob Fr
In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coas
A translation of Disneyland, by satiric Polish novelist Stanislaw Dygat. Stanislaw Dygat is known in Poland as a writer of gently satiric "light" novels and short stories. "His stance is one of deli
Skapska (sociology of law, Jagiellonian U., Poland) presents a sociological analysis of constitutionalism in East Central Europe after the collapse of communism. Arguing that the construction of post-
In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis,
Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several late medieval and European regions (England, Poland, Italy,
An investigation into the various ways in which Renaissance writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves in Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the D
This volume contains a critical edition of the work (in Hebrew) as well as contextual scholarship in English. Zawanowski (Hebrew studies, U. of Warsaw, Poland) offers a comprehensive study of Yefet (1
Roald Dahl flew planes in the Second World War (1939-1945) when Germany, Italy and Japan fought against Britain, France, Poland, other European countries, the USSR and the United States of America. Go
The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 plunged the world into its second global conflict. The Third Reich's attack, mounted without consulting its Italian ally, had other reverberations as well. Chief am
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) was one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. His significance extends far beyond his native Poland: his classical music was premiered by internation
