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Culture in Poland: Guide

Writing and Literature by Polish authors

Forefathers' Eve book cover

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Solaris book cover

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PG7158 .L39 S613 1987

Pan Tadeusz : The Last Foray in Lithuania book cover

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Summa Technologiae book cover

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Polish History and Culture

Being Poland : A New History of Polish Literature and Culture Since 1918 book cover

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Poland: The First Thousand Years book cover

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Poland Under Communism : A Cold War History book cover

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Poland in the Twentieth Century book cover

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DK4382 .S73 1999

A Fateful Triangle : Essays on Contemporary Russian, German and Polish History book cover

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The Triumph of Provocation book cover

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The Archaeology of Early Medieval Poland : Discoveries – Hypotheses – Interpretations book cover

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Polish Poetry

Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)
(poems in translation)

Short Stories

  • The Rat, by Witold Gombrowicz (1939)

Videos

  • Hidden Poland (PBS, 2020, 56 minutes) This one-hour special hosted by CBS News Travel Editor Peter Greenberg gives viewers a look at Poland’s enduring culture. Watch Peter take a hot air balloon ride over the 13th century Czocha Castle and glide across the Tatra Mountains.
  • Learn about the history of Poland's changing borders (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2010, 6 minutes) Video illustrating the changes in Poland's territory from the 11th century to present.
  • Coming Out, Polish Style (2013, 1 hour 2 minutes) This film offers a rare look into the lives of "out" gay people in Poland. Despite cultural homophobia, Polish gays and lesbians are finding more and more friendly clubs to attend, and there is a determined core of activists pushing for gay rights at the national level.
  • Magda (2015, 1 hour) As a Polish woman born into a noble family, Magda was a teenager while living in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the early 1940s. Magda was recruited by her brother to become a spy for the Polish Underground Resistance Army during World War II.
  • Polska (Frontline Films, 1990, 52 minutes) Polska is the personal journey of 28 year old Polish journalist Beata Ligmann as she traces her country’s experience from the concentration camps of Auswitz and World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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