Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

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"Gdybym znał dobrze język polski…" Wybór tekstów z ćwiczeniami do nauki gramatyki polskiej dla cudzoziemców

Author(s): Marek Gołkowski,Anna Kiermut,Maria Kuc,Małgorzata Majewska-Meyers / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2018

A handbook of the Polish language for foreigners – beginners and intermediate students. It includes 40 methodological units devoted to the basic Polish grammar issues, the key to exercises enabling the students to work with the handbook on their own, and an example test on grammatical correctness.

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"Я не враг церкви, а еë друг и уверенный православный": церковная проблематика в публицистике Николая Лескова

Author(s): Marta Łukaszewicz / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 2019

The book contains analysis of the way of presenting issues essential for the life of the Orthodox Church in the 19th-century Russia in Nikolai Leskov’s journalistic works. Writer’s literary output is discussed in its historical and social context, against the background of contemporary press discussions. It reveals a bond between his spiritual quest, the emerging modern religiosity and changes taking place in the Church. It also allows to highlight similarities and differences between Leskov and his contemporaries and to trace the evolution of the writer’s views.

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"Я не враг церкви, а еë друг… и уверенный православный": церковная проблематика в публицистике Николая Лескова

Author(s): Marta Łukaszewicz / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 2019

The book contains analysis of the way of presenting issues essential for the life of the Orthodox Church in the 19th-century Russia in Nikolai Leskov’s journalistic works. Writer’s literary output is discussed in its historical and social context, against the background of contemporary press discussions. It reveals a bond between his spiritual quest, the emerging modern religiosity and changes taking place in the Church. It also allows to highlight similarities and differences between Leskov and his contemporaries and to trace the evolution of the writer’s views.

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6th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics. 25 June - 2 July 2016 Sandomierz, Poland

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2017

The 6th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics took place in Sandomierz from June 25 to July 2, 2016. The primary goal of each of our invited speakers was to give a series of lectures which – in a pedagogical way – introduced selected topics in modern statistical physics with the idea of arriving at open problems. The idea was to inspire the audience to make research related to presented topics.The lectures were given by distinguished physicists: Bernard Derrida: Collège de France & École Normale Supérieure, Siegfried Dietrich: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & University of Stuttgart, L. Mahadevan: Harvard University, Kim Sneppen: University of Copenhagen, Herbert Spohn: Technische University München, Daniel Ueltschi: University of Warwick. The present volume contains the lecture notes which the invited speakers kindly agreed to publish.

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A Brief Outline of the History of English

Author(s): Jerzy Wełna / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2003

The book contains a brief account of the history of the English language as well as its variants in the British Isles and overseas. In order to illustrate the problems under discussion the author adduces text samples from documents relating to English history and literature and also translations of some difficult words and phrases.

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A Dictionary of Film Terms and Film Studies

Author(s): Andrzej Weseliński / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2014

his dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the discipline of film studies, including key theoretical and technical terms, overviews of film genres and movements, film adaptations of literature, the Hollywood studio system, film industry practices, and the impact of digital technologies in cinema.

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Akt pamięci. Tradycja akatystowa w kontekście form pamięci

Author(s): Aleksandra Jakóbczyk-Gola / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2014

The book identifies complex characteristic features of the media tradition of Akathists, based on the example of the text of the Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God and its performances as part of worship. An analysis of the complex functions fulfilled by the Akathist in serving the aims of remembering – often characterized by heterogeneity, accomplished in different ways and playing different roles. The Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God with its accompanying icon was one of the fundamental elements of Orthodox worship, influential also outside the Orthodox Church, e.g., in Polish territories.

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Aleksander Gieysztor w pamięci i badaniach historycznych

Author(s): Alicja Kulecka / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2017

The publication was inspired by the celebrations of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Professor Aleksander Gieysztor (2016). It contains memoir texts and essays written as a result of the deep scientific reflection on the work of this outstanding scholar. Most papers are devoted to Aleksander Gieysztor as the director of the Institute of History at the University of Warsaw. The book also discusses Professor’s role in shaping the ceremonial of the University of Warsaw.

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Antropologia pamięci. Zagadnienia i wybór tekstów

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2018

An anthology of translations of several dozen texts on various aspects of memory studies as a modern field of research and anthropological reflection. The texts present the problem of cultural memory in the context of anthropology of the body, things, media, space, as well as different types of social and historical anthropology.

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Antropologia tańca

Author(s): Anya Peterson Royce / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2014

In her dance studies, conducted from an anthropological perspective, Royce combines her own experiences of dance with ethnographical knowledge and knowledge of culture, which enables her to situate dance within other performative arts. The publication is a textbook for theatre studies students, ethnologists exploring the topic of rituals and central-American rites, students of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as practitioners analysing dance in action (instructors, choreographers) or specialists in dance therapy.

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Antytrynitaryzm w Pierwszej Rzeczypospolitej w kontekście europejskim. Źródła – rozwój – oddziaływanie. Tom X

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2017

The authors present the complex relations between the Polish antitrinitarians (Polish brothers called Arians or Socinians) and representatives of other denominations functioning in the 16th and 17th centuries in the territory of the First Polish Republic. They attempt to place this community in the context of debates and disputes taking place in Europe then. The texts focus on the axiological issues present in the discourse of the representatives of the Polish Brethren and contacts with the European thought.

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Apollinaire à travers l'Europe

Author(s): / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 2015

Result of the reflection of researchers from several countries (France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland), the volume brings together studies on the presence of Europe (in the geographical and cultural sense) in the work of Apollinaire. The articles deal also with the major themes of European literature reflected in his writings, with reception of his work in Europe as well as with specific issues of its influence or resonance in Poland.

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Archeologia zatroskania. Staropolskie kalendarze w działaniu

Author(s): Ada Arendt / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2019

An analysis of Old Polish astrological almanacs that combines various scholarly traditions, such as elements of microhistory, anthropology of print and literacy, or the sociological theory of time. The author focuses on an anthropological understanding of the cultural practice and its implications for the functioning of memory, rationality and self-reflection, as well as the perception of time.

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Archiwistyka cyfrowa i nauki pomocnicze historii w edukacji archiwalnej. Problemy dydaktyki archiwistyki

Author(s): Alicja Kulecka / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2016

A collection of studies on, among others, developing the competences of archivists in the context of needs and social functions of archives, new trends in education and their application to teaching archiving and educating “digital archivists”. The publication also discusses programs of auxiliary sciences of history and their role in educating archivists.

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Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 06, Generalne Gubernatorstwo. Relacje i dokumenty

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2012

The volume concerns the fate of the Jewish population in the General Government four districts: Cracow, Lublin, Radom, and Warsaw. It includes testimonies, memoirs, personal documents and official records, such as German ordinances, reports and transcripts of the proceedings of the Jewish Councils, Jewish Social Aid and the American Joint Distribution Committee. The documents cover the period from September and October 1939 to some time after November 1942; there are also memoirs that touch upon the pre-war period.

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Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 07. Spuścizny

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2012

The volume consists of materials deposited in the ARG by Emmanuel Ringelblum’s closest collaborators: writer and journalist Rachela Auerbach, lawyer and economist Hersz Wasser, teacher Eliasz Gutkowski, and the Archive’s treasurer, entrepreneur Menachem Mendel Kon. Letters, certificates and fragments of notes are testimony to the work of the Archive, the everyday life of its collaborators and through this – to the experience of Jewish intellectuals in the ghetto. The last chapter contains patents of inventors Henryk Piórnik and Wacław Kączkowski issued by the Polish and foreign patent offices.

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Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 08. Tereny wcielone do Rzeszy: Okręg Rzeszy Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie, rejencja ciechanowska, Górny Śląsk

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2012

The volume pertains to the fate of the Jews in the areas of Poland incorporated into the Reich: the Danzig-West Prussia Reich District, Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Ciechanów Governorate) and the Province of Upper Silesia. It consists mainly of the testimonies of refugees who had been forced to abandon their homes and of the persons involved in relocating Jews to the General Government. The majority of documents concerns the period from the first days of the war until February and March 1941. They illustrate mainly everyday life but also include reminiscences from before the war, sketches from the history of the given towns, or accounts of the war preparations.

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Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 09. Tereny wcielone do Rzeszy: Kraj Warty

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2012

The volume pertains to the fate of the Jewish population in Wartheland (mainly Koło, Kutno, Kalisz and Włocławek), excluding the city of Lodz. The majority of testimonies concerns the period from the first days of the war until March/April 1942. They describe crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in the period of Military Administration (until October 1939), the first anti-Jewish directives of the Civil Administration (e.g. the order to create the Judenrats and the ghettoes), as well as the forced resettlement of Jews to the General Government. Many documents include recollections from the pre-war period or sketches from the history of the given cities (especially interesting for Inowrocław and Kutno).

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Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 10. Losy Żydów łódzkich (1939-1942)

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2013

The volume contains the documents of the fates of the Lodz Jews in the years 1939–1942, mainly reports, memoirs and letters but also poetry and official announcements. The first part of the volume presents the situation from the last days of August 1939 until the establishment of the ghetto in February 1940. The second part includes the texts on the living conditions in the ghetto. A significant part are announcements and decrees issued by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski completed by the description of the official ghetto currency, official prints, and the calendar for the year 1942 published in the ghetto.

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Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 11. Ludzie i prace "Oneg Szabat"

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2013

The volume pertains directly to the activities of Oneg Shabbat: the organization itself, its members, its research and archival works There are drafts, schemes and questionnaires used to collect data destined to be used in the uncompleted monograph Two-and-a-half years. Some materials concern underground press services of Oneg Shabbat: bulletins and “Wiadomości ARG” [ARG Information]). There are also the most important documents of Oneg Shabbat dealing with the annihilation of Jews: reports, based on witness testimonies and official files collected in ARG, which were smuggled out of the ghetto and abroad, to the Polish government-in-exile and to the Allies.

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