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• Introduction
• Histories of Active Aging: Aktywność across Eras
• Aspiring to Activity: Transforming Aging through Education
• Beyond Activity: Sustaining Relations in Institutional Care
• Remembering the Polish Nation: Connections across Third and Fourth Ages
• Rethinking Memory: Everyday Rhythms of Dementia
• Gardens of Memory: Reimagining Home and Nation
• Conclusion.

"Active aging programs that encourage older adults to practice health-promoting behaviors are proliferating worldwide. In Poland, the meanings and ideals of these programs have become caught up in the sociocultural and political-economic changes that have occurred during the lifetimes of the oldest generations-most visibly, the transition from socialism to capitalism. Yet practices of active aging resonate with older forms of activity in late life in ways that exceed these narratives of progress. Moreover, some older Poles come to live valued, meaningful lives in old age despite threats to respect and dignity posed by illness and debility. Through intimate portrayals of a wide range of experiences of aging in Poland, Jessica C. Robbins shows that everyday practices of remembering and relatedness shape how older Poles come to be seen by themselves and by others as living worthy, valued lives. In Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland, we see how memories and understandings of the Polish nation intersect with ideals and experiences of late life to produce forms of life that are not reducible to binary categories of health or illness, independence or dependence, or socialism or capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.

• A Conversation
• On the Edge, In the World
• Democracy as Civilizing Mission
• The Integration Myth
• The Many Meanings of the Border
• Polish Towns? Jewish Towns?
• Depoliticizing the Volhynian Village
• Regionalism, or The Limits of Inclusion
• Thinking Technocratically

As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers descended upon Volhynia, an eastern borderland province that was home to Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews. Its aim was not simply to shore up state power in a place where Poles constituted an ethnic minority, but also to launch an ambitious civilizing mission that would transform a poor Russian imperial backwater into a region that was at once civilized, modern, and Polish. Over the next two decades, these men and women recast imperial hierarchies of global civilization-in which Poles themselves were often viewed as uncivilized-within the borders of their supposedly anti-imperial nation-state. As state institutions remained fragile, long-debated questions of who should be included in the nation re-emerged with new urgency, turning Volhynia's mainly Yiddish-speaking towns and Ukrainian-speaking villages into vital testing grounds for competing Polish national visions. By the eve of World War II, with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union growing in strength, schemes to ensure the loyalty of Jews and Ukrainians by offering them a conditional place in the nation were replaced by increasingly aggressive calls for Jewish emigration and the assimilation of non-Polish Slavs. Drawing on research in local and national archives across four countries and utilizing a vast range of written and visual sources that bring Volhynia to life, On Civilization's Edge offers a highly intimate story of nation-building from the ground up. We eavesdrop on peasant rumors at the Polish-Soviet border, read ethnographic descriptions of isolated marshlands, and scrutinize staged photographs of everyday life. But the book's central questions transcend the Polish case, inviting us to consider how fears of national weakness and competitions for local power affect the treatment of national minorities, how more inclusive definitions of the nation are themselves based on exclusions, and how the very distinction between empires and nation-states is not always clear-cut.
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• Illiberal constitutionalism and the European rule of law / Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała
• The European values and the rule of law / Andrzej Madeja
• Where the laws do not govern, there is no constitution' : on the relationship between the rule of law and constitutionalism / Wojciech Włoch
• The rule of law, democracy and human rights in Hungary : tendencies from 1989 until 2019 / András Jakab and Eszter Bodná
• The rule of law : the Hungarian perspective / Tímea Drinóczi
• The rule of law : the Polish perspective / Iwona Wróblewska
• Rule of law in Hungary : what can law and politics do? / Lóránt Csink
• Safeguarding the European Union's core values : the EU Rule of Law Mission in Poland / Sylwia Majkowska-Szulc
• Are the EU member states still masters of the treaties? : the European rule of law concept as a means of limiting national authorities / Agnieszka Grzelak
• Illiberal legality / Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała

This book challenges the idea that the Rule of Law is still a universal European value given its relatively rapid deterioration in Hungary and Poland, and the apparent inability of the European institutions to adequately address the illiberalization of these Member States. The book begins from the general presumption that the Rule of Law, since its emergence, has been a universal European value, a political ideal and legal conception. It also acknowledges that the EU has been struggling in the area of value enforcement, even if the necessary mechanisms are available and, given an innovative outlook and more political commitment, could be successfully used. The authors appreciate the different approaches toward the Rule of Law, both as a concept and as a measurable indicator, and while addressing the core question of the volume, widely rely on them. Ultimately, the book provides a snapshot of how the Rule of Law ideal has been dismantled and offers a theory of the Rule of Law in illiberal constitutionalism. It discusses why voters keep illiberal populist leaders in power when they are undeniably acting contrary to the Rule of Law ideal. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers engaged with the foundational questions of constitutionalism. The structure and nature of the subject matter covered ensure that the book will be a useful addition for comparative and national constitutional law classes. It will also appeal to legal practitioners wondering about the boundaries of the Rule of Law.
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• Dank
• Abkürzungen
• Diakritische Zeichen, Erläuterungen zur Transkription
• Schreibweisen von fremdsprachigen Namen und Begriffen
• Handschriften, Materialien und Drucke der Reise in Polen
• Emendationen der Neuausgabe 2016
• Alfred Döblins Reise nach Polen : Die Beweggründe für die Reise und deren Bedeutung
• Zur Methode der Textgenetik
• Perspektiven der Forschung
• Alfred Döblins Begegnung mit dem europäischen Osten
• Reise in Polen als eine Zäsur in Döblins Schaffen
• Zur Erzählweise und zum Aufbau der Reise in Polen : Die Frage der Fiktionalität
• Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte der Reise in Polen
• Die zeitgenössische deutsche und deutsch-jüdische Kritik
• Rezensionen zur Neuausgabe 1968 und deren Übersetzungen ins Englische, Italienische und Französische
• Die polnische und polnisch-jüdische Rezeption
• Reise in Polen als Referenztext
• Das dossier génétique (Textzeugen und Materialien)
• Döblins Begegnung mit Polen
• Polen im Jahr 1924
• Döblins Polenreise im Licht der Notizen
• Die Genese der Reise in Polen
• Die Entstehungsgeschichte im Überblick
• Verfahren der Textgestaltung und Literarisierung
• Gestaltung von Schlüsselthemen der Reise in Polen
• Schlussbetrachtung
• Anhang : Zusätzliche Texte
• Alfred Döblin : Der Kopf Polens (Warschau)
• Alfred Döblin : Wirtschaftlicher Umbau des Ostjudentums
• Regina Reicherówna : Bei Alfred Döblin : Kelims aus Zakopane und Scherenschnitte aus Lowicz in Berlin
• Literaturverzeichnis
• Personenregister

• Introduction
• The bridge between the law of obligations and animal ethics
• Contracts aimed at the transfer of property
• Service contracts
• Contracts for the use of someone else's things
• Final remarks

• The free city of Danzig (1921-1937)
• A pogrom German-style (spring 1937)
• Preparing to leave Danzig (summer 1937)
• At the station (September 1937)
• Berlin (September 2-12, 1937)
• Paris (September 1937-September 3, 1939)
• "The phony war" (Paris, September 1939-June 1940)
• The debacle (Paris and Bayonne, June 1940)
• Toulouse (June and July 1940)
• To Marseille, in Marseille (August-September 1940)
• Over the Pyrenees (September 11-13, 1940)
• Walter Benjamin (late September 1940)
• Villa Air-Bel (November 1940-February 1941)
• Mafia (February-June 1941)
• Chagall (Spring 1941)
• Max and Peggy depart (July 1941)
• The expulsion of Fry; my mountain climbing adventure (August-December 1941)
• Grenoble (December 1941-August 26, 1942)
• Internment (August 27-29, 1942)
• Escape (September 6, 1942)
• Underground intelligence at Montmeyran (autumn 1942-March 1943)
• Manna from the skies (November 1943-May 1944)
• Last days on the farm (June 1944)
• Becoming a guerrilla (June 1944)
• Haute cuisine in the camp (June-July 1944)
• The ambush (July 1944)
• The 636th tank destroyer battalion (August-October 1944)
• The Teller mine incident (October 11, 1944)
• Homecoming to Paris (December 1944-February 15, 1945)
• Granville (February 15-March 8, 1945)
• Unrra (April 1945-October 1945)
• To America (October 1945-July 1946)
• Epilogue: what happened to

"In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, penniless, and cut off from contact with his family in Poland, Justus fled south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist in Marseille helping thousands of men and women, including many artists and intellectuals--among them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst--escape the Nazis. With his German background, understanding of French culture, and fluency in several languages, including English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry's refugee network as a spy and scout. The spry blond who looked even younger than his age flourished in the underground, handling counterfeit documents, secret passwords, black market currency, surveying escape routes, and dealing with avaricious gangsters. But when Fry was eventually forced to leave France, Gussie, as he was affectionately known, could not get out. For the next four years, Justus relied on his wits and skills to escape captivity, survive several close calls with death, and continue his fight against the Nazis, working with the French Resistance and later, becoming attached with the United States Army. At the war's end, Justus emigrated to America, and built a new life. Justus' story is a powerful saga of bravery, daring, adventure, and survival with the soul of a spy thriller. Reflecting on his past, Justus sees his life as a confluence of circumstances. As he writes, 'I survived the war through a rare combination of good fortune, resourcefulness, optimism, and, most important, the kindness of many good people.'" -- Publisher's description

The book is the first attempt in historiography to present the attitude of Christian Churches (Catholic, Evangelical, and Orthodox) in the Kingdom of Poland towards Jews at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The work is based on a rich and varied source base, it presents many new facts and introduces unknown or unused sources. The monograph deals with the issues of extremely important historical significance, often remaining at the center of the updated historical and political disputes. Despite the difficulty and complexity of the topic, the analysis of the source material, the narrative, and the conclusions contained therein were not involved in these disputes. The work is an important step towards understanding Christian-Jewish relations and Polish-Jewish relations.

• Introduction I Socio-institutional contexts of the establishment of Kwartalnik Muzyczny
• 1. Panorama of Polish musicological journalism until
• 1910 - Roman Chojnacki's Mloda Muzyka and Przeglad Muzyczny - WTM and Henryk Opienski's Kwartalnik Muzyczny (1911-14) - collaboration with Adolf Chybinski - clarification of the concept of a musicological quarterly - university series
• 2. Societies, associations, institutes of the interwar period: 'Club of professional music press' - Polish Society for Contemporary Music - Polish Musicological Society - Frederic Chopin Institute - Association of Early Music Lovers and Publishing Society of Polish Music as an institutional background to Kwartalnik Muzyczny
• 3. Music magazines of the interwar period: Lwowskie Wiadomosci Muzyczne i Literackie, Poznan's Przeglad Muzyczny, Mateusz Glinski's Muzyka - other environmental and local musical magazines - controversies over the model of an expert journal of the milieu
• II Hopes of Polish musicology - Kwartalnik Muzyczny in the years 1928-1933
• 1. The idea of publishing a musicological quarterly - preparatory work - establishing Kwartalnik Muzyczny: the periodical's concept - programme assumptions: the first editorial - reactions of the milieu
• 2. Musicological circles in Poland (Lviv, Cracow, Poznan, Warsaw) as addresses of the Kwartalnik - socio-scientific contexts: ideas about the functioning of the musicological environment - main topics of interest - other possibilities of publishing musicological studies: academic publishing
• 3. Musicology among academic disciplines in the interwar period - systematics, discussions
• 4. Authors and subjects: historical-musical work - 'technical history' (Chybinski) versus 'live history' (Jachimecki)-- contemporary music as a subject for research-- music theory and acoustics-- philosophy, aesthetics, sociology-- psychology, pedagogy-- ethnography and musical folklore-- themed editions
• 5. Muzyka Polska (1934-39) - Polski Rocznik Muzykologiczny (1935, 1936) III Difficult years - Kwartalnik Muzyczny in the years 1948-1950
• 1. New context of the functioning of the academic milieu and their publications - 'bourgeoisie musicology' Contents 7
• 2. Ideologisation of learning about music - conferences, conventions, congresses - Marxist musicology - Panstwowy Instytut Sztuki - gradual radicalisation in academia
• 3. An attempt to continue the formula of the magazine - Adolf Chybinski and his collaborators (Zofia Lissa, Tadeusz Ochlewski, Jozef M. Chominski - scope of cooperation and organisation of editorial work) - new organisation of publishing work (PWM, PIS)
• 4. Authors and subjects as well as concepts, problems and work methods - continuation of the pre-war work - around the current issues of musical socialist realism - thematic projects Conclusion Premises of the publishing crisis - change of generation - new publishing initiatives in the field of musicological periodicals: Muzyka, Studia Muzykologiczne, Rocznik Chopinowski Afterword Abbreviations Bibliography Secondary literature.
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The book presents the history of the only strictly scientific Polish musicological periodical Kwartalnik Muzyczny. It shows how the editorial board of the periodi-cal met with true approval and harsh criticism. The subject allows the author to present the beginnings of Polish musicology and its evolution through three epochs: the late partitioning period, the interwar period of Poland's independ-ence, and the early years after the Second World War.
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• Raised in the Red City
• Vitebsk, 1933 to 1936
• Responses to Exclusion and Violence
• Grodno, 1933 to 1939
• Red Revolution in Grodno, September 1939 to June 1941
• Faith in Soviet Security, January 1940 to June 1941
• Invasion and Holocaust, June to November 1941
• Exploitation and Annihilation, November 1941-March 1943
• Survival, 1942 to 1948

Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs, values, and attitudes. Variances in civic commitment, school lessons, youth activities, religious observance, housing arrangements, and perceptions of security deeply influenced these adolescents who would soon face a common enemy. Set in two cities flanking the border, Grodno in the interwar Polish Republic and Vitebsk in the Soviet Union, Borderland Generation traces the prewar and wartime experiences of young adult Jews raised under distinct political and social systems. Each cohort harnessed the knowledge and skills attained during their formative years to seek survival during the Holocaust through narrow windows of chance. Antisemitism in Polish Grodno encouraged Jewish adolescents to seek the support of their peers in youth groups. Across the border to the east, the Soviet system offered young Vitebsk Jews opportunities for advancement not possible in Poland, but only if they integrated into the predominantly Slavic society. These backgrounds shaped responses during the Holocaust. Grodno Jews deported to concentration camps acted in continuity with prewar social behaviors by forming bonds with other prisoners. Young survivors among Vitebsk's Jews often looked to survive by posing under false identities as Belarusians, Russians, or Tatars. Tapping archival resources in six languages, Borderland Generation offers an original and groundbreaking exploration of the ways in which young Polish and Soviet Jews fought for survival and the complex impulses that shaped their varying methods.
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"Nowa książka Bronisława Wildsteina to erudycyjny, pełen filozoficznych i literackich odwołań esej o kluczowym dla zrozumienia naszych czasów napięciu. Jak pisze autor we Wprowadzeniu: „Bunt i afirmacja jawią się jako bieguny konfliktu, który współcześnie dzieli naszą cywilizację. Chodzi o sprawę fundamentalną, nie o akcydentalne akty sprzeciwu czy akceptacji. Te zależą od konkretnej sytuacji i historycznych warunków. Natomiast elementarna opozycja, o której piszę, ma charakter metafizyczny. Sprowadza się do przyjęcia albo odrzucenia świata w jego zasadniczym, danym nam kształcie z jego podstawowymi uwarunkowaniami. Afirmacja nie oznacza zamykania oczu na zło, którego doświadczamy i które wpisane jest w ludzką kondycję. Wręcz przeciwnie. Dopiero akceptacja świata jako całości pozwala nam ze zrozumieniem, a więc do pewnego stopnia skutecznie, przeciwstawić się jego negatywnym aspektom". -- Various websites
"Bronisław Wildstein's new book is an erudite essay, full of philosophical and literary references, about the tension that is crucial to understanding our times. As the author writes in the Introduction: "Rebellion and affirmation appear as the poles of the conflict that divides our civilization today. It is a fundamental issue, not incidental acts of opposition or acceptance. These depend on the specific situation and historical conditions. On the other hand, the elementary opposition I am writing about is of a metaphysical nature. It comes down to accepting or rejecting the world in its basic shape given to us with its basic conditions. Affirmation does not mean closing our eyes to the evil we experience and which is inherent in the human condition. On the contrary. Only the acceptance of the world as a whole allows us to understand, and thus to some extent effectively, oppose its negative aspects." -- Cataloger's translation of the Polish synopsis

• Acknowledgments Name and Place Conventions Timeline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Maps and Illustrations
• PART 1 The Commonwealth in the Age of the Reformation
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Land of Many Sects 2.1 The People and Their Religions 2.2 The Territories and Their Governance 2.3 The Reformation in Poland and Lithuania before 1548
• PART 2 The Reformed Churches
• 3 Church Polity 3.1 The Early Years: 1548-1595 3.2 Growing Together: 1595-1630s 3.3 The 1634 Wlodawa General Convocation and Its Aftermath
• 4 The Liturgy 4.1 The Early Years 1550-1595 4.2 Krainski's Forma of 1599 and the 1601 Agenda in Lesser Poland 4.3 Liturgical Developments in the Greater Poland Brethren Churches 4.4 Reformed Liturgy in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1550-1621 4.5 Toward a Unified Reformed Liturgy in Poland and Lithuania
• 5 Church Discipline 5.1 Theological Background of Reformed Church Discipline before 1634 5.2 The Practice of Reformed Church Discipline before 1634 5.3 Reformed Church Discipline after the 1634 Wlodawa Convocation
• 6 The Ministry
• 7 Patterns of Piety
• PART 3 The Reformed Faithful
• 8 The Nobles Convert
• 9 A Few Sheep Are Better than a Herd of Pigs
• 10 Calvinists in Royal Towns
• 11 Calvinist Fishing in Lutheran Waters
• 12 "Most Fanatical Champions of Their Perfidious Dogmas"- Women and Calvinism in the Commonwealth
• 13 The Ambiguity of Numbers
• 14 Conclusion
• Bibliography Index.
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Calvinism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1548-1648 offers an in-depth history of the Reformed Churches in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in their first hundred years. Kazimierz Bem analyses church polity, liturgy, the practices of Calvinist church discipline and piety, and the reasons for conversion to and from Calvinism in all strata of the society. Drawing on extensive research in primary sources, Bem challenges the dominant narrative of Protestant decline after 1570 and argues for a continued flourishing of Calvinism in the Commonwealth until the 1630s.
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"Novembre 1940, Varsovie, les Juifs ne sont plus des citoyens polonais comme les autres, mais des prisonniers, enfermés et rétrécis dans un ghetto, l'ancien quartier juif de la ville, ceint d'un mur et de barbelés. Parmi eux, des enfants. Joachim, le rationnel, qui traduit le réel en chiffres pour désorienter l'angoisse et se rêve astronome, et Luba, la téméraire, éprise de grands espaces et d'arbres. Parce qu'ils sont l'avenir, parce qu'ils sont sacrés, parce qu'ils sont les premiers à mourir, un trio de femmes - deux Juives, Bela et Chana, et une chrétienne, Janina - organisent un réseau clandestin pour sortir les enfants du ghetto en les dotant d'une nouvelle identité purement polonaise et d'un certificat de baptême. C'est le récit d'une lutte acharnée pour survivre, de destins entremêlés et écrasés, portés par une langue singulière, une écriture qui gronde, ruisselle puis déferle. Prix Françoise-Sagan pour son premier livre Le sort tomba sur le plus jeune, paru chez Flammarion, Sophie Blandinières consacre sa vie à l'écriture. Novembre 1940, Varsovie, les Juifs ne sont plus des citoyens polonais comme les autres, mais des prisonniers, enfermés et rétrécis dans un ghetto, l'ancien quartier juif de la ville, ceint d'un mur et de barbelés. Parmi eux, des enfants. Joachim, le rationnel, qui traduit le réel en chiffres pour désorienter l'angoisse et se rêve astronome, et Luba, la téméraire, éprise de grands espaces et d'arbres. Parce qu'ils sont l'avenir, parce qu'ils sont sacrés, parce qu'ils sont les premiers à mourir, un trio de femmes - deux Juives, Bela et Chana, et une chrétienne, Janina - organisent un réseau clandestin pour sortir les enfants du ghetto en les dotant d'une nouvelle identité purement polonaise et d'un certificat de baptême. C'est le récit d'une lutte acharnée pour survivre, de destins entremêlés et écrasés, portés par une langue singulière, une écriture qui gronde, ruisselle puis déferle. Prix Françoise-Sagan pour son premier livre Le sort tomba sur le plus jeune, paru chez Flammarion, Sophie Blandinières consacre sa vie à l'écriture."--Page 4 of cover.

"Dans une lettre à son ami Titus, Chopin écrit : "Peut-être alors ne saurai-je plus garder mon secret, peut-être alors te dirai-je à quoi je rêve sans cesse, ce qui est toujours devant mes yeux, ce que j'entends constamment et me donne le plus de joie dans ce monde tout en m'affligeant le plus aussi." Pour tenter d'approcher ce secret, rappelons-nous les mots de Jean-Paul II sur l'artiste "authentique" qui est, "par nature, une sorte d'appel au Mystère", un pont jeté vers le sens profond de l'Être. Les étonnantes révélations mystiques reçues par la grande peintre Marie-Madeleine Gérard sur la Pologne et sur Chopin laissent entrevoir une dimension spirituelle souvent méconnue du sublime musicien. Si celui-ci se considérait avant tout comme Polonais, son génie fut universel et toute la dimension de sa sainteté se révèle à travers son art. Ce don total de lui-même, il le fit jusqu'à l'épuisement pour que sa musique "parvienne" jusqu'à l'âme si souvent blessée de ceux qui l'écoutaient et l'écoutent encore aujourd'hui."--Page 4 of cover.

This book is an exploration of the scope and methods used by Germany in its extermination and Germanization policy aimed at Polish children in the years 1939 to 1945. Children were sent to prisons and concentration camps, pseudomedical experiments were conducted on them, they were sent into forced labor, and planned mass abductions of them were conducted for the purpose of Germanization. The German leadership remained firmly convinced that the crimes they committed on children would never see the light of day; they erased all traces of the children's origins, changing first and last names, and dates of birth. This extermination and Germanization of Polish children was part of a long-term plan to secure the ultimate end of annexing the Polish lands to Germany. By means of the Germanization and extermination of Polish children, an "age-old problem" was meant to be solved; it was to be a measure to prevent a future generation of Poles from striving to regain the pillaged lands of their fathers.
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