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This article deals with Letters from England written by Edmund Naganowski in 1879-1903 and published in Warsaw, Cracow and Lwów newspapers and magazines. He was a keen observer of English literary and cultural scene, politics and the English way of life. Moreover, he sought to introduce to his Polish readers the most notable contemporary British writers. Although his fascination with Britain is uncontestable, he could also write about it in a critical tone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the coverage of Cieszyn Silesia in the Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny, a respected nationwide daily based in Cracow, during the escalating crisis in Polish-Czechoslovak relations in August–October 1938. An analysis of over four hundred articles shows that while the primary focus was on the situation of ethnic Poles in the disputed region (Zaolzie, or Trans- Olza) and the problems facing Czechoslovakia on the international stage, the IKC also took care to provide its readers with information about the history and economic importance of the former Duchy of Cieszyn (Těšín, Teschen). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the broad reception of Virginia Woolf in the interwar press in Poland. On the basis of over a hundred press materials, it assesses the contribution of selected newspapers and magazines as well as cultural mediators to the process that enhanced both the transfer of modernism and the development of reading culture. The article analyzes diverse strategies of interpretation and cultural transfer whose development was stimulated by cultural centres and transnational modernist networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the history of periodicals which have been published in Sandomierz, or had an ongoing interest in the town, since 1816, when the first publication of this kind went into print. Apart from the Polish segment, the article covers periodicals in Latin, German, English, Russian and Dutch. So far c. 230 items on wide range of themes have been sourced to Sandomierz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article looks into the behind-the-scenes tussle accompanying the setting up of Wola Ludu (The Will of the People) as the chief organ of the Polish Peasants' Party PSL Piast, published in Warsaw in 1921-1931. It was one of several party papers that cropped up in the wake of infighting between factions led by Maciej Rataj, Jan Dąbski and Wincenty Witos. Although Wola Ludu aspired to be the key mouthpiece of PSL Piast, its history has attracted hardly any sustained research. This article examines, first of all, the politicians' memoirs and other personal sources, but it also employs the tools of media analysis to outline the profile of the Wola Ludu weekly and to find out what distinguishes it from other PSL papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to analyze the impact of local press on social capital. A content analysis of Gazeta Lipnicka, a newspaper published between 1997 and 2016 in Bielsko-Biała by the Lipnik Association, is used to examine its communicative and integrative role in the local community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the theatre section in Gazeta Żydowska published under the control of the occupation authorities in the Generalgouvernement in 1940–1942. The paper focused first of all on theatres in the Warsaw ghetto. The news and reviews were to create the impression that Jewish culture was flourishing and the situation in ghetto was normalizing as the residents were adapting to the new conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The publication of newspapers and the extraction and use of crude oil were undoubtedly among the socio-economic areas that significantly affected the lives of people in the 19th century. At the time, newspapers and journals played the role of the most important and popular sources of information about crude oil and its products, especially kerosene, and they shaped their readers' worldviews on those products' uses in the economy and everyday life. This paper presents the beginning of the oil industry in Austrian Galicia in pre-autonomy Galicia in the Polish news press (Czas, Gazeta Narodowa, Gazeta Lwowska) and economic magazines (Gazeta Przemysłowa, Korespondent Handlowy, Przemysłowy i Rolniczy, Tygodnik Rolniczo-Przemysłowy). The first mentions in the press on the subject appeared in the 1850s. In the 1860s, oil-related subjects were broadly represented in daily newspapers and in the economic press. In agricultural journals, especially in the Prussian and Russian partitions, oil-related subjects were not present in titles from the 1850s and 60s. The first group of texts consisted of articles about crude oil (chemical properties) and regions which were rich in petroleum. In areas where it was present, crude oil had been known and used for a long time, but to the readership of newspapers and journals it was a new resource. It is no wonder then that the press was explaining what it was and what its uses were. The press did not focus on Galicia's deposits of crude oil, earthwax and natural gas, but did print detailed information on their sources around the world, especially in the United States (the names of oil fields, the volume and monetary value of extraction and export to Europe). The press saw the American mass production and sale of oil to Europe as the greatest threat to the Galician industry. The press documented the economic situation of the Galician oil industry (petroleum mining, oil refinery, business people) and speculated on its future position in Galicia's economic system. It speculated that the oil industry would become an important branch of the economy. When writing about the oil industry, the press reported on the first mines (Bóbrka, Borysław), entrepreneurs, the presence of oil products on agricultural and industrial expositions organised in Kraków, Rzeszów and Jasło. Another subject discussed by the press was articles on the trade of paraffin oil. The development of the Galician oil industry had also become a pretext to debate on its role in everyday life. In the opinion of the press, oil lamps would be used as street lighting and at home illuminating the whole room. These newspaper advertisements showed new products connected with the oil industry such as different kinds of paraffin oil and oil lamps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In spring 1925 four journalists representing four different newspapers printed in Poland (in Polish) travelled to Eretz Israel to report on the ceremonies of opening the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Jakub Appenszlak (Nasz Przegląd), Bernard Zimmermann (Nowy Dziennik), and Leon Weinstock (Chwila) were Polish Jews and supporters of Zionism. Janusz Makarczyk (Kurier Warszawski) was a Pole working for a right-wing Polish daily. As reporters they witnessed the opening of the University and also visited other places like Tel Aviv and some agricultural settlements. They sent their reports to Poland. The reports represent a unique view on the development of Jewish Palestine in the mid-1920s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the representation of the Spanish Civil War addressed to the readers of the Polish local press in Siedlce, then in the Voivodship of Lublin. In the period 1936-1939 Siedlce could boast of having three newspapers -- the weekly Głos Podlaski published by the Diocesan Curia Siedlce, and two trimensuals, Ziemia Siedlecka and Życie Podlasia, both affiliated with the ruling Sanacja. Each of them showed an unflagging interest in the Spanish war, treated as a violent clash of the opposed forces of left-wing Republicanism and nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an comprehensive media-analysis of 'Życie i Kultura' [Life and Culture], a sup-plement published in 1951-1956 with the weekend edition of Głos Szczeciński, the newspaper of the Polish United Workers' Party in Szczecin, aimed at delineating its idea of regionalism, i.e. the character of regional identity that the paper was trying to construct for a population made up entirely of migrants. The article contains a list of journalists connected with Szczecin and the region; an account of serial articles featuring regional themes; an analysis of various aspects of regionalism in reportage; and a review of materials of regional interest that found their way into print. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the tabloidization of Gazeta Polska, one of Poland's leading right-wing weeklies. An analysis of the contents of the issues published in 2020 shows that the magazine meets all five criteria of tabloidization, i.e. colloquialism, emotionalism, sensationalism, personalization and visualization. The findings of this article can be treated as a contribution to current debates about the ongoing tabloidization of opinion weeklies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This artical is a survey of hitherto unresearched Prątka Jednodniówka [The Mayfly], a magazine edited by the patients of the TB sanatorium at Bystra Śląska near Bielsko-Biała and published in 1931-1935. Five issues of the magazine stored at the Cieszyn Library were examined for their literary content, made up almost exclusively by humor and satire. The gelotherapeutic profile makes the magazine unique among similar publications associated with healthcare institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the “Revolution of Solidarity” (September 1980 – December 1981), some of the magazines of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PUWP) became an independent way of local structures PUWP, which had controlled them. One of the example is the editorial office “Gazeta Krakowska” (GK), which during this period, presented often autonomous views towards to PUWP. In this article, the author analyzes the attitude of the authorities of the Krakow Committee PUWP (KC) towards to the content of GK. The attention was paid to the specificity of the reports and the impact of authorities KC on the editorial office of GK, as well as their resonance among journalists. The text also refers to the evolution of these relations and the reasons for their change in the second half of 1981. The author pays particular attention to the view authorities KC towards to specific autonomy of GK. In the article, the author presented in which spheres were allowed for freedom and in which party discipline was demanded. The text also refers to the “common interests” that could have been linked by the liberal-minded authorities of the KC and the editorial staff of GK for example in striving for internal party reforms or fighting the conservative part of PUWP. “Gazeta Krakowska”, Polish United Workers’ Party, press, Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union “Solidarity”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It seems that Polish IT press has its best years far behind. After its popularity skyrocketed in the 1990s, when it was the primary source of information for millions of computer owners, it has lost much of its attractiveness and usefulness. Nowadays information and advice can be found in countless websites and discussion forums, as well as YouTube channels. In effect, today, most of the magazines in that market segment are aimed at professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tries to answer the question about the way the losses in the Battle of Tsushima, one of the key battles of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) were reported in contemporary Polish press, in particular Warsaw's leading daily newspaper Kurier Warszawski. The analysis, divided into sections, juxtaposes the actual press coverage with the matching accounts in the literature on the subject. As the number of items referring to the Tsuishma story is very large, only some have been included in the study, which concludes with a summary of the research results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the history of one of a few Polish underground newspapers Słowo Polskie, which was issued by National Military Organization (NOW) during German and the second Soviet occupation in Lviv (1943-1946). The publication was based on NOW members’ relations, gathered by Boleslaw Tomaszewski. The author describes the structure of NOW, as well as the places where printing houses and contact points were located. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with Jewish issues appearing in the daily newspaper Słowo Pomorskie in the years 1938-1939. The newspaper was published in Toruń in the years 1920-1939 and covered the Pomerania Province (Pomorskie Province) at that time. In the article, the political character of Słowo Pomorskie and its importance for local structures of the National Party (Stronnictwo Narodowe) are discussed. The newspaper usually presented a negative image of the Jewish population, which was connected with the antisemitic attitude of the nationalist groups. The author also describes the role of the Catholic clergy in propagating the anti-Jewish attitudes. The antisemitic contents is divided into thematic categories--foreign and domestic issues are separated. The analysis of the newspaper texts shows, among other things, the affinity of the antisemitic views of the National Party with other movements of this kind in Europe. In the Polish context, the hatred toward Jews did not diminish on the eve of the outbreak of World War II, but rather became radicalized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of the article is to broaden the state of knowledge about Yiddish press published in Łódź. The author focuses on two periodicals dedicated to sport: Ershte Yudishe Shakh-Tsaytung and Ershte Yudishe Sport-Tsaytung that were issued in 1913 and 1914. They were considered as missing and ephemeral with no important contribution to the history of Polish Jews. The analysis of two inconspicuous magazines leads to the conclusion that expands research in the field of press or biography studies, revealing interesting information especially about the milieu of people gathered around the widely defined cultural life in Łódź, adding some unknown facts about Arthur Szyk, Moshe Broderzon or David Frishman, and enriching knowledge about the formative processes in the Jewish cultural life in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When discussing the perception of international events in the Polish pre-war press, it should be noted that these were frequently the subject matter in times of loss of independence such as partitioning of Poland and subsequent world wars. Some of the events happening in the history of the United States were of interest to local and national press. It applied even to one of the most violent and racist of American organizations -- the infamous Ku Klux Klan. The purpose of this article is to acquaint readers with the image of the most powerful Klan of 1920's in the Polish press. It is intriguing that the subject of Klan remains relatively unknown to Polish scientific literature. As of April 2020 there have been published only four monographies about the Invisible Empire written by Polish authors. This is puzzling because, as stated above, the subject matter of the Klan already existed in the Polish press at the time of its greatest power. Moreover, Polish-language readers during the partitions of Poland could familiarize themselves with current social and ethnic issues in the United States*. One example would be a series of articles in Galician press on the William Cody's Wild West Show which toured Polish lands in 1906**. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a frequency analysis of the term 'independence' and examines its uses in discussions of education, economic life and culture in the 1904-1914 issues of Głos Polski, a political weekly associated with the National Democracy, published in Tarnopol (Ternopil). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Vladimir Lenin Steelworks and other state-owned enterprises in Nowa Huta, the eastern district of Cracow, ran a number of holiday centres all over Poland and encouraged their staff to spend their leave in those places with their family members and colleagues. This form of organized leisure was also promoted by the press. So for example Głos Nowej Huty, a weekly issued by the Workers' Council of the VL Steelworks, published articles showing the attractions and, occasionally, problems of individual holiday homes. At the same time readers were encouraged to file in their application in good time. The publicity contributed to the success of this type of organized leisure -- the number of people who took up this offer increased year on year throughout that period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The image of psychiatry and psychiatrists in film, press and news media is presented in a negative way. Psychiatrists are shown as unethical, unprofessional, ineffective and generally bringing harm to their patients, although they are shown as better educated and more intelligent than psychologists. Existing literature on the image of psychiatrists concerns mainly fictional characters and skips the Polish context. The aim of the study was to find out how psychiatry and mental health experts are presented in Polish opinion weeklies. Material and methods: An analysis of psychiatrist’s image was carried out using competent judges method. A database of 208 articles from year 2013 was created. The articles were chosen from the magazines “Angora”, “Do Rzeczy”, “Gazeta Polska”, “Gość Niedzielny”, “Newsweek Polska”, “Polityka”, “Sieci”, “Wprost” using keywords related to psychiatry, psycho-logy and psychotherapy.Two independent judges conducted the analysis using a questionnaire created for the purpose of this study, assessing the content of the articles on three five-step dimensions: (1) Competence, (2) Positive role, (3) Ethics. Results: The average overall assessment of the image of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists oscillated around the value of 3.5, indicating the neutrality of the image. No statistically significant differences were found in the assessment of the level of competence, a positive assessment of the role and ethics between specialists. 53% of the articles presented psychiatrists in a positive way, 40% in a neutral way, and 6% in a negative way. Among psychologists, the image was positive in 60%, in 27% it was neutral, and in 13% - negative. In the case of psychotherapists, the frequencies is by analogy 33%, 52% and 15%. Conclusions: The image of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists in the analyzed articles was positive or neutral. There was no significant difference between representation strategies of each profession. The comparison of the obtained results with the analyses presented in the literature shows that the image of mental health experts is systematically improving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

socialist city is mainly associated with the imperial architecture of Minsk or East Berlin, the functional division into districts, monumental public buildings, or housing developments. This article aims at restructuring the prospect of city development in the first post-war period, i.e. 1945- 1949. Based on the example of Łódź - Poland's biggest city in view of the demolished Warsaw as well as the working-class capital of textiles - I reconstruct modernisation discourses in press, showing that in the first period of the reconstruction, modest suggestions as to the city development were made, ones adjusted to the needs of its inhabitants and the comfort of everyday life. It was only with the aggravation of the political course after the year 1948 when these were replaced with more daring prospects of a socialist city, gigantic investments, and the construction of new districts for the working-class masses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jewish homes for the aged (moshav zkenim) began to be established in Eastern Europe in the 1840s. In the interwar period, probably over sixty Jewish institutions of this kind operated in Poland, providing care for several thousand people. We know relatively much about the figures of their founders, benefactors, social activists, and senior employees. However, gaining information about residents themselves requires much more intensive queries. The article is based primarily on articles, reports, and announcements appearing in Jewish press, supplemented by accounts published in memorial books and other sources, to recreate a general portrait of people who lived under the care of such institutions in Warsaw, Lemberg (Lviv), Vilnius, and other places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Father Marceli Dziurzyński (1861-1945) was a noted publisher and editor of a number of magazines, mainly for the country people. The most successful of them was Nowy Dzwonek (The New Hand Bell) that appeared continually from 1892, under altered names and at various intervals, until 1932. This article surveys the first phase of its history and its thematic range (religion, Polish history, current events in Poland and abroad, stories and poems). In that period the magazine also carried a number of supplements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article looks back at the history and themes of the Yearbook of the History of Polish Press in 1998-2017, when Jerzy Jarowiecki was its editor-in-chief. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of the publication is to determine what knowledge was available to Polish women about the situation of women and feminist organizations in Europe and on other continents? What picture of the activities of these organizations was presented by the Women's League press bodies? By using the classic method of analyzing and criticizing the content of the press, and as an auxiliary methodology of monographic research, it was possible to find answers to these and similar questions. Studies have shown, among others what role such organizations as the Democratic Committee of Bulgarian Women and the Democratic Union of Finnish Women played in the emancipation processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article outlines the history of Polish automotive magazines and, additionally, the results of the author's latest research. The accumulation of hitherto unknown facts and new findings have made it necessary to revise the received view of the subject. So, for instance, the first Polish automotive magazine to be published was Gazeta Automobilowa. It was launched in Lwów in February 1911, five months earlier than Lotnik i Automobilista, until recently believed to be the first Polish car magazine. The article contains an updated, most comprehensive list of Polish automotive periodicals that appeared in print until 1939. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the life path of the journalist Jerzy Zieleński: his wartime experiences, post-war attitudes, relations with the communist political police, journalistic career and opposition activities. The article is a part of the historiographic debate on the evolution of attitudes of intelligentsia towards the communist system in the times of the Polish People’s Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article outlines the rise and development of popular science periodicals in Poland from the 18th century until 1939. Their history begins in 1758 with the publication of Nowe Wiadomości Ekonomiczne i Uczone [Latest Economic and Learned News]. Our corpus includes 128 periodicals representing a great diversity of formats and content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leon Trzebiński, born in Poznań on March 14, 1879, was educated to be a printer and worked all his life in the typographic factories of several cities. In 1900, for a short time, he settled in Toruń and joined the printing house of Sylwester Buszczyński. Working in Pomerania as a responsible editor, he signed the issues of "Gazeta Toruńska" (from no. 78 of April 4 to no. 112 of May 16, 1901) and "Przyjaciel" (from no. 42 of April 6 to no. 59 of May 16, 1901). In the subsequent years he was employed in Bochum in Westphalia, Grudziądz, Dortmund and other German cities. After World War I, he managed the printing house in Leszno; later he became the owner of a typographic plant in Rawicz, and just before the outbreak of World War II he bought a printing house in Lida (today's Belarus). After the war, he returned to Greater Poland and was employed in the plants in Jelenia Góra and Wschowa. In the latter town he died on December 9, 1956. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a profile of the monthly Moriah, a Zionist Polish-language magazine for the Jewish youth, published in Lwów in 1903-1924. In general, Moriah offered its readers a lot of popular general knowledge, chiefly in the field of Jewish history and literature, as well as poems and stories written by Yiddish and Hebrew authors. The magazine sought to educate its readers in the spirit of Jewish nationalism and instill them with Zionist ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1970s and 1980s Poland student magazines became an alternative to the official literary and juvenile press. They were published under the auspices of the official student organization ZSP, renamed SZSP (The Socialist Polish Students' Association), but their editors did enjoy a notable degree of autonomy, relative to the ideologically-controlled mainstream student culture. They owed their special status to the mode their products were published -- irregularly, as small circulation single-issue magazines distributed outside the official channels. Among the most important amateur one-off community magazines were Dwukropek, Faktor, Gaudeamus, Konfrontacje, Linia, Magazyn Studencki, Spojrzenia, Smar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analysis of its content and illustrations indicates that wSieci occupies a middle ground between serious opinion-shaping press and a political tabloid. Its taste for scandal is signalled first and foremost by its characteristic cover cartoons, a mix of crude simplification, brazen partisanship and unashamed xenophobia. Like other magazines with upmarket ambitions wSieci has followed the vogue for writing focused on sharply-drawn individuals. Its defiant conservatism that doesn't mince words is both a political stance and a marketing strategy. The magazine started with a big splash, but now that its price has climbed up and the novelty effect has faded, its sales have peaked. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The student strikes in the autumn of 1981 generated a flurry of cultural activities including a number of uncensored publishing initiatives. So for instance members of the Student Journalist Club of Lublin revived the Biuletyn Informacyjny under the new title Biuletyn Informacyjny LKDS (The Strike Edition). It was treated with distrust both by the communist authorities and the sympathizers of the Independent Student Union (NZS), who associated it with the old Socialist Union of Polish Students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is a pioneering attempt to present Ilustracja Polska, a little known magazine published by Ludwik Szczepański in Cracow between 1901 and 1904. It was the first Polish modern illustrated weekly to focus on the coverage of current events (it was also the first magazine of this type in Galicia). In addition to a discussion of the origin, layout, and contents of both the weekly and its various extras (almanacs, an illustrated album on Wawel Castle), the article brings to light some unknown details of Poland's first photographic exhibition, organized by the editors of Ilustracja Polska in Cracow in 1902. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article chronicles the history of Gazeta Nowa, one of the first new papers to be launched in Poland after the political breakthrough of 1989, from the perspective of its founder Andrzej Bucek. Started in Zielona Góra as a weekly, it soon transformed itself into a daily with local mutations in Głogów, Gorzów, Lubin, and after 1992 also in Żary. The article examines the circumstances of its launch and the expectations and aims of its founder, before focusing on the profile and structure of the paper (with a full list of its editorial staff). Drawing on his personal memories as well as generally known facts, the author analyzes first the rise of Gazeta Nowa to a position where it challenged the regional leader Gazeta Lubuska and then the problems which led to its demise in July 1993. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article attempts to identify the key characteristics of the leisure and celebrity gossip magazines. Using a broad range of qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis, the author tries to answer the following questions: What media groups were most active in that market segment? Who are the target readers of the leisure and gossip press? What are the future prospects of that press segment in a rapidly changing media landscape? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a forgotten Warsaw weekly Wiadomości Kobiece [Women's News], which campaigned for legal and social equality for women. The extraordinarily low cover price enabled it to become the biggest-selling women's magazine in the early 1930s. The article examines its column writing and literary content, not without some mistrust about the intentions of the editors (Wiadomości Kobiece was published by the owner of Ostatnie Wiadomości [Latest News], a tabloid focused on scandal and sensation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Polonia, an Upper Silesian daily founded by Wojciech Korfanty in 1926, remains a mine of information not only about the situation in Upper Silesia between the wars but also a notable source for any study of Poland's politics in that period. Polonia's coverage of national politics is important not only because the paper presents a regional point of view but also because of the light its publications throw on the conflict between Wojciech Korfanty and Józef Piłsudski. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article surveys an interesting and valuable collection of sources to the history of Cracow press in the interwar period, i.e. the situation reports of the Voivod and Head of the Cracow Urban County (Starosta). The evolving scope and methodology of those reports were reconstructed from instructions prepared by the Cracow Voivodship Administration, based on guidelines issued by the Ministry of Interior Affairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the events known as the "pimp pogrom," which took place in Warsaw in May 1905, as presented by the Jewish press. The analysis of the sources has provided new insights into the events, which were very complex in their nature. For many years, the Jewish community of Warsaw struggled with a problem of prostitution and white slavery. The inaction of the Russian authorities and police as well as the ineffectiveness of abolitionist organizations provoked the feeling of hopelessness and evoked a rank-and-file initiative of the Jewish working class. The pre-revolutionary turmoil only accelerated the explosion of violence against the marginalized and suspicious elements of the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the history of student columns and supplements that appeared in Wilno's Polish dailies in the interwar period. This review covers all the main daily newspapers published between 1918/22-1939, among them Dziennik Wileński (1918-1920 and 1922-1938) and Glos Narodowy (1938-1939), both associated with the nationalist part of the political spectrum; the centre-stage Kurier Wileński (1924-1939); and the conservative Słowo [The Word] (1922-1939). The article examines the editorial, financial and social constraints that faced the individual academic editors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article recounts the beginnings and the development of Scout magazines in 1911-1939, with a more detailed analysis of the publications from the interwar period. The review covers a total of 220 publications grouped in four sections - 1911-1917, 1918-1925, 1926-1930, and 1931-1939 - and subdivided according to their rank, ie. issued by HQ of the Polish Scout Movement (ZHP), its district and regional divisions, and, fi nally, various local groups. Some notable magazines are analyzed briefl y. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article scrutinises various aspects of cultural activities in Hebrew literary centers in interwar Poland (1919-1939). The research is based on Hebrew literary periodicals published in the cities of Warsaw, Krakow, Vilnius and Lviv. Taking into consideration the common practice of scholars to neglect or ignore both the historical importance and the literary value of the output of diasporic centers, the main goal of the study was to show the internal dynamic of the Polish center. By describing literary initiatives undertaken in various cities, the author demonstrated the spectrum of cultural and literary activities, along with differences between the centers and mutual relations of their representatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article contains a bibliometric survey of Jerzy Myśliński's academic work, ie. 174 publications on the history of the press, radio and television. This is complemented by a review of their reception (as shown by the citation index) and a reassessment of Myśliński's research in the context of other press historian's work.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ms. Anna Grodzka's election to the Polish Parliament in 2011 was a crucial event because for the first time in Europe a transsexual person became a Member of Parliament, and thus was to represent all Poles at the national level. This event resulted in mixed reactions and comments: from euphoria to trauma, from great pride to deep prejudice. It is instrumental in self identification of Poles, nevertheless two different Polish "nations" make use of it, presenting two different languages and two absolutely separate pictures of Polish identity. The first approach is associated with such notions as freedom, equity, minority rights, multiculturalism. The other is connected with such phrases as original values, genuine Poles, God, and the regular family. Therefore contemporary war of cultures, that is a general conflict over values and collective identity, came to focus on the fact that Anna Grodzka became an MP. The author of the article, relying on Allan McKee's interpretative analysis of cultural texts, in this case press articles, aims at an analysis of the role of Ms. Grodzka's election for identity shaping processes among Poles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 150th Anniversary of the November Rising of 1830, which occurred at the highly volatile time of the signing of the Gdańsk Accords and the rise of the Solidarność movement, had an exceptional scope and resonance both at the national and local level. The article surveys the coverage of the anniversary across the print media, from academic journals through quality periodicals to popular press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]