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Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman's Experience is the first-person
account by Jewish journalist Sara Nomberg-Przytyk of surviving
Auschwitz then rising to various leadership roles in the
newly-formed postwar Polish Communist Party. Building a just and
equitable Poland for the common Pole through communism was her
dream. The reality was neither simple nor successful. Working for
heavily censored newspapers and periodicals, Nomberg-Przytyk
witnessed firsthand the inner workings of a communist government
plagued by the same Kafkaesque bureaucracy and antisemitism that
she had been certain it would fix. Her memoir provides a
comprehensive account as she slowly changed from enthusiastic
practitioner to witness of a system that failed her and many
others. This is the first published edition of this text,
originally recorded as oral testimony in Polish but translated into
English by Paula Parsky, and includes a critical introduction by
the co-editors, American and Polish academics Holli Levitsky and
Justyna Wlodarczyk, as well as extensive annotations.
What has changed in the last twenty-five years in the relationship
of Poles with their dogs? How have the free market and capitalism
influenced Poland and the human-canine bond there? Are dogs
"property," "friends," or "members of the family" in post-communist
Poland? Free Market Dogs, edited by Micha? Piotr Pr?gowski and
Justyna W?odarczyk, examines the interactions and relationships of
dogs and humans in contemporary Polish culture and society, and
explores how Poland's intense exposure to Western-and particularly
American-cultural patterns influenced the status of dogs after
restoration of democracy in 1989. This book discusses topics such
as the emergence of pet cemeteries, dog memoirs, and presidential
dogs in Poland; the growing popularity of dog sports and the
feminization of said sports; the philosophical and ideological
changes in dog training caused by exposure to state-of-the-art
methods from American books and videos; dogs in contemporary Polish
art; and the specificity and growing pains of local pet-facilitated
therapy. Free Market Dogs was written by researchers and
practitioners whose academic background includes sociology,
anthropology, pedagogy, cultural studies, and literary studies, and
whose practical experience involves either training dogs or working
with them. Based on thorough research and personal expertise, this
is a great book for anyone interested in human-canine
relationships-and their similarities and differences-around the
world.
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