‎SLOCOMBE (G.E.)‎
‎Poland.‎

‎THEATRE IN MODERN POLAND‎

‎ Warsaw, 1963, in-4, 176 pp., 259 photos n/b et XXXVI illustrations en couleur, reliure d'éditeur sous jaquette illustrée, coiffes et tranches frottées, un paragraphe surligné au stylo sinon bon exemplaire.‎

‎Memory, Identity, and Governance in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 528, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:17 b/w, 8 col., 5 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503619361.‎

‎Summary In the early modern period, Poland-Lithuania stood as a realm where the echoes of a storied past intertwined with the ambitions of a dynamic present. This volume illuminates how its diverse populace navigated the complexities of their shared heritage, weaving tradition with innovation to craft a uniquely multi-layered identity. The essays presented here examine the dual nature of historical inheritance in this vast polity. On the one hand, the past served as a treasure trove of enduring ideas, compelling narratives, and time-tested practices that enriched cultural and political life. On the other, it posed formidable challenges, requiring creative adaptation to meet the demands of changing times. By exploring established narratives, performative traditions, and historical frameworks, the contributors uncover the intricate ways in which memory influenced decision-making and societal evolution. They reveal how the past was neither static nor simply an obstacle, but was an active force that shaped contemporary aspirations and inspired visions of the future. Through the lenses of rulers, nobles, intellectuals, and commoners, this collection offers fresh perspectives on how the people of Poland-Lithuania harnessed the power of history to craft a legacy that transcended their era. Essential reading for scholars and enthusiasts alike, this work examines the enduring dialogue between memory and identity in one of Europe's most compelling early modern states. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Composite Nature of Poland-Lithuania: Political, Cultural, and Social Dynamics in Early Modern East Central Europe Katarzyna Kuras and Krzysztof Fokt Part I. The Glorious Past in the Collective Memory and Political Practice Chapter 1. Between Myth and History: The Sarmatian Narrative of Poland-Lithuania Joanna Orze? Chapter 2. Voices on an Extinct Dynasty: The Jagiellons in the Political Writings of the First Interregnum Marek Ferenc Chapter 3. A Phronetic Journey Through Poland's Memorial Landscape Iwona Barwicka-Tylek Part II. Legacies and Identities of the Regions and Provinces and their Developments Chapter 4. The Transformation of Legacy: How the Ukrainian Cossacks Adapted the Traditions of Rus' and Poland-Lithuania Viktor Brekhunenko Chapter 5. Cultural and Political Dualities: Livonia's Integration and Identity within Poland-Lithuania Bogus?aw Dyba? Chapter 6: Lithuanian Sejmiks: Defending Lithuanian Independence and Equality with Poland, 1697-1763 Andrei Matsuk Part III. The History and Memory of Institutions Chapter 7. The Liberum Veto and the Parliamentary System of Poland-Lithuania: Historiography's Struggles with a Challenging Legal Legacy Tomasz Kucharski Chapter 8. Local Governance and Civic Engagement: The Role of Sejmiks in Poland-Lithuania Micha? Zwierzykowski Chapter 9. The Seventeenth-Century Wars in Polish Historical Consciousness: Myths, Realities, and Legacies Zbigniew Hundert Part IV. The Res Publicae of the Commoners: Memory, Social Practice, and Cohesion in the Towns and Villages Chapter 10. The Heritage of Everyday Life: Legal Culture in the Towns and Cities of Early Modern Poland Maciej Miku?a Chapter 11. Local Heritage: The Sources of Identity of the Peasantry and Petty Townsfolk in pre-Partition Poland-Lithuania Mateusz Wy?ga Part V. Cultural Practices and Their Developments: Communication, Education, Healthcare Chapter 12. Domestic and Foreign Travels of Inhabitants of Poland-Lithuania as Forms of Exploring and Preserving Cultural Heritage and Elements of Social Communication Adam Kucharski Chapter 13. Balancing Tradition and Influence: Noblewomen in the Social Fabric of Early Modern Poland Agnieszka Jakuboszczak Chapter 14. Health, Illness, and Medical Treatments in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania Katarzyna P?kacka-Falkowska and Jakub W?glorz Part VI. Intact Deposits of Faith? Religious Developments in Poland-Lithuania Chapter 15. Confessional Divisions and the Evolution of Worship in Royal Prussia S?awomir Ko?cielak Chapter 16. Holiday Customs and Catholic Reformers in Eighteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania: The Story of Religious Heritage Resilience Stanis?aw Witecki Glossary of Offices Index‎

‎THE MASS EXTERMINATION of JEWS in GERMAN OCCUPIED POLAND. Note addressed to the Governments of the United Nations on December 10th, 1942, and other documents. - [INFORMING THE WEST OF THE HOLOCAUST]‎

‎London, New York, Melbourne (printed in Great Britain), Published on behalf of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (1943). 8vo. Stapled as issued. Title-page printed in red. Stapels with rust, slightly affecting surrounding paper. A very fine, near mint, copy. 16 pp.‎

‎The scarce first printing of this hugely important publication, which constitutes one of the very first official reports on Holocaust and one of the most accurate accounts that had been presented to the West, changing their knowledge of what was actually going on. This seminal pamphlet consists of 1) Raczynski's account of the ongoing Holocaust, based among other reports, on the eye-witness-report by Jan Karski, a Polish Government emissary in occupied Poland, who bribed his way into a German concentration camp and witnessed the mass extermination of Jews, 2) the seminal ""Joint Declaration"" by members of the United Nations, in which ""The above-mentioned Govenments and the French National Committee condemn in the strongest possible terms this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination. They declare that such events can only strengthen the resolve of all free-loving peoples to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny. They reaffirm their solems resolution to ensure that those responsible for these crimes shall not escape retribution, and to press on with the necessary practical measures to this end."" (p. 12), 3) an extract of Deputy Prime Minister Mikolajczy's statement on behalf of the Polish Government, and 4) the text of Raczynski's broadcast of December 1942, in which pleaded for action, wishing to make the public and the Allied nations ""understand how real is the tragedy which is taking place not so very far from the shores of this island, on the continet of Europe - on the soil of Poland. For more than three years the Germans have consistently done everything they could to hide from the eyes of the world the martyrdom of the Polish nation, the like of which has never been known in the history of humanity. But ""when we would keep silence the very stones will cry out""."" (p. 15). While the details were neither complete nor wholly accurate, the Allies were aware of most of what the Germans had done to the Jews at a relatively early date. The mass murder of the Jews was of such dimensions, however, that, at first, they could not believe the reports that reached them. This quickly changed, though. In February of 1942 Jacob Grojanowski, an escaped prisoner of the Chelmno extermination camp, provided the Oneg Shabbat group with detailed information about what went on at the Chelmno camp. His report became known as the Grojanowski Report. It was smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto via the Polish underground and reached London in June of 1942. It is not known exactly what happened to the report at that point, but by February of 1942, the United States Office of War Information had decided not to release information about the extermination of Jews (thinking that there was a risk of the public viewing the war as only being a Jewish problem). Thus, the Grojanowski Report was not released. By at least October of 1942 British radio had broadcast news of the gassing of Jews to the Netherlands, and in December 1942, the Western Allies released their Joint Declaration [which is printed in the present publication], describing and condemning in the strongest manner Hitler's violent attempts at exterminating the Jews of Europe. In 1942 Jan Karski (1914-2000), a Polish World War II resistance movement fighter and later professor at Georgetown University gave his first report to the Polish, British, and U.S. governments on what was going on in the German extermination camps in Poland.Karski reported to the Polish government in exile (i.e. Raczynski, who was the Ambassador and one of its most prominent leaders) and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland. Karski personally met with Franklin Roosevelt and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to explain what went on in Poland, and Raczynski wrote up the report. Eventually, the American Government confirmed the reports to Jewish leaders in late November 1942, and shortly thereafter they were publicized [i.e. in the present publication]. Karski's report (through Raczynski) became one of the most important reports in the history of the Holocaust, being a major factor in informing the West. It sparked one of the first official publications from the Allies on the mass extermination of Jews in Poland and resulted in the official reports and condemnations from the Allied countries, i.e. the ""Joint Declaration"" [also published here]. ""The purpose of this publication is to make public the contents of the Note of December 10th, 1942, addresses by the Polish Government to the Governments of the United Nations concerning the mass extermination of Jews in the Polish territories occupied by Germany, and also other documents treating on the same subject. [...] In the hope that the civilized worlds will draw the appropriate conclusions, the Polish Government desire to bring to the notice of the public, by means of the present White Paper, these renewed German efforts at mass extermination, with the employment of fresh horrifying methods."" (From the Introductory Note, p. 3). ""Most recent reports present a horrifying picture of the position to which the Jews in Poland have been reduced. The new methods of mass slaughter applied during the last few months confirm the fact that the German autorities aim with systematic deliberation at the total extermination of the Jewsih population of Poland and of the many thousands of Jews whom the German authorities have deported to Poland from Western and Central European countries and from the German Reich itself.The Polish Government consider it their duty to bring to the knowledge of the governments of all civilized countries the following fully authentical information received from Poland during recent weeks, which indicates all too plainly the new methods of extermination adopted by the German authorities."" (p. 4).‎

‎THE MASS EXTERMINATION of JEWS in GERMAN OCCUPIED POLAND. Note addressed to the Governments of the United Nations on December 10th, 1942, and other documents. - [INFORMING THE WEST OF THE HOLOCAUST]‎

‎London, New York, Melbourne (printed in Great Britain), Published on behalf of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (1943). 8vo. Stapled as issued. Title-page printed in red. Stapels with rust, slightly affecting surrounding paper. A very fine, near mint, copy. 16 pp.‎

‎The scarce first printing of this hugely important publication, which constitutes one of the very first official reports on Holocaust and one of the most accurate accounts that had been presented to the West, changing their knowledge of what was actually going on. This seminal pamphlet consists of 1) Raczynski's account of the ongoing Holocaust, based among other reports, on the eye-witness-report by Jan Karski, a Polish Government emissary in occupied Poland, who bribed his way into a German concentration camp and witnessed the mass extermination of Jews, 2) the seminal ""Joint Declaration"" by members of the United Nations, in which ""The above-mentioned Govenments and the French National Committee condemn in the strongest possible terms this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination. They declare that such events can only strengthen the resolve of all free-loving peoples to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny. They reaffirm their solems resolution to ensure that those responsible for these crimes shall not escape retribution, and to press on with the necessary practical measures to this end."" (p. 12), 3) an extract of Deputy Prime Minister Mikolajczy's statement on behalf of the Polish Government, and 4) the text of Raczynski's broadcast of December 1942, in which pleaded for action, wishing to make the public and the Allied nations ""understand how real is the tragedy which is taking place not so very far from the shores of this island, on the continet of Europe - on the soil of Poland. For more than three years the Germans have consistently done everything they could to hide from the eyes of the world the martyrdom of the Polish nation, the like of which has never been known in the history of humanity. But ""when we would keep silence the very stones will cry out""."" (p. 15).While the details were neither complete nor wholly accurate, the Allies were aware of most of what the Germans had done to the Jews at a relatively early date. The mass murder of the Jews was of such dimensions, however, that, at first, they could not believe the reports that reached them. This quickly changed, though.In February of 1942 Jacob Grojanowski, an escaped prisoner of the Chelmno extermination camp, provided the Oneg Shabbat group with detailed information about what went on at the Chelmno camp. His report became known as the Grojanowski Report. It was smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto via the Polish underground and reached London in June of 1942. It is not known exactly what happened to the report at that point, but by February of 1942, the United States Office of War Information had decided not to release information about the extermination of Jews (thinking that there was a risk of the public viewing the war as only being a Jewish problem). Thus, the Grojanowski Report was not released. By at least October of 1942 British radio had broadcast news of the gassing of Jews to the Netherlands, and in December 1942, the Western Allies released their Joint Declaration [which is printed in the present publication], describing and condemning in the strongest manner Hitler's violent attempts at exterminating the Jews of Europe. In 1942 Jan Karski (1914-2000), a Polish World War II resistance movement fighter and later professor at Georgetown University gave his first report to the Polish, British, and U.S. governments on what was going on in the German extermination camps in Poland.Karski reported to the Polish government in exile (i.e. Raczynski, who was the Ambassador and one of its most prominent leaders) and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland. Karski personally met with Franklin Roosevelt and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to explain what went on in Poland, and Raczynski wrote up the report. Eventually, the American Government confirmed the reports to Jewish leaders in late November 1942, and shortly thereafter they were publicized [i.e. in the present publication]. Karski's report (through Raczynski) became one of the most important reports in the history of the Holocaust, being a major factor in informing the West. It sparked one of the first official publications from the Allies on the mass extermination of Jews in Poland and resulted in the official reports and condemnations from the Allied countries, i.e. the ""Joint Declaration"" [also published here].""The purpose of this publication is to make public the contents of the Note of December 10th, 1942, addresses by the Polish Government to the Governments of the United Nations concerning the mass extermination of Jews in the Polish territories occupied by Germany, and also other documents treating on the same subject. [...] In the hope that the civilized worlds will draw the appropriate conclusions, the Polish Government desire to bring to the notice of the public, by means of the present White Paper, these renewed German efforts at mass extermination, with the employment of fresh horrifying methods."" (From the Introductory Note, p. 3).""Most recent reports present a horrifying picture of the position to which the Jews in Poland have been reduced. The new methods of mass slaughter applied during the last few months confirm the fact that the German autorities aim with systematic deliberation at the total extermination of the Jewsih population of Poland and of the many thousands of Jews whom the German authorities have deported to Poland from Western and Central European countries and from the German Reich itself.The Polish Government consider it their duty to bring to the knowledge of the governments of all civilized countries the following fully authentical information received from Poland during recent weeks, which indicates all too plainly the new methods of extermination adopted by the German authorities."" (p. 4). ‎

‎Legitimation of the Elites in High Medieval Poland and Norway Comparative Studies‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 483 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:8 b/w, 34 col, 1 tables b/w., 3 maps b/w, Language:English, *new. ISBN 9782503611617.‎

‎Between the years 1000 and 1300, the two developing polities of Norway and Poland often followed similar trends. Both realms were located on what was considered the periphery of Europe, both joined Latin Christendom ? and with it, the wider sphere of European cultural influence ? at the turn of the first millennium, and both, by the end of the thirteenth century, had largely coalesced as stable kingdoms. Yet while the histories of these two countries have long been studied along national lines, it remains rarer for them to be considered outside of their traditional geographical context, and studied via comparison with events elsewhere. This innovative volume seeks to explore the means and uses of symbolic power that were employed by religiopolitical elites in order to assert their legitimacy and dominance by taking an explicitly comparative approach and dual perspective on these two polities. What stories did elites tell themselves and others about their deservedness to rule, what spaces and objects did they utilize in order to project their elevated status, and how did struggle and rivalry form part of their societal dominance? Formed from chapters co-written by experts in Polish and Norwegian history, this unique volume not only reflects on the similarities and differences between events in these two polities, but also more broadly offers conceptual tools and comparative frameworks that can enhance our wider understanding of the conditions and factors that shaped religiopolitical behaviour on the peripheries. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Editors? Preface 1. Introduction. Comparing Elite Legitimation in Poland and Norway in the High Middle Ages Wojtek Jezierski, Grzegorz Pac, and Hans Jacob Orning Part I: Stories of Legitimation 2. Ancient Pasts and Traditions as Elite Legitimation in Poland and Norway. Peripheral Senses of Belonging and Non-Belonging Grzegorz Bartusik, Rafa? Rutkowski, and Wojtek Jezierski 3. Missionary Rulers and Holy Men. Christianization as Elite Legitimization and Political Ideology in Poland and Norway, 1000?1300 Wojtek Jezierski and Roman Micha?owski 4. When the Knight Won His Spurs. Elite Military Ideology in Poland and Norway, c. 965?1300 Benjamin Allport and Pawe? ?mudzki Part II: Spaces of Legitimation 5. Sacral Strongholds. Nunneries as Sources of Legitimacy in Twelfth-Century Poland and Norway Anna Agnieszka Dryblak and Steffen Hope 6. Saints and Legitimization of Bishoprics in Poland and Norway until c. 1200 Grzegorz Pac and Steffen Hope 7. Legitimization and Consolidation of Rulership in Norway and Poland c. 990?1140 as Indicated through Coinage Mika Viktoria Boros 8. Coinage, the Cult of Saints, and the Legitimization of Elites in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Poland and Norway Steffen Hope, Mateusz Bogucki, and Svein Harald Gullbekk Part III: Struggles for Legitimation 9. The Contrast Between the Ideology and and the Practice of Rulership in Medieval Poland and Norway Zbigniew Dalewski and Hans Jacob Orning 10. Struggles for Episcopal Legitimation during the Gregorian Reform in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Norway and Poland Jerzy Pysiak and Krzysztof Skwierczy?ski 11. Dynastic Conflicts. Civil Wars or Constant Struggles? Hans Jacob Orning and Marcin Rafa? Pauk 12. Queens and Duchesses in the High Middle Ages. The Role of Elite Women in Shaping Dynastic Legitimation during Periods of Political Change Anna Agnieszka Dryblak and Benjamin Husvik Afterword 13. Is Legitimation Reducible Only to a ?Will to Power?? State Formation and Values in the Comparative History of the European Periphery during the High Middle Ages Alice Taylor General Index‎