‘Polisra /
Israpol’: Polish-Israeli comic album 7
August – 28 September
Renowned
Polish and Israeli artists have co-operated to produce a remarkable
comic album. During a pair of workshops held in
Poland and
Israel,
some leading lights of the graphic art world collaborated to produce
a comic album with original stories and drawings. Contributors
include:
Zeev Engelmayer, Amitai Sandy and Daniel Goldstein from
Israel
and Krzysztof Ostrowski, Michał ‘Śledziu’ Śledziński and Joanna
Karpowicz from Poland. An
English language version is planned for distribution throughout the
British and American markets.
Opening: 07.08
at 20.00 Dates:
07.08 - 28.09 A
meeting with the artists:
26.09 at 13.00 Venue:Museum
of Cartoons
and Caricature 61 Weizmann
Street,
Holon.
The
Polish Account – Facing Memory, edition by Miri Paz
In
February 2007, at the initiative of the Polish Institute, the
publishing house Ha’kibbutz Ha’meuhad published, in the series Kav
Adom Library, a collection of essays by Polish intellectuals,
entitled “The Polish Account – Facing Memory” with Miri
Paz’s edition and translation. It is the first time the Israeli
reader gets the opportunity to become acquainted with the most
important voices of Polish thinkers, culture specialists, critics
who take part in this common discourse about memory, relation to
history, war, Holocaust and Jews. Attempts at confronting this topic
were already made when Poland was still ruled by Communists, but
only after the reestablishment of democracy they were intensified
and embraced wide circles of intellectuals.
Ha’cheshbon ha’polani. Imut im zikaron, edited by Miri Paz, Tel
Aviv: Ha’kibbutz Ha’meuchad, Kav Adom, 224 pages, price - NIS 82
Difficult questions
in the Polish-Jewish dialogue
edited by Maciej Kozłowski,
Andrzej Folwarczny and Michał Bilewicz
The
book Difficult Questions is the first endeavor in Polish publishing
to build bridges of understanding between Poles and Jews with regard
to their perception of history, politics and daily life. The history
that is learned in school by young American and Israeli Jews is an
entirely different version from that which young Poles are taught.
The idea of the authors was to collect and analyze more than a
thousand questionnaires gathered in Poland, the United States,
Israel, Canada and Australia. A group of sociologists assembled by
the Forum for Dialogue Among Nations together with the editors of
this book compiled a list of the fifty most important and
representative questions posed by young people. They were answered
by some of the most distinguished experts in the areas of history,
sociology, Polish-Jewish relations and religion.
Difficult questions in Polish-Jewish dialogue, edited by Maciej
Kozłowski, Andrzej Folwarczny, Michał Bilewicz, Warszawa: Jacek
Santorski&Co Agencja Wydawnicza, 260 pages, price PLN 29,90
* the English version of the book is available at the Polish
Institute
Writing is the art of telling stories. (Pawel
Huelle)
A novelist and author of a volume of verse, born
in Gdansk in 1957, Huelle is a graduate in Polish of the Gdansk
University, and has also worked in that city as an employee of the "Solidarity"
press office, university lecturer, journalist, director of the
Gdansk Polish Television Center and, most recently, as a columnist
for Gazeta Wyborcza. Huelle has found enormous success as a writer
and been honored with many prestigious awards.
His books, and especially his first novel Weiser Dawidek (1987) -
classed by critics as "the book of the decade," "a masterpiece" and
"a literary triumph" - have been widely translated. Weiser Dawidek
is set in Gdansk in 1957 and concerns the mysterious disappearance
of a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy at the end of an unforgettable
summer vacation, and the private investigation into the affair
carried out many years later by the narrator, one of Dawidek's
boyhood friends, whose whole life was changed by the unusual events
that happened so long before. Dawidek, the leader of the band of
boys, was a mystery in himself: a sort of messiah, miracle-worker
and magician, and the emissary of unknown forces. Part thriller and
part parable, this detective story is full of historical metaphors
and can be read in many ways: as a story of growing up, as a novel
of manners and morals, or a political or adventure novel, or even as
a philosophical treatise.
Bibliography:
Weiser Dawidek.
Gdansk: Wydawnictwo Morskie, 1987;
second, revised edition London: Puls, 1992.
Opowiadania na czas przeprowadzki (
Moving house:
stories). London: Puls, 1991.
Wiersze (Poems).
Gdansk: Wydawnictwo Morskie, 1994.
Pierwsza milosc i inne opowiadania (First Love and Other
Stories).
London: Puls, 1996.
Inne historie (Different Stories)
. Gdansk: Slowo/obraz
terytoria, 1999.
Mercedes-Benz. Z listow do Hrabala (Mercedes-Benz.
Letters to Hrabal). Cracow: Znak, 2001.
In
February 2007, at the initiative of the Polish Institute, the
publishing house Ha’kibbutz Ha’meuhad published, in the series Kav
Adom Library, a collection of essays by Polish intellectuals,
entitled “The Polish Account – Facing Memory” with Miri
Paz’s edition and translation. It is the first time the Israeli
reader gets the opportunity to become acquainted with the most
important voices of Polish thinkers, culture specialists, critics
who take part in this common discourse about memory, relation to
history, war, Holocaust and Jews. Attempts at confronting this topic
were already made when Poland was still ruled by Communists, but
only after the reestablishment of democracy they were intensified
and embraced wide circles of intellectuals. 
The
book Difficult Questions is the first endeavor in Polish publishing
to build bridges of understanding between Poles and Jews with regard
to their perception of history, politics and daily life. The history
that is learned in school by young American and Israeli Jews is an
entirely different version from that which young Poles are taught.
The idea of the authors was to collect and analyze more than a
thousand questionnaires gathered in Poland, the United States,
Israel, Canada and Australia. A group of sociologists assembled by
the Forum for Dialogue Among Nations together with the editors of
this book compiled a list of the fifty most important and
representative questions posed by young people. They were answered
by some of the most distinguished experts in the areas of history,
sociology, Polish-Jewish relations and religion.
A novelist and author of a volume of verse, born
in Gdansk in 1957, Huelle is a graduate in Polish of the Gdansk
University, and has also worked in that city as an employee of the "Solidarity"
press office, university lecturer, journalist, director of the
Gdansk Polish Television Center and, most recently, as a columnist
for Gazeta Wyborcza. Huelle has found enormous success as a writer
and been honored with many prestigious awards.
His books, and especially his first novel Weiser Dawidek (1987) -
classed by critics as "the book of the decade," "a masterpiece" and
"a literary triumph" - have been widely translated. Weiser Dawidek
is set in Gdansk in 1957 and concerns the mysterious disappearance
of a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy at the end of an unforgettable
summer vacation, and the private investigation into the affair
carried out many years later by the narrator, one of Dawidek's
boyhood friends, whose whole life was changed by the unusual events
that happened so long before. Dawidek, the leader of the band of
boys, was a mystery in himself: a sort of messiah, miracle-worker
and magician, and the emissary of unknown forces. Part thriller and
part parable, this detective story is full of historical metaphors
and can be read in many ways: as a story of growing up, as a novel
of manners and morals, or a political or adventure novel, or even as
a philosophical treatise.