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	Zofia Nalkowska Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		The writings of Zofia Nalkowska are an important contribution in twentieth-century Polish prose.
		Nalkowska introduced into Polish fiction the modern question of personality; she abandoned traditional realism in favor of the novel of analysis with its philosophical interests and its goal of uncovering the laws governing "character." Many of her works combine features of the novel and the essay, with the author becoming one of the characters.
		Zofia Nalkowska was born on 10 November 1884 in Warsaw to Waclaw Nalkowski, a distingui.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/zofia-nalkowska-dlb (195 words)

	Polish literature - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The regaining of Polish independence in 1919 after generations of partition inspired new literary activity.
		The Skamander group of urban poets, including Julian Tuwim and Kazimierz Wierzyński, called for an end to nationalist preoccupation and for experimental freedom; other significant figures included the novelists Marja Dąbrowska and Zofia Nalkowska (1885-1954) and the dramatists Karol Hubert Rostworoski (1877-1938) and Jerzy Szaniawski.
		The period's greatest writing, which gained recognition only after World War II, was the prose and drama of Stanisław Witkiewisz, Witold Gombrowicz, and Bruno Schulz.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-polishli.html (939 words)

	Central European University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Women’s studies are still in their infancy in Poland and this pioneering book is one of the most comprehensive and well-researched studies on nineteenth-century Polish women prose writers.
		Selecting writers that reflect the most turbulent time in Polish women’s literature, such as Klementyna Hoffmanowa, Narcyza Zmichovska, Eliza Orzeszkowa and Zofia Nalkowska.
		Borkowska’s approach of major feminist theories and post-feminist thought results in astonishing findings that throw new light on Polish women writers and their contribution to European thought.
	www.ceupress.com /books/html/AlienatedWomen.html (355 words)

	Bruno Schulz: TimeLine
		Originally the stories are written as postscripts in letters to his friend, Debora Vogel a Lwow poet and essayist.
		Towards the end of the year, Zofia Nalkowska supplies him with false identiy papers and money readying his escape to Warsaw, but...
		Schulz is killed in a street of the ghetto by Karl Günther, a Gestapo officer, in revenge for the shooting of his own protégée, a dentist called Löwe, by Landau.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/schulz/timeline.html (341 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In a series of letters to the poet Debora Vogel, he composed elaborate postscripts—long, descriptive passages based on episodes from his childhood.
		Vogel encouraged Schulz to turn his postscripts into a book, which eventually came to the attention of the novelist Zofia Nalkowska, an important figure in the Warsaw literary scene.
		After reading Schulz's manuscript, she proclaimed him "the most sensational discovery in our literature!" and promised to take his book to the publisher herself.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/021216crbo_books (2924 words)

	Death by a Thousand Cuts: SR, January 2003
		Nalkowska's House on the Meadows [Zofia Nalkowska, a Polish novelist].
		When later a letter from Hania arrived with the description of devastation of our beloved family home, I was ready for the news but still my heart filled with pain and my eyes shed tears.
		This small book about the life of simple people from a small developing suburb written in such a good style has given me the idea of publishing my diaries if they ever survive.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/103/231ptas.html (3131 words)

	Zofia Nalkowska Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Zofia Nalkowska Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions (written in 1945 and first published in 1946) stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style -- a style that the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz once described as "the iron capital of her art and one of the very few exportables in our national literature." Written in...
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	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Zofia_Nalkowska (124 words)

	Polish Studies at University of Wisconsin
		Course: (1) offers new perspectives on modern Polish culture through the study of fiction and non-fiction; (2) provides a historical background for understanding Polish culture; (3) introduces major issues in Polish culture such as national identity, nationalism/patriotism, religion, emigration, Polish-Jewish relations, and gender constructions.
		The course is organized in three thematic clusters: "Critics of Polish Culture," "Neighbors," and "Heroes and Anti-Heroes." Readings include selections from Ignacy Krasicki, Maria Konopnicka, Aleksander Swietochowski, Adam Szymanski, Stefan Zeromski, Zofia Nalkowska, Tadeusz Borowski, Henryk Grynberg, Hanna Krall, Slawomir Mrozek, Janusz Glowacki, Eva Hoffman, and others.
		This course provides a comprehensive background in Polish history and cultural mythology, and it introduces students to the central ideas and debates in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Polish literature.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /student/Wisconsin.html (1936 words)

	History News Network
		In August, a mob attacked the synagogue in Kraków and then pursued Jews throughout the city, killing several and wounding dozens.
		The writer Zofia Nalkowska, visiting a Jewish orphanage that fall, noted that the children were unable to enroll in public school because of "beatings and persecution." The following spring, the French Catholic intellectual Emmanuel Mounier reported that more than a thousand Jews had been killed in the Polish countryside over the past nine months.
		And on July 4, 1946, scores of Jews were killed and hundreds injured in a day-long city-wide bloodbath in Kielce that has become notorious as the deadliest peacetime pogrom in modern Europe....
	hnn.us /roundup/comments/30267.html (423 words)

	Amazon.com: Medallions (Jewish Lives): Books: Zofia Nalkowska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It is very interesting to see how uneducated and uninformed people express their ignorant opinions.
		For those who don't know, Zofia Nalkowska was a known political activist after WWII.
		She wrote the book "Medallions" on the basis on true interviews she conducted with the holocaust survivors.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810117428?v=glance (702 words)

	POLISH NEWS - PN Interview Page - Jedwabne Without Stereotypes... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The raised question is: how much responsibility is solely on the German side, and how much of it is a collective guilt that the Germans share with other nations.
		TS: In 1946, Polish writer Zofia Nalkowska published Medaliony, the book she began with a motto: "People did this to other people".
		If then, in 1946, Poland had conducted any sociological surveys, the majority of Polish population would have probably disagreed with Nalkowska, arguing that "the Germans did this to other people." Today, the situation looks different.
	www.polishnews.com /fulltext/interview/2002/interview75_2.shtml (4847 words)

	Study Polish Abroad with StudyAbroad.com - The Study Abroad Information Source
		The triumph of regaining Polish independence in 1919 inspired a new generation of writers.
		Urban poets Julian Tuwim and Kazimierz Wierzynski, and novelists Marja Dabrowska and Zofia Nalkowska gained popularity during this time.
		One of the greatest periods of writing came after World War II, and Czeslaw Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.
	www.studyabroad.com /lom/polish.html (493 words)

	»»european Reviews«« (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The stories range from 2-10 pages in length with a wide range of story types: historical, epistolary, experimental.
		There is one non-fiction work in the anthology--Zofia Nalkowska's "Medallions," her firsthand account of her participation in investigating Nazi war crimes,.
		This selection is not for the faint of heart with its' graphic, grisly descriptions of Nazi torture chambers and death camps.
	www.financial-book-review.com.cob-web.org:8888 /european/european_376.html (1737 words)

	WHY, OH GOD, WHY?
		It transpired later that they were killed and their bodies were subjected to a special process for melting out body fat, which was then made into soap.
		I heard about this in the camp and there is reference to it in Zofia Nalkowska's boom, "Medaliony", 1952.
		Here I must add the fact that whole transports of underage children were sent to Stutthof.
	wearcam.org /envirotech/quarantine_shaved_heads_why34.html (6641 words)

	Slavic Languages and Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It provides an overview of historical and cultural contexts to help students gain a fuller understanding of "culturally different" texts.
		Writers discussed include Aleksander Swietochowski, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Maria Konopnicka, Boleslaw Prus, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Stefan Zeromski, Zofia Nalkowska, Czeslaw Milosz, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Zbigniew Herbert, Wislawa Szymborska, Janusz Glowacki, Adam Zagajewski, and others.
		Requirements include active participation in discussion, class presentations, and two exams.
	polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /slavic/courses/216PolLT.htm (86 words)

	Gender and Women's Studies at UIC
		We will study the major themes and ideas presented in their work such as woman/artist, writing, revolution, war, love, solitude, and woman's body.
		Primary texts include Maria Kuncewiczowa, The Keys: A Journey through Europe at War; Zofia Nalkowska, Medallions; Halina Poswiatowska, Indeed I Love; Stanislawa Przybyszewska, The Danton Case; Thermidor: Two Plays; Anna Swirszczynska, Fat Like the Sun; Wislawa Szymborska, Nothing Twice, Selected Poems; Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night.
		We will also watch and discuss 4 films based on the works adapted from the writers' work.
	www.uic.edu /depts/wsweb/graduate/courses.htm (3870 words)

	Bruno Schulz
		Schulz wrote his stories in Polish although he knew both Yiddish and German.
		As a writer Schulz made his debut with Sklepy Cynamonowe (1934), a collection of short stories, which was published at the urging of the novelist Zofia Nalkowska.
		Its title can be translated as "Cinamon shops".
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /schulz.htm (1057 words)

	Powell's Books - Medallions (Jewish Lives) by Zofia Nalkowska (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Powell's Books - Medallions (Jewish Lives) by Zofia Nalkowska (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu)
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	Last Name
		Each story unfolds against the otherworldly landscape of Nakagami's native Kumano, the wild, mountainous region he called "the crotch of
		ghetto broke Zofia Nalkowska's life in two; in the years to come, the need to bear witness to the horrors she had witnessed led this gifted member of the Polish avant-garde to write the stories collected in
		Medallions includes seven short stories and one summation, "The Adults and Children of Auschwitz." These terse, sometimes fragmented pieces take the form of testimonials, private interviews, and chance conversations in which the protagonists, speaking for themselves with their sometimes limited understanding of the human drama, also speak on behalf of millions.
	www.utdallas.edu /~schulte/annotations/N.htm (2901 words)

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		"Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, "Medallions" stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style (-).
		Nalkowska narratives, written in documentary form with simple, concise, severly elegant prose, give voice to the experience of victims and witnesses of the Nazi genocide."
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