February 14th, 2003 Czesław Miłosz and the So-called Polish School of Poetry Bogdan Czaykowski is a historian, literary critic, poet, and translator. He is a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he began his career in 1962, specializing in Polish and East European literature and history. His academic interests as…
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November 13th, 2002 Conflicting Memories, Contested Past: Some Reflections on Polish-Jewish Relations Eva Hoffman was born in Krakow, Poland, where she received her early schooling and musical education before emigrating to Canada with her family in 1959. After receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University, she taught literature and settled in New York City. While working…
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October 25th, 2002 The Future Is Not What It Was: Realities of the Economic Transformation of Poland Witold Sulimurski, a native of Poland and a graduate of Cambridge University, came to the United States in 1957 where he pursued an international banking career. He retired early in 1989 as Executive Vice President of Irving Trust…
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October 4th, 2002 The Perfect House of Andrea Palladio Witold Rybczyński, of Polish parentage, was born in Edinburgh (1943), raised in Surrey, and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He received Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from McGill University in Montreal, where he taught between 1974 and 1993. His architectural experience…
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Colors of Identity: Discovering My Roots Through Polish Art April 6th, 2002 Tom Podl was born in 1938 in Chicago to Polish parents who came to the United States at the beginning of the century and whose families permanently settled in the Chicago area. Mr. Podl graduated with a BSEE degree from the Illinois…
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