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...challenges ahead. His party has no experience in power, and he has been criticized by the opposition for being a "media star" without substance. "If the aim of government is not to disturb much, then he is a good PM," jokes Jaroslaw Flis, a political commentator at Krakow's Jagiellonian University...
...intensely as it was imaginable to do and still survive it. Born in 1920, as Poland, a once great power, was moving toward its postwar sovereignty after more than a century of bitter subjugation, the army officer's son planned to study the Polish language at Krakow's Jagiellonian University. That aspiration--along with Poland's short-lived autonomy--was dashed when Germany invaded in 1939 and Wojtyla was plunged into a firsthand study of successive totalitarianisms. Forced to work at a limestone quarry, he risked his life by studying at a clandestine seminary and narrowly escaping arrest...
Wojtyla is another mountaineer, from the Carpathian foothills near Cracow. This splendid medieval and Renaissance city, with its ancient Jagiellonian University -- which Wojtyla attended -- was the center of his youthful universe. Warsaw, the modern capital of Poland, meant little to him, and the summit of his clerical ambition was reached when he became Cardinal-Archbishop of Cracow. As Pope, he is a Pole, as Roncalli was an Italian. But both men, as instinctive regionalists, have repudiated modern nationalism and have tended to see Europe as an amalgam of historic regions -- a microcosm of a world of peoples rather than...
...rest have been returned to circulation, restored to the life of books. Most of them have been sold, sometimes in packages of 500 or more volumes, to institutions as diverse as the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, the University of Melbourne in Australia and the public library in Cincinnati. To stock their private libraries, scholars around the world have come to rely on the center, which is the world's largest supplier of out-of-print Yiddish books. A Korean academic who lives in Tokyo orders his books from the center's office, which occupies a century-old brick schoolhouse...
...library, helping to round out the story's political and historical background. Kohan normally covers Religion for TIME. But he speaks Polish (and Russian) and has visited both countries three times in the past five years. For a month in 1979 he studied Polish language and culture at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. This year he spent five weeks reporting from Moscow for our special edition on the Soviet Union. For this week's story Kohan worked his Polish contacts in the U.S., including some who are in touch with members of the Polish opposition, and combed his own personal files...