Word: krakow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...various works come from collections in Harvard's art museums as well as Houghton Library, the Semitic Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Krakow Gallery in Boston...
...Krakow in southern Poland boasts the only old city which did not need thorough reconstruction. Outside the walls, synagogues and buildings with Hebrew writing provide testament to a formerly vital Jewish ghetto. Six hundred elderly Jews live in Krakow now as compared with 65,000 before...
...flashbacks follow three families who live in an imaginary town, about 80 miles from Krakow. Although the names change slightly over the centuries, each family's social position is rigid. The Buks, peasants, are subservient to the Bukowskis, minor nobles who in turn serve the Lubonskis, major nobles (magnates). From the Tatar invasion in 1241 to the modern union negotiations, these three families appear, and each performs the task dictated by his rank. The Buks tend the horses of the Bukowskis, who fight fearlessly for the causes chosen by the Lubonskis...
...other members of the Solidarity commission, representing workers in major population centers, are Zbigniew Bujak of Warsaw, Bogdon Lis of Gdansk, Wladyslaw Hardck of Krakow and Eugeniusz Szurniejko of Katowice...
Polish Catholics also wept at the sound of the pope's voice yesterday, and in Krakow, where he was once archbishop 300,000 faithful prayed for his recovery from gunshot wounds...