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...more personal level of inspiration, Heaney cites Polish expatriot poet Czeslaw Milosz, who recently passed away at the age of 93. “He had a great political as well as artistic feel,” he says...
According to museum data sheets, the painting was brought to America by a Polish prince fleeing in advance of the Nazi invasion. Yet no prior records of this painting exist, said Jordan. He pointed out that, while the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939, the letter of validation provided by Valentiner is dated June 1939. This means the painting was in America prior to the alleged escape...
Gaskell said he did not necessarily subscribe to the story portrayed about the Polish prince, either. He said that the prince might have left before the Nazi invasion...
MORE THAN 60 YEARS ago, a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin fled Nazi-occupied Europe, arrived in the U.S. and invented a word that he thought would change the world. Lemkin believed that genocide-- from the Greek geno (race or tribe) and the Latin cide (from caedere, killing)--would carry such stigma that states would be loath to commit the crime--or to allow...
...artwork, attractively printed in blue ink on an off-white ground, has polish and clarity. Unfortunately, the experiences of "A Few Perfect Hours" do far less for us as readers than they evidently did for the author. The book's episodic nature defeats the raison d'etre of a travel book - to learn something new about the world. Neufeld never stays in one place long enough to give us a depth of understanding about the environs or people in the places he visits. "A Few Perfect Hours," ultimately reads more like autobiography set in exotic locals. But without the neurotic...