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Image presents a candid mosaic of Jewish life in Poland. What emerges from the film's patchwork is a coherent portrait of a flourishing culture. Aspiring writers flock to Warsaw to study under Y.L. Peretz, the dean of Yiddish literature. In the town of Vilna, the Jewish community establishes schools for the mentally retarded and for orphans. In the shtetls, the townfold engage in lively commerce and conform to the letter of well-rooted traditions. The Jews are politically animated. The heirs of the Enlightenment try to balance universal values with continuing Jewish particularism (the "problem" of minority separatism...
...huge iron gates of Wyszynski's Warsaw residence were adorned with purple and red tulips, and inside, the bedridden 79-year-old cardinal--who was given last rites Saturday--was in serious condition with what church officials have described only as a "gastric illness...
There had never been a May Day parade quite like it in the Soviet bloc. No outsize portraits of Marx and Lenin. No reviewing stand for party bigwigs. No interminable speeches. Marching in a procession of 100,000 workers down Warsaw's Krolewska Street last week, under a sea of red flags, was a group of men who used to gaze down on such manifestations from an elevated platform: the entire eleven-member Polish Politburo, hatless in spite of the light drizzle, occasionally smiling at the gaggle of photographers around them. Said one startled Polish journalist: "This...
...Kania's lip service to the Soviet bloc, the Central Committee's actions seemed to fly in the face of Moscow's injunctions. Only six days before the plenum began, hard-lining Soviet Ideologue Mikhail Suslov had flown to Warsaw to deliver what was presumed to be a stiff warning to hold the line against further democratization. Shortly after that, a sizzling article published by TASS, the official Soviet news agency, charged unnamed Polish party reformists with "revisionism"-one of the gravest epithets in the Communist lexicon and one that was invoked against the reform-minded Czechoslovak...
...measures did not satisfy the representatives of the Torun group who had gone to Warsaw to monitor the Central Committee plenum. Said one of their spokesmen: "We're not concerned with approaching democracy. We're concerned with democracy now." But that expression of impatience was itself an indication of how far Poland had come along the road to democracy. Where else, under Moscow's dominion, could one imagine the spectacle of government representatives sitting down with members of an independent trade union and treating them as equal bargaining partners? What other Communist government would endorse a legislative...