Edward Stankiewicz Livres

In this unusual memoir, Edward Stankiewicz stirringly recalls his youth as a Polish Jew beginning with prewar Warsaw through to the Nazi invasion. Life on the run lands Stankiewicz in Soviet-occupied Lwow where in time he joins the Lwow Literary Club. A friend of Jewish, Yiddish, Polish, and Soviet poets and writers, he offers rare insights into wartime Eastern European intellectual life. After the German occupation of Lwow, in the newly built Jewish ghetto, he works in German military outfits and learns to forge Aryan and German documents to help people escape. In a German uniform he escapes to the Eastern Ukraine where he wanders for several months from town to town. Captured by the Gestapo, he is shipped to Buchenwald where he survives as a Pole. In the camp he manages to produce Polish and German poetry and a play. Some of these poems are reproduced in the book. Writing in a spare, accessible style, Stankiewicz unflinchingly addresses such significant issues as identity, loyalty, betrayal, anti-Semitism, and communism.

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- 1. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- 2. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH -- 3. METHODOLOGICAL PREMISES -- 4. PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONEMICS -- 5. MORPHOLOGY AND THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGES -- 6. SLAVIC LINGUISTICS -- REFERENCES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY'S LINGUISTIC WORKS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ABOUT BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Footnotes -- List of Abbreviations -- West Slavic -- Czech -- Slovak -- Polish -- Sorbian -- South Slavic -- Bulgarian -- Croatian -- Serbian -- Slovene -- East Slavic -- Russian -- Ukrainian -- Index of Authors -- Index of Cities with Variant Names -- Secondary Bibliography -- List of Facsimiles and Critical Editions