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Bearing witness : a personal perspective on sixty years of Polish history / Maria Jarosz ; translated by Steven Stoltenberg and Grzegorz Siwicki.
Van Pelt Library HM479.J37 O2513 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jarosz, Maria, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Obyś żył w ciekawych czasach. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Jarosz, Maria.
- Sociologists--Poland--Biography.
- Sociologists.
- Social conditions.
- Jewish sociologists.
- Women sociologists.
- Poland.
- Women sociologists--Poland--Biography.
- Jewish sociologists--Poland--Biography.
- Poland--History--20th century.
- History.
- Poland--Social conditions--20th century.
- Warsaw (Poland)--Biography.
- Warsaw (Poland).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 260 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, 2015.
- Contents:
- From the author
- Marked by the past
- A sociologist and a witness to history
- 1939 : war breaks out
- Shut off from life : the Lodz ghetto
- Warsaw in the 1940s : the ghetto and the "Aryan side"
- The Warsaw ghetto
- Occupied Warsaw
- Szmalcownicy and heroes
- First decade of communism
- Poland or France?
- My universities
- 1956 : workers' councils, Gozdzik, and Gomulka
- First steps in academia
- Workers' councils : the case of Zeran
- Yugoslavia : oddities and infatuation
- 1968 and the aftermath : excluded from society
- Forced into unemployment
- Emotional aspect of the march purges
- GUS : the job I didn't want and the research I dreamed of
- Up against the censors
- Varna congress : changing Soviet research priorities
- Postdoctoral qualification
- Martial law : signs of social disintegration
- Institute of crime problems : solidarity and the people in power
- Martial law and the ghosts of the war
- The state of society as reflected by the suicide rate
- Polish Academy of Sciences and adventures with research
- An unusual grant
- Empirical research in a free Poland : being part of the research community
- Democratic Poland : winners and losers
- 1989 : the round table
- The costs of transition
- Social disorganization and corruption
- Corruption : personal experience
- Bribing the Mexican police
- Greasing palms in a communist hospital
- Greasing palms in a postcommunist hospital : pay or perish
- A view from abroad : food for thought
- On the go : by rail and air
- Airport adventure : hijack attempt
- In France
- In Ukraine
- In China
- In Vietnam
- In Japan
- In Cuba
- In Israel
- about Poland
- In Italy
- In Germany
- America : the Polish perspective
- Ethnic hodgepodge : a politically correct family
- Facts of life : cops and robbers, lost and found, and the pernicious effects of too much alcohol
- Closing reflections : the world has changed...
- Notes:
- Translated from the Polish.
- "Originally published in 2009 by Oficyna Naukowa"--Title page verso.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781412855952
- 1412855950
- OCLC:
- 894938246
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