NUMBER 11

FORUM
SIMON SCHAMA: Roundabout Way
An extract from "Landscape and Memory", an account of the author's journey in the north-eastern Poland:
"We had been driving through the northeastern corner of Poland, a country where frontiers march back and forth to the abrupt commands of history. The same fields of wheat and rye moving in slow waves with the rhythm of the breeze had been Lithuanian, German, Russian, Polish."
RICHARD I. COHEN: Jewish Icons
Author is Professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history and relations between Jews and other societies.
MAGDA CÂRNECI: Brâncuşi and Chances of Illumination
Romanian poet, writer, history of art lecturer, presents the profile of the great Romanian sculptor: "Brâncuşi discusses only the most essential themes - feminine and masculine gender, birth and death, love and eternity, genesis and raising from the dead; all are complementary manifestations of this deep truth of the world which according to him should be revived in the modernity".

THE LITERARY CORNER

Poems by:
FERIDA DURAKOVIĆ, a poet from Bosnia; ANA PEJCINOVA, a Macedonian living in Prague; RENATE SCHMIDGALL, a German poet and translator from Polish, living in Darmstadt.

Prose:
IZET SARAJLIĆ: Short Stories: "At 4 Ognjena Pricy"; Pierre Besuchov in Sarajevo, 1992; Stanko; A Kiss in Masaryka Street; January 31st ; Life is Beautiful; About the collection of February 30th; New Neighbours.
A selection of stories by a well-known Bosnian poet and writer from his collection "I Love Very Much", prepared for publication by "Borderland" Foundation.
MILO ANSTADT: Childhood in Lvov
An extract from the literary biography of a Dutch writer, journalist, film director and politician. The author was born in 1920 in a family of Polish Jews, in Lvov. In 1930 they emigrated to Holland. In June this year he was honoured with, awarded for the first time, Andrzej Drawicz Award. He distinguished himself by his engagement in an objective presentation of the Polish and Jewish relations in the background of European historical events, and by his publicist work and popularization of the portrait of the Polish nation as well as the history of the country from its very beginnings among the Dutch.

SIERGIEJ PARADŻANOW'S FILM STUDIO
A profile of the great Ukrainian director is presented through his letters to his wife and son, and through his critique of his own collages. We also publish the script of the film "Kiev frescoes".

NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS CONFRATERNITIES
MICHAEL HAMM: Ukrainians in Russian Kiev
The capital of Ukraine has clearly problems with its identity. Russian heritage shows, among other things, in the fact that many inhabitants use Russian and not Ukrainian language. The article presents a thorough historical analysis of the binary Russian and Ukrainian influences (cultural, political and social) in C19 and the beginnings of C20, indispen-sable for proper understanding of the contemporary situation of Ukraine.
DANUTA SOSNOWSKA: Ignorantia maxima Polonorum in rebus ukraincis
A historical sketch on Ivan Kedryn, one of the leading Ukrainian journalists who co-operated during the inter-war period with the editors of the Polish and Ukrainian Bulletin. One of the main objectives of the Bulletin was attenuation of the tension between Poland and Ukraine, and therefore the acquisition of Kedryn, a staunch supporter of the independence of Ukraine and one inclined towards radical solutions, to get engaged in the magazine published in Poland was an excellent idea. The article presents the profile of the Ukrainian journalist and, first of all, his vision of the Polish culture.
MIKOLA RIABCHUK: Eight Jews in Search of the Grand Father
An amusing journalistic account of an expedition organized by Shmuel Glasberg's eight grandsons to their grandfather's native town of Czerniowce in search of their roots. This sentimental journey becomes a perfect opportunity to focus on the paradoxes of the contemporary Ukrainian life.

OUT OF PRINT
SZYMON AN-SKI: The Destruction of Galicia. Excerpts from a Diary, 1914-1917
Before the war Galicia was inhabited by about one million Jews. In 1914, the Red Army advance destroyed completely many Jewish settlements, their inhabitants were robbed, many were killed. The published here account, like many other accounts by An-ski, a well-known playwright and collector of Yiddish folklore, is a valuable source of information about the lost world of Yiddish culture.

PERIPHERIES
JANUSZ NICZYPOROWICZ: Prophet Juice
"As far as he says it about himself - he comes from nowhere. That's why he is called Coca-Cola Cocteau. (...) The world knows him as Andy Warhol. His real name is "Andrey Varchola." His parents were Lemkos, born in Mikova, a Slovak village in the Carpathians. The author vi-sits a small town of Medzilaborce, near Warhol's parents' village, where the biggest exhibition of the artist's works is situated.
PETRO MURIANKA: The House on a Hill
"Everybody has his own myth - so do I" - the text is a literary memoir, a diary of childhood memories. The author, a well known Lemko writer, poet and activist spent his childhood in western Poland, where he and his family, just like most Lemko families, were transferred after the Second World War. A very personal and reflective account of the refugees' difficult reality.

THE MACHEJ'S FIELD
EMIL LAINE: Poems
Poems by a poet born in Kazakhstan.
KAROL MALISZEWSKI: A Child's Cry in a Dark Room
A critical sketch about the works of Emil Laine (proper name Emanuel Lastik):
"Laine's poetry makes us realize that there is no such thing as "poem beyond time" and "poet from the outside" - by his date of birth he seems to belong to the New Wave generation, but by his character and spirit either to earlier generations or those far in the future."
Mickiewicz, Słowacki and us.
The results of a questionnaire on the reception of the two great Polish Romantic bards carried out among young Polish poets in early January 1998.

MACIEJ RYCHŁY'S MUSIC STUDIO
MACIEJ RYCHŁY: The Singing Pipe
The author, a well-known musician, in his search of authenticity in the traditional music making instruments himself. He tells a story of trials to reconstruct ancient "pipes" and his musical travels around the world.

ODDS AND ENDS
JURIJ ANDRUCHOWYCZ: Paragraphs
The author - Ukrainian poet, prose writer, co-operator in the avant-garde poetic group Bu-Ba-Bu (Burlesque - Balahan - Buffooneries), pays literary visits to Harkov, Salzburg, and Vienna.
HENRYK HALKOWSKI: Being a Jew in the contemporary Krakow
An article on Polish and Jewish relations from the point of view of a Jew living in Krakow.

THE DISPLAY-PUBLICATIONS
This is the presentation of books, publishing series and CDs concerning the culture and problems of the Ukrainian culture and problems of the Ukrainian culture. There are the discussions of recent publications: albums, books, periodical and musical recordings published in Poland and abroad, devoted to the problems of the Ukrainian and Central -Eastern Europe culture.