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… that year, the Howard Wise gallery opened its show of Wen-Ying Tsai’s “Cybernetic Sculpture” in midtown Manhattan, and Polish émigré Jasia Reichardt opened her exhibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” at London’s ICA. (The “Cybernetic” in her title was intended to evoke “made by or w...

…e that met this, was not just the heroism of our people — whether it was French resistance fighters, whether it was the Polish resistance fighters, or it's the young men from Kansas City or the Midwest who stormed the beaches of Normandy, commandos in England that fought with the...

…start a pool trading shares of financial companies. Died Jan. 25 of an apparent heart attack. Stefan Kudelski, 84. The Polish-born inventor of the first professional-quality portable audio recorder, in 1951. Died Jan. 26 in Switzerland. Patty Andrews, 94. Last surviving member...

…e pharmacist. Many of the roughly 10,000 Jews who lived there had left for America in the great exodus from Russian and Polish lands at the end of the 19" century. By the time my father was born, the community had shrunk to only about 1,000. When he was two years old, a fire brok...

… a burning desire to climb to the top of the Nazi hierarchy. A clear path opened when he was appointed commander of the Polish prison Treblinka. Unbeknownst to Stangl, Treblinka was one of the Nazi’s concentration death camps. To fulfill his desire for power therefore required ha...

…e that met this, was not just the heroism of our people — whether it was French resistance fighters, whether it was the Polish resistance fighters, or it’s the young men from Kansas City or the Midwest who stormed the beaches of Normandy, commandos in England that fought with the...

…suming jurisdiction, she is not entitled to any other discovery.’’ First City, 150 F.3d at 176–77 (quoting Filus v. Lot Polish Airlines, 907 F.2d 1328, 1332 (2d Cir. 1990)). Still, the Plaintiffs must allege sufficient facts to warrant jurisdictional discovery. Robinson, 269 F.3d...

…rather than exposing its genocidal campaign against the Jews and other ethnic and religious minorities. Her hero is the Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin who invented the neologism “genocide.” He was pivotal to the new United Nations’ adoption of a convention declaring genocide...

…t. Others prefer to work late into the night. Pressure, for me and for many people, is a great incentive. Tales of the Polish Enigma code breakers, Douglas Adams’ writing deadlines and the fear of impending death in shark attack stories all force people to think in an accelerate...

…s is also an acclaimed translator, notably of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis and Euripides’ The Bacchae, as well as of the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski and the French poet Francis Ponge. He has also published several children’s books. APES One branch, | read, of a species of chimp...

… that year, the Howard Wise gallery opened its show of Wen-Ying Tsai’s “Cybernetic Sculpture” in midtown Manhattan, and Polish émigré Jasia Reichardt opened her exhibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” at London’s ICA. (The “Cybernetic” in her title was intended to evoke “made by or w...

…e pharmacist. Many of the roughly 10,000 Jews who lived there had left for America in the great exodus from Russian and Polish lands at the end of the 19" century. By the time my father was born, the community had shrunk to only about 1,000. When he was two years old, a fire brok...

…the economic gains that were made possible by a rapid changeover to free-market policies were spread unevenly among the Polish people. But the achieve- ments seemed to outweigh the deficiencies. The country's rate of growth was impressive by European standards; it was one of the...

…e that met this, was not just the heroism of our people — whether it was French resistance fighters, whether it was the Polish resistance fighters, or it’s the young men from Kansas City or the Midwest who stormed the beaches of Normandy, commandos in England that fought with the...

… Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodemist techniques and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs. In 1992, Maus won a...