@davidagoldfarb.bsky.social
Independent scholar, writer, translator in the field of Polish and comparative literature. Host and Producer of "Encounters with Polish Literature" for the Polish Cultural Institute New York. www.davidagoldfarb.com
Jerzy Kosiński (“Being There,” “The Painted Bird”), subject of Agnieszka Holland’s next film, is the topic of the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish Literature.” Kosiński was an American cold war émigré sensation inextricable from his Polish context.
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Ryszard Krynicki, one of Poland’s most prominent poets, is the subject of the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish Literature.” Clare Cavanagh offers her insights on the texts and discusses her long interaction with Krynicki.
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Bolesław Prus, “The Doll”: A man of the rising middle class in possession of a fortune in want of a wife of the declining gentry in cosmopolitan Warsaw. Empires at war, money to be made, but politics roil just below the surface.
Bonus: The “crisis in literacy.”
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Oksana Lutsyshyna is one of Ukraine’s most interesting writers with two novels and one collection of poetry in English translation and several major Ukrainian prizes. Catch our conversation on the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” youtu.be/B9keypXZIWI?...
01.07.2025 19:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Juliusz Słowacki, the Polish Romantic bard, may have been a great patriot or a great mystic, George Grabowicz (Harvard) offers another way in by looking at Słowacki as part of the Ukrainian School in Polish Romanticism on “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” youtu.be/ONqE33t84DQ?...
17.06.2025 18:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Sofia Andrukhovych is one of the most celebrated novelists being translated from Ukrainian into English right now. Get a preview of her novel out soon, “Felix Austria,” and her magnum opus, “Amadoka” on the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature”
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Also catch my conversation with 2025 PEN Translation Prize winner, Mira Rosenthal, on Zuzanna Ginczanka on "Encounters with Polish Literature" @PolishInstNY youtu.be/68L0y04Ypi4?...
09.05.2025 18:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to Tomasz Różycki and Mira Rosenthal on winning the 2025 PEN Translation Prize for poetry, for Mira’s translation of “To the Letter” from Archipelago Books. Catch my recent conversation with Tomasz and Krystyna Dąbrowska on “Encounters with Polish Literature.” youtu.be/dkV_mmJaVWs?...
09.05.2025 18:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Hi, Galya!
03.05.2025 20:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What better day than the anniversary of the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 to think about the Enlightenment in Poland? youtu.be/cALH99-KLyU?...
03.05.2025 20:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ignacy Krasicki, Enlightenment author of Poland's 1st novel, "The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom": a critique of the urbanized gentry and a utopian vision of the state of nature, inspired by Voltaire and Rousseau. On "Encounters with Polish Literature"
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Jan Kochanowski, Renaissance poet, is the subject of episode 50 of “Encounters with Polish Literature” with translator and scholar, Barry Keane. We focus on the “Laments” (“Treny”) and his political play, “The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys.” youtu.be/vnYMGx1P7K4?...
13.03.2025 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interview with Agata Tuszyńska on becoming and being a writer.
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He looks like a turtle drawing its head into its shell.
02.03.2025 07:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Listen to my conversation about Papusza, Poland's most prominent Roma poet, with Emilia Kledzik, author of a controversial reassessment of Polish scholarship on Roma culture, on "Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature."
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New NEH grant restrictions--
• promotion of gender ideology
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• support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities
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Keep pushing @repstansbury. It's about time.
09.02.2025 09:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day I'd like to invite you to listen to my discussion of the work of Tadeusz Borowski with Irena Grudzińska Gross. Borowski was not Jewish, but wrote some of the most searing accounts of life in Auschwitz. youtu.be/ABlalV8_zr8?...
27.01.2025 22:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Remember when the only A-list entertainment at the inauguration was this performer singing a song about a guy who just got out of prison after doing "three long years" for robbery? youtu.be/P8be_wL74DM?...
19.01.2025 19:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poetry in the age of Miłosz, Herbert, Szymborska, and Zagajewski was one of Poland’s main exports, but what’s happening today?
Join me on “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature” with two of Poland’s leading poets, Krystyna Dąbrowska and Tomasz Różycki.
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The latest on why we should be concerned about Tulsi Gabbard's ties to the Science of Identity cult-- www.civilbeat.org?p=1685310&ut...
11.12.2024 17:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In Polish, it would be spelled "Czołgosz," and would be pronounced CHOW-gosh, where the first syllable rhymes with "show" (not with "chow," as it might appear).
11.12.2024 07:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tulsi Gabbard's deep ties to the Science of Identity cult discussed in Civil Beat, Hawai'i's leading source for investigative jounalism. www.civilbeat.org?p=1685310&ut...
10.12.2024 20:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
She and her family belong to a cult called “Science of Identity” that has been angling for political power for decades, first through her father, Mike Gabbard, who is a Hawai’i state senator. The deepest local reporting on this is at www.meanwhileinhawaii.org/home/investi...
07.12.2024 19:04 — 👍 22 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1All part of the family business.
30.11.2024 22:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Best local investigative reporting on Gabbard's cult ties is at-- www.meanwhileinhawaii.org/home/investi...
30.11.2024 08:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well done! We needed this thing. Thanks!
26.11.2024 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Slavists who may have been frantically writing papers for ASEEES in Boston when announcements went out for the latest episode of "Encounters with Polish Literature," catch my conversation with Agi Legutko about Isaac Bashevis Singer, women, Yiddish in Poland, translation +. youtu.be/dctFk1QCbyM?...
26.11.2024 21:22 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, I’ve been dubious of Threads. Seemed slapped together when meta saw that twitter needed competition. I never bothered with it.
21.11.2024 04:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'd be particularly concerned about her ties to the religious cult called "Science of Identity," which has also been the source of some of her key staff members. Best local reporting on this is at www.meanwhileinhawaii.org/home/investi...
20.11.2024 22:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
