Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.02
Danuta Smołucha
Digital humanities is a new discipline, the emergence of which was determined by several important factors. One of them was the development of computer technologies and the possibilities offered by the automation of tasks performed by computers. The second was the progressive dataization of reality, that is, registering a large amount of information in a digital form. Also, cultural heritage has been digitalized to a great extent and can be processed by advanced algorithms. The development of digital humanities was also influenced by the very nature of contemporary culture, in which the perception of reality takes place mainly through the absorption of images. Digital humanities allows for the transmission of information in a visualized form, and its projects are of interactive and multimedia nature, which is in line with the prevailing cultural trends. The article discusses the processes which influenced the development of digital humanities in Poland over the last thirty years. An attempt is also made to answer the question of the position Poland currently holds in the international arena in the context of the dynamic development of this modern branch of the humanities in the world.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.01
D. Libionka, Philip Earl Steele
This article describes and analyzes the coalescence and subsequent evolution of the accounts of military assistance provided to the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April and May 1943. The author carefully illustrates the way these accounts, already during the war, were crafted to serve the contrasting political purposes of their differing narrators, and how the swiftly snowballing stories were thereby distorted above all by self-aggrandizement and, conversely, the belittling of ideological opponents. Indeed, in significant aspects the story-telling was outright hijacked by con men who fabricated whole episodes of coming to the ghetto's assistance. Thus, in weaving together the conflicting, often mythic accounts of Polish communists, former members of the Home Army and other underground organizations, and Jewish veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization during the postwar decades, a narrative tapestry was created—only to begin to unravel in the 1980s, to become threadbare in the 1990s, and to disintegrate in the first decade of the twenty-first century owing to thorough-going archival research. What remains is the powerlessness of those in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to meaningfully aid one another—and thereafter to come to terms with that powerlessness. The paper concludes with an admonition regarding certain of today's penchants for state-led historical policy.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.12
Slawomir Dobrzanski
{"title":"Antoni Kątski: Lew estrady XIX wieku [Antoni Kątski: Lion of the nineteenth-century stage]","authors":"Slawomir Dobrzanski","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":"108 46","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138607673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.04
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Jack J. B. Hutchens
{"title":"The Teacher","authors":"Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Jack J. B. Hutchens","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":"108 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138607684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.16
Katarzyna Zechenter
{"title":"The Polish Bookstore Orbis in London and the End of an Era","authors":"Katarzyna Zechenter","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":" 1059","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138610585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.13
Kris Salata
{"title":"Active Theatre and the Technology of the Self: Polish Caroling with Projekt Terenowy of “Wegajty” Theatre (1998–2001)","authors":"Kris Salata","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138615480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.06
Marek Cichocki
{"title":"The West Becoming “Westless” and the Polish Experience of Totalitarianism and Modernity","authors":"Marek Cichocki","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":" 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138618184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.11
Łukasz Siciński
{"title":"Polish Cinema Today: A Bold New Era in Film","authors":"Łukasz Siciński","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":"349 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138625868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.3.18
D. Batorska
{"title":"Renaissance Weddings and the Antique, Italian Domestic Paintings from the Lanckoroński Collection","authors":"D. Batorska","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.3.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.3.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43571303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}