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Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska is Professor of American and Comparative Literature at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her books include Polska Isaaca Bashevisa Singera – rozstanie i powrót (Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Poland: Exile and Return, 1994); Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (2001, with Antony Polonsky); Odcienie tożsamości: Literatura żydowska jako zjawisko wielojęzyczne (Shades of Identity: Jewish Literature as a Multilingual Phenomenon, 2004); Kazimierz vel Kuzmir – miasteczko różnych snów (Kazimierz vel Kuzmir: A Shtetl of Various Dreams, 2006); Tam był kiedyś mójdom . . . Księgi pamięci gmin żydowskich (My Home Used to Be There . . . Memorial Books of Jewish Communities, 2009, co-editor); Jewish Presence in Absence: The Aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland 1944-2010 (2014, co-editor); and Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 28: Jewish Writing in Poland (2016, co-editor). She has translated more than a dozen books from English and Yiddish into Polish.

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A Writer in the Spa: Identifying Jacob Glatstein’s Protagonist

Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

In his novel Ven Yash iz gekumen, Jacob Glatstein wrote a Poland both familiar and strange, and peopled it with characters based on the real-life literary figures and historians he met in the spa town of Nałęczów. 

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