tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142857971379251277.post2288882377731879556..comments2024-02-26T06:54:13.679-08:00Comments on Writing the Polish Diaspora: Bill Johnston's New Poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz Wins Translation AwardJohn Guzlowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142857971379251277.post-57261262229382519042008-11-17T11:07:00.000-08:002008-11-17T11:07:00.000-08:00Thank you for letting me now about this book.I wil...Thank you for letting me now about this book.<BR/><BR/>I will definitely try to find a copy.John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142857971379251277.post-81699995201587352522008-06-02T09:15:00.000-07:002008-06-02T09:15:00.000-07:00Thanks for all the great reviews of Polish Authors...Thanks for all the great reviews of Polish Authors. Have you ever considered reviewing Mother and Me: Escape From Warsaw 1939 by Polish-American author Julian Padowicz?<BR/><BR/>In Mother and Me: Escape From Warsaw 1939, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award Winner in 2006, author Julian Padowicz gives a first hand account of the struggles he faced with his mother, Basia, as a Jew in Warsaw when the bombings began in the fall of 1939. Only seven years old at the beginning of the story, Julian had already become estranged from his mother.<BR/> Before the bombs began to fall, Julian’s mother, a Warsaw socialite who had no interest in child-rearing, turned her son completely over to his governess, a good Catholic, named Kiki, whom he loved with all his heart. Kiki was deeply worried about Julian’s immortal soul, explaining that he could go to heaven only if he became a Catholic.<BR/> Julian’s world completely changed when the bombings of Warsaw began. Kiki returned to her family, and Julian was left with Basia, the mother he barely knew.<BR/> Resourceful and determined, his mother did whatever was necessary to provide for herself and her son: she brazenly cut into food lines and befriended Russian officers to get extra rations of food and fuel. But because he had been brought up by Kiki to distrust all things Jewish, Julian considered his mother’s behavior un-Christian.<BR/> In a heartfelt tale of emotion and, at times, humor, Mother and Me: Escape From Warsaw 1939 (Academy Chicago Publishers, 978-0-89733-570-6, 415pp, Paperback, $18.95) Julian wrestles with his identity in the midst of the horror of World War II. As conditions worsen in Warsaw, Basia and Julian make their dramatic escape to Hugary through the Carpathian mountains and Julian comes to believe that even Jews can go to Heaven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com