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“A Son of the Sun” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. A Son of the Sun is a novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to...

Is there Jewish life in Poland after the Shoah? Should there be? How do present-day Polish Jews, children and grand-children of survivors, relate both to the wartime horrors and to the glorious history of Polish Jewry which preceded them? Do they feel comfortable living as a tiny minority in an overwhelmingly Catholic country? How do their Polish and Jewish identities interact? How did living for forty...

Po euforii związanej z podpisaniem porozumień sierpniowych i powstaniem Solidarności nadchodzi ponura i trudna rzeczywistość. Polski rząd wprowadza reglamentację towarów, sklepy świecą pustkami, a premierem zostaje generał Wojciech Jaruzelski. Atmosfera roku 1981 sprawia, że niektórzy poważnie rozważają ucieczkę z Polski, zanim dojdzie do najgorszego. W grudniu zostaje ogłoszony stan wojenny, który...