Stories: Poland

Stories connected to Poland.

• Born to a peasant family, she passed herself off as a nobleman's daughter.In 17th-century Poland, Agnieszka Machówna used her literacy and knowledge of court manners to claim she was…
• Pre-production began with no director. The lead actor stepped forward.The 1924 Polish Yiddish silent film Tkies-kaf entered pre-production without a director. Lead actor Zygmunt T…
• A film about Poles and German rule was shown abroad before Warsaw.In 1908, producer Mordka Towbin made Pruska kultura, about conflicts between Poles and German authorities. Ce…
• A legal word meant 'unowned'. Poets made it mean 'abandoned'.In Jewish law, hefker refers to ownerless property. In twentieth-century Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, writers a…
• Invented for a science-fiction book. Adopted in real life.Polish writer Jacek Dukaj devised gender-neutral grammatical forms for a 2004 science-fiction novel. Some non…
• A Japanese comic about Polish history became a publishing first in Poland.Riyoko Ikeda's Ten no Hate Made tells the story of Polish prince Józef Poniatowski. Published in Japan from 1…
• Kowalski sprinted and threw in the same meetIn 2015, Polish athlete Stanisław Kowalski competed at age 105. He ran the hundred metres, put the shot and t…
• The rider’s horse is a wooden costumeIn Kraków, Poland, Lajkonik parades through the city with a wooden hobby horse fastened around his waist. Wea…