Bearing witness
Subtitle: a personal perspective on sixty years of Polish history
By: Maria Jarosz ; translated by Steven Stoltenberg and Grzegorz Siwicki
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Brunswick, New Jersey; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781412855952
Subjects: Sociologists; Biography; Women sociologists; Jewish sociologists; History; Social conditions
Work titles: Obyś żył w ciekawych czasach
Notes: "Originally published in 2009 by Oficyna Naukowa"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From the author; title: Marked by the past; title: A sociologist and a witness to history; title: 1939 : war breaks out; title: Shut off from life : the Lodz ghetto; title: Warsaw in the 1940s : the ghetto and the "Aryan side"; title: The Warsaw ghetto; title: Occupied Warsaw; title: Szmalcownicy and heroes; title: First decade of communism; title: Poland or France?; title: My universities; title: 1956 : workers' councils, Gozdzik, and Gomulka; title: First steps in academia; title: Workers' councils : the case of Zeran; title: Yugoslavia : oddities and infatuation; title: 1968 and the aftermath : excluded from society; title: Forced into unemployment; title: Emotional aspect of the march purges; title: GUS : the job I didn't want and the research I dreamed of; title: Up against the censors; title: Varna congress : changing Soviet research priorities; title: Postdoctoral qualification; title: Martial law : signs of social disintegration; title: Institute of crime problems : solidarity and the people in power; title: Martial law and the ghosts of the war; title: The state of society as reflected by the suicide rate; title: Polish Academy of Sciences and adventures with research; title: An unusual grant; title: Empirical research in a free Poland : being part of the research community; title: Democratic Poland : winners and losers; title: 1989 : the round table; title: The costs of transition; title: Social disorganization and corruption; title: Corruption : personal experience; title: Bribing the Mexican police; title: Greasing palms in a communist hospital; title: Greasing palms in a postcommunist hospital : pay or perish; title: A view from abroad : food for thought; title: On the go : by rail and air; title: Airport adventure : hijack attempt; title: In France; title: In Ukraine; title: In China; title: In Vietnam; title: In Japan; title: In Cuba; title: In Israel; title: about Poland; title: In Italy; title: In Germany; title: America : the Polish perspective; title: Ethnic hodgepodge : a politically correct family; title: Facts of life : cops and robbers, lost and found, and the pernicious; title: Effects of too much alcohol; title: Closing reflections : the world has changed.