Life in America 1950s — meeting with Barbara Krupa

A meeting with Barbara Brygida Krupa dedicated to Zygmunt Haupt's book Publicystyka (Publicystyka Zygmunt Haupt) on the air of Voice of America between 1951 and 1960 (Wydawnictwo UMK 2026).

Zygmunt Haupt worked for the radio station Głos América between 1951 and 1958. His broadcasts were devoted to literary, cultural and scientific life in the USA. Most of them are strictly informative and popularizing, however, stories about texts, genres and literary and musical currents are of particular value. There were also programs on the air that introduced the customs and everyday life of Americans. Barbara Brygida Krupa's publication was based on the scripts of broadcasts that were part of the writer's archive in the Special Collections Collection of the C.H. Green Library at Stanford University in California.

Guests:

Barbara Krupa — librarian, journalist and translator. Since 2000, she has been working at the Stanford University Library, where she was associated with the Slavic and Eastern European Collection for many years, and is currently engaged in digitizing the collections. Member of the group of hauptologists dealing with the work and character of Zygmunt Haupt. She has published in collective works and scientific journals in Poland and the United States. In addition, she is a member of the editorial boards of the journals “Slavic & East European Information Resources” and “Studies into the History of the Book and Book Collections”. She also serves as editor of the book review department published in Poland in the journal “Polish American Studies”.

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Prof. Dr. Jakub Tyszkiewicz — is the author of numerous publications devoted to the relations of the United States with Poland and other countries dependent on the Kremlin after World War II. Among them, it is worth mentioning the monograph The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc: US Policy toward Poland, 1956—1968 and his collective volume Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe: Between the Helsinki Accords and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Both books were published by the prestigious Routledge publishing house. He is a recipient of several prestigious American scholarships, including Fulbright (2015/2016) and Victims of Communism Foundation (2019/2020). He has repeatedly lectured at American (Amherst University, University of Washington in Seattle) and Israeli (Hebrew University in Jerusalem) universities.

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