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David A. Goldfarb

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Independent scholar, writer, translator in the field of Polish and comparative literature. Host and Producer of "Encounters with Polish Literature" for the Polish Cultural Institute New York. www.davidagoldfarb.com linktr.ee/davidagoldfarb

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David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ryszard Kapuściński, the founder of the modern Polish school of reportage or creative non-fiction, is up this month on "Encounters with Polish Literature." Journalist, David Samuels, tells us how his own writing and American journalism has been inspired by Polish reportage. youtu.be/dAF2viGtD8Y?...

Reportage V: Ryszard Kapuściński with David Samuels

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

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David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Talks in Buffalo this week: Thursday, Sept. 3, 5pm, Clemens 708, UBNorth Campus, "The Negro Symphony Orchestra and its Polish-Jewish Conductor, Ignatz Waghalter." Friday, Sept. 4, 5pm, Canisius University, Grupp Fireside Lounge "Encounters with Polish Literature and Cultural Diplomacy."

Poster for University at Buffalo talk, "The Negro Symphony Orchestra and its Polish-Jewish Conductor, Ignatz Waghalter, 1937-40", Thursday Sept. 3, 2026, 5pm, Clemens 708, UB North Campus

Poster for Canisius University talk, "Encounters with Polish Literature and Cultural Diplomacy," Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, 5pm, Grupp Fireside Lounge.

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Now that we have a critical mass of 5 Ukrainian women writers discussed on “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature,” please check out our new playlist of Ukrainian Women Writers for Women in Translation Month. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Encounters with Ukrainian Women Writers - YouTube

Ukrainian women writers discussed on “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” Also, please check out our playlist of Polish Women Writers at https:...

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

August is Women in Translation month. Check out the latest update to the playlist of Polish Women Writers discussed on “Encounters with Polish Literature.” We’re up to 17 so far with more to come. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Encounters with Polish Women Writers - YouTube

Episodes of “Encounters with Polish Literature” featuring women writers, sponsored by The Polish Cultural Institute New York.

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Polish sci-fi writer Jacek Dukaj’s massive novel, “Ice,” dives deep into a futuristic past of alternative history and alternative physics. Listen to my conversation with this year’s Found-in-Translation Award winner, Ursula Phillips. youtu.be/7-7VW8IjXpc?...

Jacek Dukaj with Ursula Phillips – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Benjamin Paloff (UMich) and I discuss the marriage plot and cultural and class conflict in plays by Aleksander Fredro, Stanisław Wyspiański, and Stanisław Przybyszewski in the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” #1 in our new drama series. youtu.be/0xv_Vu6Rs5U?...

Playwrights 1—Fredro, Wyspiański, and Przybyszewski–Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Cyprian Kamil Norwid, the *4th* of the 3 Polish Romantic bards is the subject of the most recent episode of "Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature." Norwid bridged Romanticism and Modernism in Polish poetry and advocated for the abolition of slavery in the US. youtu.be/jgpGS3ZOpiQ?...

Cyprian Kamil Norwid with George G. Grabowicz – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

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David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Stefan Żeromski (1864-1925) was his era's "conscience of Poland." In the latest episode of "Encounters with Polish Literature," meet Stephanie Kraft, translator of "The Homeless," a deeply humane portrait of a doctor who challenges his colleagues to advocate for the poor. youtu.be/MAf56TU2wQg?...

Stefan Żeromski with Stephanie Kraft – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature – S6E5

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Polish Queer novel really came out in the early 2000s with Michał Witkowski’s “Lubiewo” (“Lovetown”). Catch my conversation with translator Bill Martin on the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” youtu.be/kbVpQYegevo?...

Michał Witkowski with William Martin

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Szymborska, Miłosz, Herbert, Różewicz, and Zagajewski are familiar to readers of Polish poetry in translation, but what’s up today? Catch my discussion with poets Julia Fiedorczuk and Tadeusz Dąbrowski on “Encounters with Polish Literature.” youtu.be/GY9KQ0ID1eo?...

Julia Fiedorczuk and Tadeusz Dąbrowski – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Andrzej Bobkowski was one of Poland’s great 20th-c. writers who would only gain recognition after the end of censorship. Translator Grażyna Drabik joins me to discuss his search for refuge in French culture in the midst of barbarism on “Encounters with Polish Literature,” youtu.be/sEnXrgEvH70?...

Andrzej Bobkowski with Grażyna Drabik – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

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David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz is the most important 20thC Polish writer you don’t know, though you may know his work from Wajda’s MAIDS OF WILKO or THE BIRCH GROVE, Kawalerowicz’s MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS or Szymanowski’s KING ROGER. More on ENCOUNTERS WITH POLISH LITERATURE youtu.be/Os_F5x_MAP4?...

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz with Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Benjamin Paloff

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Rachel Auerbach was a catalyst of Jewish modernism who dedicated her life to preserving and publicizing witness testimony of the Holocaust. Listen to my chat with historian Samuel Kassow about Auerbach and her "Warsaw Testament" on "Encounters with Polish Literature." youtu.be/Zj_sQQV8vSY?...

Rachela Auerbach with Samuel Kassow – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

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David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Hanna Krall found her voice as one of the founders of the Polish school of reportage by telling the stories of her generation of Jews who survived the Holocaust as children. Catch my discussion with Sean Bye on “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” youtu.be/l7QAJms6BH8?...

Reportage IV: Hanna Krall with Sean Bye – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature S5E11

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Binge the entire series of "Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature" with this handy new playlist at-- www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute New York

Encounters with Polish Literature: Full Series - YouTube

Binge the entire series from beginning to end or pick and choose your favorite authors and topics in Polish literature. For introductory pages and bibliograp...

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Jerzy Kosiński (“Being There,” “The Painted Bird”), subject of Agnieszka Holland’s next film, is the topic of the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish Literature.” Kosiński was an American cold war émigré sensation inextricable from his Polish context. youtu.be/VgBKrh724X4?...

Jerzy Kosiński with Irena Grudzińska Gross – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature S5E10

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

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David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Ryszard Krynicki, one of Poland’s most prominent poets, is the subject of the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish Literature.” Clare Cavanagh offers her insights on the texts and discusses her long interaction with Krynicki. youtu.be/anEo08jDrXE?...

Ryszard Krynicki with Clare Cavanagh – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature S5E9

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Bolesław Prus, “The Doll”: A man of the rising middle class in possession of a fortune in want of a wife of the declining gentry in cosmopolitan Warsaw. Empires at war, money to be made, but politics roil just below the surface. Bonus: The “crisis in literacy.” youtu.be/kOP3P7uyUJQ?...

Bolesław Prus – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature S5E8

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Oksana Lutsyshyna is one of Ukraine’s most interesting writers with two novels and one collection of poetry in English translation and several major Ukrainian prizes. Catch our conversation on the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” youtu.be/B9keypXZIWI?...

Oksana Lutsyshyna – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature – S5E7

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Juliusz Słowacki, the Polish Romantic bard, may have been a great patriot or a great mystic, George Grabowicz (Harvard) offers another way in by looking at Słowacki as part of the Ukrainian School in Polish Romanticism on “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” youtu.be/ONqE33t84DQ?...

Juliusz Słowacki with George G. Grabowicz – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Sofia Andrukhovych is one of the most celebrated novelists being translated from Ukrainian into English right now. Get a preview of her novel out soon, “Felix Austria,” and her magnum opus, “Amadoka” on the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature” youtu.be/4U4qDVkB8wM?...

Sofia Andrukhovych with Vitaly Chernetsky – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Congrats to Tomasz Różycki and Mira Rosenthal on winning the 2025 PEN Translation Prize for poetry, for Mira’s translation of “To the Letter” from Archipelago Books. Catch my recent conversation with Tomasz and Krystyna Dąbrowska on “Encounters with Polish Literature.” youtu.be/dkV_mmJaVWs?...

Krystyna Dąbrowska and Tomasz Różycki – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

What better day than the anniversary of the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 to think about the Enlightenment in Poland? youtu.be/cALH99-KLyU?...

Ignacy Krasicki with Bożena Shallcross – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature – S5E4

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Ignacy Krasicki, Enlightenment author of Poland's 1st novel, "The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom": a critique of the urbanized gentry and a utopian vision of the state of nature, inspired by Voltaire and Rousseau. On "Encounters with Polish Literature" youtu.be/cALH99-KLyU?...

Ignacy Krasicki with Bożena Shallcross – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature – S5E4

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

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David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Jan Kochanowski, Renaissance poet, is the subject of episode 50 of “Encounters with Polish Literature” with translator and scholar, Barry Keane. We focus on the “Laments” (“Treny”) and his political play, “The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys.” youtu.be/vnYMGx1P7K4?...

Jan Kochanowski with Barry Keane – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature – S5E3

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Interview with Agata Tuszyńska on becoming and being a writer. w-insight.com/2025/03/12/o...

Overcoming Writer’s Block: Tips from Agata Tuszyńska

Known in Poland for her biographies of bold and unconventional figures such as Warsaw Ghetto singer Vera Gran, feminist icon Irena Krzywicka, writer Leopold Tyrmand, and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashev…

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Listen to my conversation about Papusza, Poland's most prominent Roma poet, with Emilia Kledzik, author of a controversial reassessment of Polish scholarship on Roma culture, on "Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature." youtu.be/NlGe3cgpgRk?...

Papusza with Emilia Kledzik – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature – S5E2

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

New NEH grant restrictions-- • promotion of gender ideology • promotion of discriminatory equity ideology • support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities • environmental justice initiatives or activities

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day I'd like to invite you to listen to my discussion of the work of Tadeusz Borowski with Irena Grudzińska Gross. Borowski was not Jewish, but wrote some of the most searing accounts of life in Auschwitz. youtu.be/ABlalV8_zr8?...

Tadeusz Borowski with Irena Grudzińska Gross – Encounters with Polish Literature – S5E1

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Remember when the only A-list entertainment at the inauguration was this performer singing a song about a guy who just got out of prison after doing "three long years" for robbery? youtu.be/P8be_wL74DM?...

Tony Orlando Inauguration Liberty & Freedom Ball January 20, 2017

YouTube video by Carolyn Lehmann

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Poetry in the age of Miłosz, Herbert, Szymborska, and Zagajewski was one of Poland’s main exports, but what’s happening today? Join me on “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature” with two of Poland’s leading poets, Krystyna Dąbrowska and Tomasz Różycki. youtu.be/dkV_mmJaVWs?...

Krystyna Dąbrowska and Tomasz Różycki – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Tulsi Gabbard's deep ties to the Science of Identity cult discussed in Civil Beat, Hawai'i's leading source for investigative jounalism. www.civilbeat.org?p=1685310&ut...

Senators Urged To Examine Gabbard's 'Deep and Intense' Ties To Hawaiʻi Sect

Senators Urged To Examine Gabbard's Ties To Sect

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Slavists who may have been frantically writing papers for ASEEES in Boston when announcements went out for the latest episode of "Encounters with Polish Literature," catch my conversation with Agi Legutko about Isaac Bashevis Singer, women, Yiddish in Poland, translation +. youtu.be/dctFk1QCbyM?...

Isaac Bashevis Singer with Agi Legutko – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature S4E11

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I think this is the first translation in book form of Papusza, Poland's most prominent Roma poet, into English. It is her memoir of the massacre of Roma in Volhynia during WWII. Download the book for free. It's open access-- brill.com/display/titl...

Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood

"Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood" published on 18 Nov 2024 by Brill | Schöningh.

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Isaac Bashevis Singer is the topic of the latest episode of "Encounters with Polish Literature." Agi Legutko (Columbia U) and I discuss the status of women in Singer's writing and how to think about a Yiddish writer in the multicultural context of Polish literature. youtu.be/dctFk1QCbyM?...

Isaac Bashevis Singer with Agi Legutko – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature S4E11

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Folks who know me from xwitter know that I post about Polish and sometimes Ukrainian literature with announcements of new episodes of my video series, "Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature" hosted on YouTube by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.