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Kraków’s Christmas tree named “most iconic in the world”

Culture, News

Time Out magazine ranked Kraków’s tree ahead of the famous one at the Rockefeller Center in New York.

Carp in the bath, hay on the table and Home Alone: the most unusual Polish Christmas traditions

Culture, Insights, Society

Agata Pyka and Richard Greenhill
From talking animals to Macauley Culkin, here are seven of Poland’s most interesting Christmas traditions.

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New film on Wołyń massacres unites Poles in praise – but reconciliation with Ukraine will be harder

Culture, Insights, Politics, Society

Daniel Tilles

Daniel Tilles discusses the Wołyń massacres, the subject of a new film, and how they remain an obstacle to cordial Polish-Ukrainian relations.

Review of “Ida”: identity and freedom

Culture, Insights

Stanley Bill reviews Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and remarks on accusations of stereotyping and antisemitism

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