The notoriously difficult phonology of the Polish language has always caused much trouble and confusion for neighbouring nations. But what are the absolute hardest words? Germans look at Polish and ...

Serfdom (Pol. pańszczyzna) is a development of a specific feudal relationship between the landowner and the tenant, in the Western feudal system usually referred to as socage. In its most typical ...

The Polish alphabet has 32 letters, nine of which are unique. Considering that some of the letters form digraphs and even one trigraph, this adds up to a total of 17 signs, which you’ll unfortunately ...

In the exhibition 'Raw Earth, Rare Earth,' her version of an allegorical calendar, Alicja Biała presents plants as active actors in the ecosystem, capable of restoring and supporting the natural ...

Otwinowska, Monika Kucia explores how post-war Poland’s countryside kitchens transformed under socialism, migration, and ...

This Polish Christmas Eve tradition includes 12 dishes and desserts which reflect Poland's rich, multicultural culinary past.

From onion-topped flatbreads once baked in Lublin’s Jewish quarter to Zamość duck stuffed with duck and dried fruit, the ...

In celebration of the first major review of Polish animation in the six-decade history of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, ...

To celebrate Halloween, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute is making the book ‘With Stake and Spade: Vampiric Diversity in Poland’ by Łukasz Kozak available digitally. It is a compendium of knowledge about ...

There is no Polish cuisine without soured milk, sour cream, and fresh cheeses. To the uninitiated, the range of dairy foods ...

Words portray ideas, while fonts – the spirit of the times. In their book Paneuropa, Kometa, Hel (Pan-Europa, Comet, Helium), ...