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Polish Cultural Institute NY is <\/span>honored to <\/span>partner<\/span> <\/span>with <\/span>the <\/span>American Literary Translators Association<\/span> during 43<\/span>rd <\/span>annual <\/span>conference<\/span>,<\/span> #ALTA43: In Between, from September 30 – October 18.<\/span> <\/span>For the first time, the largest gathering in the US for literary translators has gone virtual, welcoming attendees from all over the globe. Check out <\/span>ALTA <\/span>website<\/span><\/a> to see the <\/span>schedule<\/span><\/a> of virtual events, with events about different aspects of literary translation taking place each day, culminating in a weekend of all-day conference events on October 17 and 18. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>Since <\/span>1978<\/span>, the<\/span> American Literary Translators Association<\/strong><\/span> has annually celebrated the <\/span>literary translators <\/span>of the best English translation of literature published in the previous year<\/span>s<\/span>. Taken together, the<\/span> conference<\/span> <\/span>makes<\/span> a useful roadmap for the<\/span> current<\/span> literary landscape <\/span>of translation.<\/span> <\/span>This year<\/span>, Polish and American experts in the literary field <\/span>will <\/span>share their insights on Polish<\/span> and Jewish<\/span> literature in translation.<\/span> The presenters will <\/span>provide a brief overview of the<\/span> <\/span>history background<\/span>, the uniqueness of<\/span> the<\/span> 20th century and the contemporary literature co<\/span>ming out of Poland<\/span>, focusing on<\/span> <\/span>the process of translating<\/span> <\/span>Debora Vogel<\/strong> (Anastasiya <\/span>Lyubas<\/span>) and Szczepan <\/strong><\/span>Twardoch<\/strong> (Sean Gasper Bye)<\/span> published in the United States.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cordially <\/span>invite you<\/span> to<\/span> <\/span>tak<\/span>e<\/span> part in<\/span> two <\/span>special <\/span>events during the 43<\/span>rd<\/span> ALTA conference:<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

on <\/span>October 13<\/span><\/b> at 3<\/span>:00<\/span>PM EST, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Blooming Spaces: Translating Debora <\/span>Vogel, the Gertrude Stein of Interwar Poland<\/span>\u201d<\/span> <\/span>m<\/span>oderated by <\/span>Anthony Polonsky<\/span> (Brandeis University)<\/span> and<\/span> Natalya Lazar<\/span> (US Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/span>)<\/span> with presenters: <\/span>Anastasiya <\/span>Lyubas<\/span> (University of Toronto) and Ariko Kato (Nagoya University, Japan)<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Blooming Spaces: Translating Debora Vogel, the Gertrude Stein of Interwar Poland<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:00-4:00 PM EST<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Register here<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Program brochure<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Debora Vogel<\/strong> (1900-1942) was the wandering star in literature who wrote in Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew and German. The discussion will involve the work of a strikingly original, yet overlooked author, art critic, and intellectual, and resituate Vogel as an important figure in the constellation of European modernity. Vogel\u2019s astute observations on art, literature, and psychology in her essays, her bold prose experiments inspired by photography and film, and Cubist poetry that both challenges and captivates, invite the reader on a journey of discovery – into the microcosm of the talented thinker marked by tragic fate and the macrocosm of Polish and Jewish history in the twentieth century. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Readings will include Debora Vogel’s Polish and Yiddish texts, Japanese translations by Ariko Kato, as well as English translations by Anastasiya <\/span>Lyubas<\/span> from the forthcoming collection <\/span>Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Anthony Polonsky <\/span><\/b>is emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. From 2013 he has been Chief Historian of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford, 2010, 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History (2014). He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Natalya Lazar <\/span><\/b>is<\/span> <\/span><\/b>a Program Manager of Initiative for Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in Ukraine at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM, Washington, DC). She is responsible for building scholarly programs that focus on the Holocaust as it occurred in Ukraine. Natalya Lazar holds a doctorate in political science from Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in Ukraine. In addition, she is also receiving a second PhD from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her dissertation is entitled \u201cCzernowitz Jews and the Holocaust: Interethnic Relations, Violence, and Survival in a Borderland City, 1940-1946\u201d.  She has been a recipient of several academic fellowships, including Saul Kagan Claims Fellowship for the Advanced Shoah Studies, the Black Sea Link Fellowship at the New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania), and VWS Fellowship in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the NIOD and Amsterdam University among others.  <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Anastasiya Lyubas<\/span><\/b> is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto. She is the author of <\/span>Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel<\/span><\/i> (Boston: Academic Studies Press, October 2020). This edited collection features translations of Debora Vogel’s work from Yiddish, Polish and German into English. Anastasiya is also the author of <\/span>White Words: Essays, Letters, and Reviews by Debora Vogel, <\/span><\/i>a volume in Ukrainian (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2019). Anastasiya holds a PhD from Binghamton University (2018). She was a Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center (2017-2018).\u202f<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Ariko Kato <\/span><\/b>is Associate Professor at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Japan. She is a 2019-2020 Robert A. Savitt Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is the author of an award-winning translation of Debora Vogel’s<\/span> Acacias Bloom<\/span><\/i> into Japanese (Kyoto: <\/span>Shoraisha<\/span>, 2018). Ariko also translated  <\/span>Zofia<\/span>\u202f <\/span>Na\u0142kowska’s<\/span> Medallions.<\/span><\/i> Her other publications include<\/span> Bruno Schulz,<\/span><\/i> <\/span>From Eyes to Hands <\/span><\/i>(2012 in Japanese, Polish translation in preparation). She is also an editor of<\/span> Memory of World War II in Poland and Japan:\u202f The Holocaust and Hiroshima in Comparative Perspectives<\/span><\/i> (published in Polish and Japanese, 2020).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

on\u00a0<\/span>October 18<\/span><\/b>\u00a0at 2:15<\/span>PM<\/span> EST, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Lots of Lingo: Str<\/span>a<\/span>tegies for Translating aHeteroglossic<\/span>\u00a0Novel<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0moderated by\u00a0<\/span>Madeleine Cohen (Yiddish Book Center) <\/span>with presenters:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Sean Gasper Bye<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0Sebastian Schulman<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lots of Lingo: Strategies for Translating a\u00a0Heteroglossic\u00a0Novel<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday, October 18, 2020 2:15-3:00 PM EST<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Register here<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Program brochure<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How do we translate\u00a0<\/span>heteroglossic<\/span>\u00a0texts effectively, responsibly, and engagingly? The richly detailed world of Szczepan\u00a0<\/span>Twardoch\u2019s<\/span> 2016 novel\u202f\u00a0<\/span>Kr\u00f3l<\/span><\/i>, published in Sean Gasper Bye\u2019s English translation as \u202f<\/span>The King of Warsaw<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u202f (Amazon Crossing, 2020) comes to life through gangster talk, boxing lingo, Yiddish dialects, and bad Polish. This session brings Bye together in conversation with Sebastian Schulman, who consulted on the frequent use of Yiddish, as well as Jewish terminology and cultural references, to discuss the strategies employed in this translation. The conversation takes this novel as a starting point for discussing practices relevant to translators working with texts from and about heterogenous places, as well as texts that foreground historical and cultural specificity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Madeleine Cohen<\/span><\/b>\u202f is the Academic Director of the Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, Massachusetts). Her work includes directing a fellowship program for emerging Yiddish literary translators and publishing and promoting Yiddish literature in translation. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sean Gasper Bye\u202f <\/span><\/b>translates Polish fiction, reportage, and drama. He is a winner of the\u202f <\/span>Asymptote <\/span><\/i>\u202fClose Approximations Prize and a recipient of an NEA translation fellowship. His translations of\u202f <\/span>The King of Warsaw <\/span><\/i>\u202fby Szczepan Twardoch and \u202f<\/span>Ellis Island: A People’s History <\/span><\/i>\u202fby Ma\u0142gorzata Szejnert were published in 2020.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian Schulman <\/span><\/b>\u202fis a literary translator from Yiddish, Esperanto, and other languages, and the Executive Director of KlezKanada, a leading organization in Yiddish music and culture. His translation of Spomenka Stimec\u2019s Esperanto-language novel\u202f <\/span>Croatian War Nocturnal<\/span><\/i>\u202f\u00a0 was published by Phoneme Media in 2017. <\/span>He\u00a0lives\u00a0in\u00a0Montr\u00e9al,\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Supported by the<\/span><\/i>\u00a0American Literary Translators Association and<\/span><\/i>\u00a0the Polish Cultural Institute NY<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The presenters will provide a brief overview of the history background, the uniqueness of the 20th century and the contemporary literature coming out of Poland, focusing on the process of translating Debora Vogel (Anastasiya Lyubas) and Szczepan Twardoch (Sean Gasper Bye) published in the United States. \\nWe cordially invite you to take part in two special events during the 43rd ALTA conference: \\non October 13 at 3:00PM EST, \u201cBlooming Spaces: Translating Debora Vogel, the Gertrude Stein of Interwar Poland\u201d moderated by Anthony Polonsky (Brandeis University) and Natalya Lazar (US Holocaust Memorial Museum) with presenters: Anastasiya Lyubas (University of Toronto) and Ariko Kato (Nagoya University, Japan) \\nBlooming Spaces: Translating Debora Vogel, the Gertrude Stein of Interwar Poland \\nTuesday, October 13, 2020 3:00-4:00 PM EST \\nRegister here \\nProgram brochure \\nDebora Vogel (1900-1942) was the wandering star in literature who wrote in Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew and German. The discussion will involve the work of a strikingly original, yet overlooked author, art critic, and intellectual, and resituate Vogel as an important figure in the constellation of European modernity. Vogel\u2019s astute observations on art, literature, and psychology in her essays, her bold prose experiments inspired by photography and film, and Cubist poetry that both challenges and captivates, invite the reader on a journey of discovery - into the microcosm of the talented thinker marked by tragic fate and the macrocosm of Polish and Jewish history in the twentieth century. \\nReadings will include Debora Vogel's Polish and Yiddish texts, Japanese translations by Ariko Kato, as well as English translations by Anastasiya Lyubas from the forthcoming collection Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel. \\nAnthony Polonsky is emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. From 2013 he has been Chief Historian of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford, 2010, 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History (2014). He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). \\nNatalya Lazar is a Program Manager of Initiative for Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in Ukraine at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM, Washington, DC). She is responsible for building scholarly programs that focus on the Holocaust as it occurred in Ukraine. Natalya Lazar holds a doctorate in political science from Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in Ukraine. In addition, she is also receiving a second PhD from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her dissertation is entitled \u201cCzernowitz Jews and the Holocaust: Interethnic Relations, Violence, and Survival in a Borderland City, 1940-1946\u201d. She has been a recipient of several academic fellowships, including Saul Kagan Claims Fellowship for the Advanced Shoah Studies, the Black Sea Link Fellowship at the New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania), and VWS Fellowship in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the NIOD and Amsterdam University among others. \\nAnastasiya Lyubas is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (Boston: Academic Studies Press, October 2020). This edited collection features translations of Debora Vogel's work from Yiddish, Polish and German into English. Anastasiya is also the author of White Words: Essays, Letters, and Reviews by Debora Vogel, a volume in Ukrainian (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2019). Anastasiya holds a PhD from Binghamton University (2018). She was a Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center (2017-2018).\u202f \\nAriko Kato is Associate Professor at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Japan. She is a 2019-2020 Robert A. Savitt Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is the author of an award-winning translation of Debora Vogel's Acacias Bloom into Japanese (Kyoto: Shoraisha, 2018). Ariko also translated Zofia\u202f Na\u0142kowska's Medallions. Her other publications include Bruno Schulz, From Eyes to Hands (2012 in Japanese, Polish translation in preparation). She is also an editor of Memory of World War II in Poland and Japan:\u202f The Holocaust and Hiroshima in Comparative Perspectives (published in Polish and Japanese, 2020). \\non\u00a0October 18\u00a0at 2:15PM EST, \u201cLots of Lingo: Strategies for Translating aHeteroglossic\u00a0Novel\u201d\u00a0moderated by\u00a0Madeleine Cohen (Yiddish Book Center) with presenters:\u00a0Sean Gasper Bye\u00a0and\u00a0Sebastian Schulman\u00a0\\nLots of Lingo: Strategies for Translating a\u00a0Heteroglossic\u00a0Novel\u00a0\\nSunday, October 18, 2020 2:15-3:00 PM EST\u00a0\\nRegister here\u00a0\u00a0\\nProgram brochure\u00a0\\nHow do we translate\u00a0heteroglossic\u00a0texts effectively, responsibly, and engagingly? The richly detailed world of Szczepan\u00a0Twardoch\u2019s 2016 novel\u202f\u00a0Kr\u00f3l, published in Sean Gasper Bye\u2019s English translation as \u202fThe King of Warsaw\u202f (Amazon Crossing, 2020) comes to life through gangster talk, boxing lingo, Yiddish dialects, and bad Polish. This session brings Bye together in conversation with Sebastian Schulman, who consulted on the frequent use of Yiddish, as well as Jewish terminology and cultural references, to discuss the strategies employed in this translation. The conversation takes this novel as a starting point for discussing practices relevant to translators working with texts from and about heterogenous places, as well as texts that foreground historical and cultural specificity.\u00a0\u00a0\\nMadeleine Cohen\u202f is the Academic Director of the Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, Massachusetts). Her work includes directing a fellowship program for emerging Yiddish literary translators and publishing and promoting Yiddish literature in translation. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.\u00a0\\nSean Gasper Bye\u202f translates Polish fiction, reportage, and drama. He is a winner of the\u202f Asymptote \u202fClose Approximations Prize and a recipient of an NEA translation fellowship. His translations of\u202f The King of Warsaw \u202fby Szczepan Twardoch and \u202fEllis Island: A People's History \u202fby Ma\u0142gorzata Szejnert were published in 2020.\u00a0\\nSebastian Schulman \u202fis a literary translator from Yiddish, Esperanto, and other languages, and the Executive Director of KlezKanada, a leading organization in Yiddish music and culture. His translation of Spomenka Stimec\u2019s Esperanto-language novel\u202f Croatian War Nocturnal\u202f\u00a0 was published by Phoneme Media in 2017. 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For the first time, the largest gathering in the US for literary translators has gone virtual, welcoming attendees from all over the globe. Check out ALTA website to see the schedule of virtual events, with events about different aspects of literary translation taking place each day, culminating in a weekend of all-day conference events on October 17 and 18. \n Since 1978, the American Literary Translators Association has annually celebrated the literary translators of the best English translation of literature published in the previous years. Taken together, the conference makes a useful roadmap for the current literary landscape of translation. This year, Polish and American experts in the literary field will share their insights on Polish and Jewish literature in translation. The presenters will provide a brief overview of the history background, the uniqueness of the 20th century and the contemporary literature coming out of Poland, focusing on the process of translating Debora Vogel (Anastasiya Lyubas) and Szczepan Twardoch (Sean Gasper Bye) published in the United States. \nWe cordially invite you to take part in two special events during the 43rd ALTA conference: \non October 13 at 3:00PM EST, \u201cBlooming Spaces: Translating Debora Vogel, the Gertrude Stein of Interwar Poland\u201d moderated by Anthony Polonsky (Brandeis University) and Natalya Lazar (US Holocaust Memorial Museum) with presenters: Anastasiya Lyubas (University of Toronto) and Ariko Kato (Nagoya University, Japan) \nBlooming Spaces: Translating Debora Vogel, the Gertrude Stein of Interwar Poland \nTuesday, October 13, 2020 3:00-4:00 PM EST \nRegister here \nProgram brochure \nDebora Vogel (1900-1942) was the wandering star in literature who wrote in Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew and German. The discussion will involve the work of a strikingly original, yet overlooked author, art critic, and intellectual, and resituate Vogel as an important figure in the constellation of European modernity. Vogel\u2019s astute observations on art, literature, and psychology in her essays, her bold prose experiments inspired by photography and film, and Cubist poetry that both challenges and captivates, invite the reader on a journey of discovery - into the microcosm of the talented thinker marked by tragic fate and the macrocosm of Polish and Jewish history in the twentieth century. \nReadings will include Debora Vogel's Polish and Yiddish texts, Japanese translations by Ariko Kato, as well as English translations by Anastasiya Lyubas from the forthcoming collection Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel. \nAnthony Polonsky is emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. From 2013 he has been Chief Historian of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford, 2010, 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History (2014). He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). \nNatalya Lazar is a Program Manager of Initiative for Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in Ukraine at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM, Washington, DC). She is responsible for building scholarly programs that focus on the Holocaust as it occurred in Ukraine. Natalya Lazar holds a doctorate in political science from Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in Ukraine. In addition, she is also receiving a second PhD from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her dissertation is entitled \u201cCzernowitz Jews and the Holocaust: Interethnic Relations, Violence, and Survival in a Borderland City, 1940-1946\u201d. She has been a recipient of several academic fellowships, including Saul Kagan Claims Fellowship for the Advanced Shoah Studies, the Black Sea Link Fellowship at the New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania), and VWS Fellowship in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the NIOD and Amsterdam University among others. \nAnastasiya Lyubas is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (Boston: Academic Studies Press, October 2020). This edited collection features translations of Debora Vogel's work from Yiddish, Polish and German into English. Anastasiya is also the author of White Words: Essays, Letters, and Reviews by Debora Vogel, a volume in Ukrainian (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2019). Anastasiya holds a PhD from Binghamton University (2018). She was a Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center (2017-2018).\u202f \nAriko Kato is Associate Professor at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Japan. She is a 2019-2020 Robert A. Savitt Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is the author of an award-winning translation of Debora Vogel's Acacias Bloom into Japanese (Kyoto: Shoraisha, 2018). Ariko also translated Zofia\u202f Na\u0142kowska's Medallions. Her other publications include Bruno Schulz, From Eyes to Hands (2012 in Japanese, Polish translation in preparation). She is also an editor of Memory of World War II in Poland and Japan:\u202f The Holocaust and Hiroshima in Comparative Perspectives (published in Polish and Japanese, 2020). \non\u00a0October 18\u00a0at 2:15PM EST, \u201cLots of Lingo: Strategies for Translating aHeteroglossic\u00a0Novel\u201d\u00a0moderated by\u00a0Madeleine Cohen (Yiddish Book Center) with presenters:\u00a0Sean Gasper Bye\u00a0and\u00a0Sebastian Schulman\u00a0\nLots of Lingo: Strategies for Translating a\u00a0Heteroglossic\u00a0Novel\u00a0\nSunday, October 18, 2020 2:15-3:00 PM EST\u00a0\nRegister here\u00a0\u00a0\nProgram brochure\u00a0\nHow do we translate\u00a0heteroglossic\u00a0texts effectively, responsibly, and engagingly? The richly detailed world of Szczepan\u00a0Twardoch\u2019s 2016 novel\u202f\u00a0Kr\u00f3l, published in Sean Gasper Bye\u2019s English translation as \u202fThe King of Warsaw\u202f (Amazon Crossing, 2020) comes to life through gangster talk, boxing lingo, Yiddish dialects, and bad Polish. 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