„Dziennik Polski i Dziennik Żołnierza”. Aneksy, przeglądy
„Dziennik Polski i Dziennik Żołnierza”. Aneksy, przeglądy

Summary/Abstract: “Dziennik Polski i Dziennik Żołnierza” (“The Polish Daily & Soldier’s Daily”), along the “Wiadomości” of London and the Parisian “Kultura”, was the most important periodical of the wartime independence emigration. Although very popular among emigrants, for years it had remained less known to readers in Poland. 2008 finally saw a monograph of this journal by Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk. Reading of her study Londyński „Dziennik Polski i Dziennik Żołnierza” 1944–1989. Gazeta codzienna jako środek przekazu kulturowych [London emigration’s “Dziennik Polski i Dziennik Żołnierza”, 1944–1989. A daily newspaper as a medium of cultural messages] demonstrates the culture-forming role of the journal. The Author recalls tens of names of the newspaper’s collaborators, quotes hundreds of published reviews and discussions of literary works and cultural events. In her approach, a daily newspaper becomes a record of the intellectual life of the independence emigration. My article is not a review of the book by Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk. My goal is to complement her study with a topic which has lost much of its distinctness in an enormous number of facts recalled by the author. Namely, I have paid attention to the significance of the Polish-Jewish dialogue which had been developing for many years in the pages of the London-based journal. A person to have a crucial role was Wacław Zagórski, the editor of the “Tydzień Polski” supplement. The name of Józef Lichten, who authored several dozen articles, is not mentioned in the study by the researcher of emigration press at all, the cultural activity of other Polish Jews is not sufficiently emphasized either. The book by Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk will probably remain the most comprehensive monograph of „Dziennik Polski i Dziennik Żołnierza” for many years, therefore my proposal to researchers of the emigration literature is a kind of supplement, complementing the image of the journal.

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