Czytelnik Publishing House

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Czytelnik
Czytelnik Publishing House
StatusActive
Founded1944
Country of originPoland
Headquarters locationWarsaw
Official websitewww.czytelnik.pl

The Czytelnik Publishing House (Polish: Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza „Czytelnik”) is a publishing company in Poland.[1] It was established in 1944 behind the Soviet front line as the Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik" ("Czytelnik" Publishing Cooperative). As of now, it is the oldest post–World War II publisher in Poland.[2] The word czytelnik means "reader" in Polish.

Intended to be located in

PZPR until the end of Soviet domination.[3]

In 1945–48 the publishing house was under heavy influence of a committed

Communist Poland, described by Czesław Miłosz as Borejsza's "personal state-within-a-state for books and press".[4] Borejsza was removed from his role during the ousting of Władysław Gomułka in 1948, part of the Soviet-led campaign against the so-called "right-wing and nationalist deviation" in Polish Workers' Party.[5]

Presidents

  • 1944: Jerzy Borejsza
  • 1948: Jerzy Pański
  • 1952: Jan Stefczyk
  • 1955: Ludwik Kasiński
  • 1975: Stanisław Bębenek
  • 1989: Wacław Sadkowski
  • 1990: Jerzy S. Sito
  • 1991: Stefan Bratkowski
  • 1992: Marek Bogucki
  • 1994: Włodzimierz Michalak
  • 1995: Marek Żakowski[2]

Book series

  • Archiwum Kultury (English, "Culture Archive")[6]
  • Biblioteka Dwudziestolecia (English, "Library of the Interwar Period")[7]
  • Biblioteka Expressu Wieczornego (English, "Library of the Evening Express")[8]
  • Biblioteka Gazety Poznanskiej (English, "Library of Poznan Newspapers")[9]
  • Biblioteka Literatury Faktu XXX-lecia (English, "30th Anniversary of Fact Literature Library")[10]
  • Biblioteka Naukowa Mlodego Czytelnika (English, "Scientific Library of the Young Reader")
  • Biblioteka Popularnonaukowa "Mathesis Polskiej" (English, "'Polish Knowledge' Popular Science Library")
  • Biblioteka Powszechna (English, "Public Library")
  • Biblioteka Romansow i Powiesci (English, "Library of Romance and Novels")
  • Biblioteka Satyry (English, "Library of Satire")[11]
  • Biblioteka Szpilek (English, "Pins Library")[12][13]
  • Biblioteka Trybuny Wolnosci (English, "Library of Freedom Tribune")[14]
  • Biblioteka Uniwersytetow Robotniczych (English, "Library of Workers' Universities")[15]
  • Dom i Swiat (English, "Home and World")
  • Klasycy Literatury XX Wieku (English, "Classics of 20th Century Literature")
  • Kolekcja Polskiej Literatury Wspolczesnej (English, "Collection of Polish Contemporary Literature")
  • Ksiazka Nowego Czytelnika (English, "New Reader's Book")
  • Klub Dobrej Ksiazki (KDK) (English, "Good Book Club")[16]
  • Mala Biblioteczka Towarzystwa Wiedzy Powszechnej (English, "Little Library of Universal Knowledge")
  • Maly Album Malarstwa Polskiego (English, "The Small Album of Polish Painting")
  • Muzyczna Biblioteka Pedagogiczna (English, "Pedagogical Music Library")
  • Nike (English translation (from Greek): "Victory")
  • Nowy Sympozjon (English, "New Symposium")
  • Oni Zmienili Swiat (English, "They Changed the World")
  • Pamietniki kobiet (English, "Women's Diaries")[17]
  • Panorama (English, "Panorama")
  • Pejzaże Kultury (English, "Cultural Landscapes")
  • Piosenki Czytelnika (English, "Reader Songs")
  • Poeci Polscy (English, "Polish Poets")
  • Polska Krytyka Literacka (English, "Polish Literary Criticism")
  • Prace Polskiego Instytutu Socjologicznego Studium Problemow Chlopskich i Robotniczych (English, "Works of the Polish Sociological Institute of the Study of Peasants' and Workers' Problems")[18]
  • Prace Slasko-Dabrowskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciol Nauk (English, "Works of the Silesian-Dabrowski Society of Friends of Sciences")
  • Seria z Faunem (English, "Series with Faun")
  • Seria z Jamnikiem (English, "Series with a Dachshund")
  • Studia z Dziejow Mysli i Ruchu Demokratycznego (English, "Studies from the History of Thought and the Democratic Movement")
  • Symposion
  • U Podstaw Wiedzy (English, "Basic Knowledge")
  • Wiedza Powszechna (English, "Common Knowledge")
  • Wielka wojna bialych ludzi (English, "Great War of the White People") – Polish translations of World War I novels by Arnold Zweig
  • Wielkie Problemy Dziejow Czlowieka (English, "Great Problems of Human History")
  • Wzorowy Zawodowiec (English, "Exemplary Professional")
  • Z Kosmonauta (English, "From the Cosmonaut")
  • Z Prac Instytutu Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk (English, "From the works of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences")
  • Z Prac Instytutu Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (English, "From the works of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences")

References

  1. ^ "Czytelnik" website.
  2. ^ a b c History of Czytelnik
  3. ^ Marta Polaczek-Bigaj. "Robotnicza Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Prasa-Książka-Ruch" u schyłku okresu PRL i przyczyny jej likwidacji" (PDF). Nr 5 (1) 2013 (in Polish and English). Kultura i Wychowanie. Rozprawy historyczno-filozoficzne. pp. 10 of 10. Archived from the original (PDF file, direct download 2.27 MB) on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  4. ^ "Najważniejsza Borejsza", Gazeta Wyborcza, October 30, 2010 (retrieved June 3, 2013)
  5. ^ Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 p. 298
  6. ^ Archiwum Kultury, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  7. ^ Biblioteka Dwudziestolecia, worldcat.org. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Expressu Wieczornego", worldcat.org. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  9. ^ Biblioteka Gazety Poznanskiej, worldcat.org. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  10. ^ Biblioteka Literatury Faktu XXX-lecia, worldcat.org. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  11. ^ Biblioteka Satyry, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  12. ^ Zgrzebłem po kołtunie: wybór współczesnej humoreski polskiej, Google Books, google.com. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  13. ^ East European Accessions Index, Volume 2, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1953, p. 36. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  14. ^ Biblioteka Trybuny Wolnosci, worldcat.org. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  15. ^ Biblioteka Uniwersytetow Robotniczych, worldcat.org. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  16. ^ Klub Dobrej Ksiazki, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  17. ^ Pamietniki kobiet, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  18. ^ Prace Polskiego Instytutu Socjologicznego, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
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