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His Holiness Pope John Paul II
A Commemorative Volume of Essays
from the Members of the Polish Institute
of Arts and Sciences of America
Articles of several distinguished members and friends of PIASA, many of whom were fortunate enough to have met the Holy Father both before and after his election to the Holy See, are compiled in this special work. They include Piotr S. Wandycz, PIASA President and Bradford Durfee Professor of History at Yale University Emeritus, Thaddeus V. Gromada, PIASA Executive Director and Professor Emeritus of European History and coordinator of Multi-Ethnic and Immigrant Studies at New Jersey City University, Kazimierz Braun, Professor of Theater at State University of New York of Buffalo, Richard J. Hunter, Jr. and Hector R. Lozada, faculty fellows of the Institute for International Business at the W. Paul Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, Rev. Janusz A. Ihnatowicz, Professor Emeritus of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, and Harold D. Segel, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Literatures and of Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Likewise, the pride of the present collection written especially for this book includes articles by Krzysztof Zanussi, one of the most important film directors in Europe and a personal friend of Pope John Paul II, His Excellency Archbishop Józef Zycinski of Lublin, Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, the poet Boleslaw Taborski, one of the Pope's major translators, and author of an important study of Karol Wojtyla as an artist of the word, Rev. George Huntston Williams, formerly Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, Joseph Lichten, a tireless proponent of respectful Jewish-Catholic relations, and finally, the prophetic poem of Juliusz Slowacki, one of the leading poets of Romantic Polish literature. |
