Sarmatian Review Online

 Subject: The Sarmatian Review Online
 Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 
 
 The Sarmatian Review Online
 
 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia/
 
 ISSN 1059-5872
 
 The Sarmatian Review online is an electronic version of the print journal
 of the same title.  The Sarmatian Review is a publication of the Polish 
 Institute of Houston. It deals with Polish, Central
 and Eastern European affairs, and their implications for the United
 States. We specialize in the translation of documents. The Sarmatian
 Review is published in January, April and September

SARMATIAN REVIEW ONLINE

A Forum for Central European Cultures

The Sarmatian Review was conceived by a group of American Polish scholars
who observed a dearth of scholarly journals that would allow Polish
American points of view to be heard. The journal is designed to allow the
discourse on Central and Eastern Europe to develop in a scholarly
publication that reflects Central European and Polish American identity.

Why Sarmatian?

Sarmatia in Latin, and Sarmacja in Polish, are legendary names for Poland.
They became fashionable in the seventeenth century, designating qualities
associated with the literate citizenry of the vast Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth. Sarmatism (sarmatyzm in Polish) was a certain lifestyle
reflected in seventeenth-century Polish literature, e.g., in Jan
Chryzostom Pasek's Memoirs. In contemporary Poland, the word Sarmatian
(sarmacki) is a form of ironic self-identification, and it is used as a
synonym for the Polish character.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a large state characterized by
religious tolerance unusual in premodern Europe (hence the numerosity of
Catholic, Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and Muslim communities),
and by the election, rather than family succession, of kings. The
Commonwealth comprised four nations: Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians,
and Poles. It is this tradition of a plurality of views supported by a
distinctly Central European culture that we wish to invoke by calling our
tri-quarterly The Sarmatian Review.

 A Recent Table of Contents:
 
 	* From the Editor 
         * Sarmatian Review Index
         * Articles
                Michael S. Bernstam, Notes on the Polish economy, or the
 		meaning of recovery 
                Andrzej Nowak, Russo-Polish Historical Confrontation
 
         * Translation
                Lives Remembered: Soviet Deportations of Poles to Siberia
 	        and Kazakhstan, 1939-1942 
         * Poem
                Ferdous Shahbaz-Adel, Chechenya in my life
 
         * Book Reviews
                John J. Kulczycki, Casimir Pulaski: A Hero of the American
 	        Revolution 
                Dennis J. Dunn, Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an
 	        Iconoclast 
         * Books and Periodicals Received
         * Letters 
 
 Contact:
 
 sarmatia@rice.edu