Beth Holmgren
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beth Holmgren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmgren |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMGREN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4194-5804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The American Identities of Krystyna Bierzyńska Stamper
This article analyzes the amazing evolution of Krystyna Bierzyńska (1928–2025) after World War II, focusing primarily on her settlement in the United States and the diverse identities she adopted over the next seventy-four years. Qualified to enter America in 1951 as an Allied co-combatant with her first husband, Evgenii (Genek) Boruszczak, she opted to settle in Southern California, where she hoped to blaze her own trail as an American citizen w…
Hanna Polak's Documentaries of Russia's Lost Souls
Among the increasing numbers of Polish female doc makers winning awards at international festivals since the 2010s, Hanna Polak stands out as a successful director whose progress has been both circuitous and exceptional. This essay tracks how Polak became a documentarian during the years she spent in post-Soviet Moscow, making films that initially served and then eclipsed her charity work for homeless children in the capital and squatters forced …
Rethinking the Biography of the Actor and Entertainer
Instroduction to essay cluster on new methods of biographical writing/performing
Ellis Island
Małgorzata Szejnert (1936–), a prize-winning journalist, cofounder of Gazeta Wyborcza, and for fifteen years (1990–2005) the editor of that newspaper's reportaż section (Duży format), has just had her first of many books translated into English. In the frank fashion befitting a master of nonfictional, personalized Polish reportaż, Szejnert explains that she wrote Ellis Island: A People's History to fill an important gap for Polish-language reader…
The Jews in the Band
Sztuka kochania
Sztuka kochania: Historia Michaliny Wisłockiej (The Art of Loving: The Story of Michalina Wisłocka). dir. Maria Sadowska, 2017. Warsaw: Agora SA, TVN SA, Orange SA, Watchout Studio, Plast Service Pack. 117 min. zł 29.99. - Volume 79 Issue 1
Cabaret Nation
Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures
The Polish Hearst
In Memoriam - Stanisław Barańczak November 13, 1946–December 26, 2014
Other| October 01 2015 In Memoriam - Stanisław Barańczak November 13, 1946–December 26, 2014 Beth Holmgren Beth Holmgren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2015) 60 (3): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.60.3.0125 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Beth Holmgren; In Memoriam - Stanisław Barańczak November 13, 1946–December 26, 201…
Collecting the Show on the Road
The article introduces and then gives a transcription of an interview with Anna Mieszkowska, an archivist at the Polish Academy of Sciences who specializes in collecting materials relating to Polish cabaret of the interwar and wartime era. The introduction justifies the historical and cultural importance of her work and outlines the materials housed in this unique archive and how they are organized. In the interview, Mieszkowska chronicles her ef…
Toward an Understanding of Gendered Agency in Contemporary Russia
Assessments of Russian women’s current social and political status must take into account the complicated legacy of Soviet women’s “emancipation.” Although the Soviet government enforced women’s access to higher education and a broad array of professional opportunities, it never challenged traditional notions of masculinity and femininity, or the double burden tacitly assigned women. It did not invest in products and services that would have ease…
Warsaw 2013
Acting Out
In the turbulent context of interwar Polish politics, a period bookended by the right-wing nationalists’ repression of an ethnically heterogeneous state, several popular high-quality cabarets persisted in Warsaw even as they provoked and defied the nationalists’ harsh criticism. In their best, most influential incarnation, Qui pro Quo (1919–1932) and its successors, these literary cabarets violated the right’s value system through their shows’ in…
Starring Madame Modjeska
The life and times of Helena Modjeska
The Art of Playing Patriot
When Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's premier actress, quit the Warsaw Imperial Theaters in 1876 for a year's leave of absence in the United States, she secretly planned an English-language debut in San Francisco, a sophisticated yet less demanding theatre town than New York. Her triumph under the Americanized name of Modjeska at the California Theater in August 1877 led to almost three decades of American stardom and critical acclaim as the greates…
The Blue Angel and Blackface
Cossack Cowboys, Mad Russians
The Russian Reading Revolution
Afterword
The Tragic Menagerie
Rewriting Capitalism
The publishing business in fin-de-siècle Russia and the Kingdom of Poland -- The problem of the merchant in Russian literature -- The doll-nation of Polish capitalism -- The birth of the middlebrow? Russian and Polish romances -- The icon and the ad : the marketing of Russian literature -- Patronized saints : polonizing the literary market -- As the market turns, 1890s-1990s
Rewriting Capitalism
Entertaining Tsarist Russia. Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads and Images from Russian Urban Life 1779-1917
This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban culture and the individuals and groups that produced and consumed it. The selections translated here illustrate in colorful detail how the experiences and the composition of Russian society and culture evolved from the late eighteenth century through the 1917 revolution, in response to economic, technological, and political changes. Fortunetelling and etiq…
Rewriting Capitalism
Acting Out
In the turbulent context of interwar Polish politics, a period bookended by the right-wing nationalists’ repression of an ethnically heterogeneous state, several popular high-quality cabarets persisted in Warsaw even as they provoked and defied the nationalists’ harsh criticism. In their best, most influential incarnation, Qui pro Quo (1919–1932) and its successors, these literary cabarets violated the right’s value system through their shows’ in…
The Art of Playing Patriot
When Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's premier actress, quit the Warsaw Imperial Theaters in 1876 for a year's leave of absence in the United States, she secretly planned an English-language debut in San Francisco, a sophisticated yet less demanding theatre town than New York. Her triumph under the Americanized name of Modjeska at the California Theater in August 1877 led to almost three decades of American stardom and critical acclaim as the greates…
The Polish Hearst
The Blue Angel and Blackface
A Chekhov Companion
Witold Gombrowicz within the Wieszcz Tradition
The Transfiguring of Context in the Work of Abram Terts
In particular, I am very interested in the problem of prose, prose as space.Andrei SiniavskiiIn 1974, soon after his expulsion from the Soviet Union, the literary scholar Andrei Siniavskii once again deferred to his created alter ego, the writer Abram Terts, to pass provocative judgment on the Soviet literary scene. The essay ascribed to Terts, "Literaturnyi protsess v Rossii," reviews unofficial Soviet literature to highlight its artistic (rathe…
Women's Work in Stalin's Time
Why Russian Girls Loved Charskaia
In 1912 the large publishing firm of M. O. Vol'f began advertising a pamphlet by Viktor Rusakov entitled Why Do Children Love Charskaia? Almost certainly a promotional ploy (the subject was one of Vol'f's authors), this publication also marked the achieved commercial success of the writer Lidiia Charskaia (1875-1937). Since her literary debut in 1901, Charskaia (a pseudonym for Churilova) had quickly emerged as the mainstay of the popular childre…
Women's Works in Stalin's Time
Patronized Saints
"Framing "Anna Karenina
Russia ∗ Women ∗ Culture
Introduction by Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren Part I: Spiritual Facilitations 1. The Second Fantasy Mother, or All Baths Are WomenOs BathsNNancy Condee 2. The Ritual Fabrics of Russian Village WomenNMary B. Kelly Part II: Body Works 3. Keeping A-breast of the Waist-land: WomenOs Fashion in Early-Nineteenth-Century RussiaNHelena Goscilo 4. Female Fashion, Soviet Style: Bodies of IdeologyNOlOga Vainshtein 5. Getting under Their Skin: The Beauty …
Rewriting Capitalism
Rewriting Capitalism
Entertaining Tsarist Russia. Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads and Images from Russian Urban Life 1779-1917
This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban culture and the individuals and groups that produced and consumed it. The selections translated here illustrate in colorful detail how the experiences and the composition of Russian society and culture evolved from the late eighteenth century through the 1917 revolution, in response to economic, technological, and political changes. Fortunetelling and etiq…
The Tragic Menagerie
Rewriting Capitalism
The publishing business in fin-de-siècle Russia and the Kingdom of Poland -- The problem of the merchant in Russian literature -- The doll-nation of Polish capitalism -- The birth of the middlebrow? Russian and Polish romances -- The icon and the ad : the marketing of Russian literature -- Patronized saints : polonizing the literary market -- As the market turns, 1890s-1990s
The Russian Reading Revolution
Afterword
Cossack Cowboys, Mad Russians
The Blue Angel and Blackface
The Art of Playing Patriot
When Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's premier actress, quit the Warsaw Imperial Theaters in 1876 for a year's leave of absence in the United States, she secretly planned an English-language debut in San Francisco, a sophisticated yet less demanding theatre town than New York. Her triumph under the Americanized name of Modjeska at the California Theater in August 1877 led to almost three decades of American stardom and critical acclaim as the greates…
Starring Madame Modjeska
The life and times of Helena Modjeska
Acting Out
In the turbulent context of interwar Polish politics, a period bookended by the right-wing nationalists’ repression of an ethnically heterogeneous state, several popular high-quality cabarets persisted in Warsaw even as they provoked and defied the nationalists’ harsh criticism. In their best, most influential incarnation, Qui pro Quo (1919–1932) and its successors, these literary cabarets violated the right’s value system through their shows’ in…
Toward an Understanding of Gendered Agency in Contemporary Russia
Assessments of Russian women’s current social and political status must take into account the complicated legacy of Soviet women’s “emancipation.” Although the Soviet government enforced women’s access to higher education and a broad array of professional opportunities, it never challenged traditional notions of masculinity and femininity, or the double burden tacitly assigned women. It did not invest in products and services that would have ease…
Warsaw 2013
Collecting the Show on the Road
The article introduces and then gives a transcription of an interview with Anna Mieszkowska, an archivist at the Polish Academy of Sciences who specializes in collecting materials relating to Polish cabaret of the interwar and wartime era. The introduction justifies the historical and cultural importance of her work and outlines the materials housed in this unique archive and how they are organized. In the interview, Mieszkowska chronicles her ef…
In Memoriam - Stanisław Barańczak November 13, 1946–December 26, 2014
Other| October 01 2015 In Memoriam - Stanisław Barańczak November 13, 1946–December 26, 2014 Beth Holmgren Beth Holmgren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2015) 60 (3): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.60.3.0125 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Beth Holmgren; In Memoriam - Stanisław Barańczak November 13, 1946–December 26, 201…
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