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Jonathan Lipman

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Jonathan Lipman was born in Oxfordshire, England in 1968. In the 1980s he encountered many temporary émigrés from Eastern Europe - including Russians, Romanians and... Poles. They were visitors to his father's team that pioneered wind energy in the UK. Conversations with them would range far and wide, from the flaws in Capitalism to the evils of Communism, from the corrupt West to the post-Communist "Wild East", from Keynes to Marx and Engels. Little did Jonathan know this would stand him in good stead when, at the age of 25, he'd meet a variety of Eastern Europeans on a course at Oxford University, and fall in love with one of them - a Pole.

After qualifying as a lawyer in 1997, Jonathan married Marzena in Krakow, Poland, and they spent the ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 75 ratings · 9 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Polska Dotty: Carp in the Bathtub, Throttled Buglers and Other Tales of an Englishman in Poland 3.69 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polska Dotty 2: Polski Sklep, Polish Plumbers, and Other Tales of Poles in the UK 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Krakow: The Shock of the Old

We’ve just returned from a first trip to Krakow in three years – a post-pandemic pilgrimage.

On our last trip, and prior visits, Krakow seemed to be in a perpetual state of architectural flux. First, they dug up the stunning central square (“Rynek” or market-place) to reveal Kraków’s past, and created an underground museum (worth a visit). Then the twin towers of the famous Mariacki church were cla

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“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...”
― Colette

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“It’s a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, "Momma, do we believe in winter?”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

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