GUEST COMMENTARY: From Poland, life beyond the grave

Beyond the flowers, candles and incense, the Poles-arguably more than any people on earth-remain in touch with their past, both personally and collectively. They retain a clear idea of who they are, drawn in part from beyond the grave, from ancestors who surely speak to them on All Saints’ Day. (Allen Paul is the author […]

Beyond the flowers, candles and incense, the Poles-arguably more than any people on earth-remain in touch with their past, both personally and collectively. They retain a clear idea of who they are, drawn in part from beyond the grave, from ancestors who surely speak to them on All Saints’ Day.

(Allen Paul is the author of “Katyn” and is writing a novel about Poland that will be published in the fall of 2009.)


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