{"id":12407,"date":"2017-04-08T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/ksiazek\/herito-nr-27-krakow-i-swiat\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:52:23","slug":"herito-nr-27-krakow-i-swiat","status":"publish","type":"ksiazek","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/ksiazek\/herito-nr-27-krakow-i-swiat\/","title":{"rendered":"HERITO, No. 27: Krakow and the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could Krak\u00f3w be a creative city and what could that mean? What differentiates it from other Central European cities? What songs were its flower sellers humming on the Market Square in April 1990? The latest issue of the magazine \u201cHerito\u201d brings together historians, diplomats, literature critics, translators, political commentators, economists, managers in culture, and architects, who attempt to define the unique character of Krak\u00f3w \u2013 a palimpsest city.<br>In this issue we look at Krak\u00f3w from near and far, explore its unique identity in literature and art, and question whether today it is still a world heritage city or merely a mass tourism destination. We also predict optimum directions for its development.<br>Two contributions of particular note are the essay by Eva Hoffman, a Polish-American writer and historian of Jewish descent, who remembers Krak\u00f3w as a place of difficult memory, and a little-known text by the leading English-language writer Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn, portraying the city at the foot of Wawel Hill shortly after the fall of the iron curtain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Content<\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Editorial<br>Worth a Look<br><\/strong>Larry Wolff, Emil Brix, Simona \u0160krabec, Shlomo Avineri, Mykola Riabchuk, Jacek Purchla \u2013 <strong>Krakow in the European Core<\/strong><br>Tokimasa Sekiguchi, Yaraah Bar-on, Nathaniel Wood, Peter Oliver Loew, Krzysztof Czy\u017cewski, \u0141ukasz Galusek \u2013 <strong>Krakow from Afar<\/strong><br>Eva Hoffman, Gaja Grzegorzewska, James Hopkin, Alois Woldan, Robert Kusek, Aleksandra Szczepan \u2013 <strong>Krakow and Literature<\/strong><br>Joan Roca i Albert, G\u00e1bor So\u00f3s, Ruth Ellen Gruber, Matthias Ripp, Stsiapan Stureika, Micha\u0142 Wi\u015bniewski \u2013 <strong>Krakow: A City of Heritage<\/strong><br>Franco Bianchini, Andrzej Zdebski, Magdalena Sroka, Andrew Hallam, Jerzy Hausner, Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga \u2013 <strong>Krakow: A City of the Future<\/strong><br>Milena Dragi\u0107evi\u0107-\u0160e\u0161i\u0107, Robert Piaskowski, Faith Liddell, Robert Palmer, Agata W\u0105sowska-Pawlik \u2013 <strong>The City and Culture<\/strong><br><strong>Worth a Thought<\/strong> \u2013 Kinga Siewior, Karol Kurnicki, Wojciech Wilczyk, Wojciech Szyma\u0144ski<br>Eva Hoffman \u2013 <strong>From Event to Fable<\/strong><br>Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn \u2013 <strong>Memory of the War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could Krak\u00f3w be a creative city and what could that mean? 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