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The following will be of interest to subscribers of the Holocaust list FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andrea Sherman 212 246-6080 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Awards Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Prize for 1996 to Henryk Grynberg New York, New York, November 3, 1996. The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announced today that Henryk Grynberg has been awarded the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Prize for 1996. Established by Professor Karski at the YIVO Institute in 1992, the prize is awarded annually to authors of published works documenting or interpreting the contributions to Polish culture and science by Poles of Jewish origin and Polish Jews. It bears a stipend of $5000. This year's laureate, the Polish writer Henryk Grynberg, is the author of 19 books, including fiction, poetry, essays, documentary prose, and drama, primarily dealing with the Holocaust experience and post- Holocaust trauma. Mr. Grynberg, whose works have been translated into English, German, French, Hebrew and other languages, has been the recipient of most major Polish literary prizes. Most recently translated into English is his novel, The Victory (Northwestern University Press, 1993). A child survivor of the Holocaust, Mr. Grynberg has lived in the United States since 1967. Professor Jan Karski, who endowed the prize, was the envoy of the Polish government-in-exile during World War II who brought first-hand testimony to the West of conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto and in German concentration camps. The prize is also named in memory of Professor Karski's late wife, Pola Nirenska, a well- known choreographer who lost 75 members of her family during the Holocaust. Previous laureates have been Dr. Eugenia Prokop-Janiec for her work on Polish-Jewish writers in interwar Poland (1993); Mr. Jerzy Ficowski, a Polish poet and literary critic who has focused on Jewish themes, and Dr. Michal Frydman, translator of Yiddish literature into Polish (1994); and Dr. Marek Rostworowski for his work on Jewish subjects in Polish painting (1995). The jury awarding the prize was chaired by Dr. Michael Steinlauf, Senior Research Fellow at YIVO, who succeeded as chairman the late Professor Lucjan Dobroszycki. The other members of the jury were Dr. Jozef Gierowski, director of the Research Center for Jewish History and Culture at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; Professor Czeslaw Milosz, 1980 Nobel Laureate in Literature; Dr. Allan Nadler, director of research at YIVO; Mr. Jerzy Turowicz, editor-in-chief of Tygodnik Powszechny, member of the Polish Bishops' Conference Committee for Dialogue with Judaism, and vice-president of the Society for Polish-Israeli Friendship; and Professor Feliks Tych, director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland. Dr. Michael Steinlauf, chairman of the prize committee, said today: "Henryk Grynberg has devoted his life to an unflinching autobiographical journey through this century's worst horrors. A child Holocaust survivor, a Jew writing in Polish and living in the United States, Henryk Grynberg has brought Poles, Jews, and all his readers a step further along the hard road to understanding each other as well as themselves." ABOUT YIVO: In 1925, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded to record the history and pioneer in the critical study of the language, literature and culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe. Today YIVO provides graduate and post-graduate training in East European Jewish specializations, and presents the results of its scholarship through publications, exhibitions, lectures and conferences. YIVO's library and archives form the world's largest collection documenting the civilization of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust. Through the institute's wide array of classes, graduate seminars, public lectures, publications and scholarships, YIVO continues to pioneer in the preservation of East European Jewish culture and the influence of that culture as it developed in the Americas. Dr. Michael Steinlauf YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 555 W. 57th Street New York, NY 10019 yivo3@metgate.metro.org
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