New Eastern Europe - November-December 2017

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specific group of people, who were – in
fact – irreplaceable. Or maybe it was an
expression of Kultura’s credo?
Certainly his dying wish was a clear
expression that an extraordinary jour-
nal needs an extraordinary editor; one
who responsibly promotes certain views

but – at the same time – is open to po-

lemics that allow readers to understand

the opposite point of view. Such an as-

sumption makes it quite clear that a

journal can last only as long as the ed-

itor in chief has influence over the edi-

torial policy.

Translated by Iwona Reichardt

Dorota Sieroń-Galusek is an assistant professor at the Department for Cultural Education,

Faculty of Ethnology and Educational Science, Silesian University in Katowice. She is

also the author of Moment osobisty. Stempowski, Czapski, Miłosz (A Personal Moment:

Stempowski, Czapski, Miłosz. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego) published in 2013.

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