Rulka Langer (1906–1993)
Auteur de The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt: War through a Woman’s Eyes, 1939–1940
A propos de l'auteur
Author Rulka Langer (1906-1993) came from a family of distinguished Polish intellectuals, writers and statesmen.
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Œuvres de Rulka Langer
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Blessed are the meek, a novel about St. Francis of Assisi (1944) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 129 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1906-09-23
- Date de décès
- 1993-02-26
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Poland
- Lieu de naissance
- Warsaw, Poland
- Lieu du décès
- Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Vassar College
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland - Professions
- memoirist
translator
advertising copywriter
economist - Courte biographie
- Rulka Langer was born Rose Mary Godlewski in Warsaw, Poland to a distinguished family of intellectuals and writers. After high school, she attended the Warsaw School of Economics. In 1926, at age 19, she went to the USA on a scholarship from the Kosciuszko Foundation to study at Vassar College, from which she graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics. She returned to Poland and worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency and the Economic Research Department of the Bank of Poland. In 1930, she married Olgierd Langer, a law professor at Warsaw University, with whom she had two children. Her husband became a diplomat and was working in New York City in September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, setting off World War II. Rulka and their two children fled the bombing of Warsaw by train via Krakow and Vienna to Genoa, Italy, where they managed to take ship to the USA to join her husband. He was appointed Polish consul in New York, and the family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut. Rulka worked as an advertising copywriter for another 20 years and later as a church librarian. Her memoir entitled The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt, first published in 1942, is a rare and compelling eyewitness account of the early, chaotic days of World War II. She also translated Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's historical novel of St. Francis of Assisi, Bez Oreza, into English as Blessed Are the Meek (1944).
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 39
- Popularité
- #376,657
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 4
I highly recommend this book as a reminder of the horrors of war.