Polish Historical News Sources

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Polish Digital Libraries
Poland has many digital libraries. Nearly every Polish digital library offers access to digitized newspapers, including those of ethnic minorities. To locate a specific digital library, see the A-Z title list of Polish digital libraries compiled by Barbara Maria Morawiec for Lustro Biblioteki.

Federacja Biblitek Cyfrowych (FBC)
To locate a specific newspaper title, use this cross-searchable interface to conduct a “Title” search.  This will take you to the digital library that holds this particular newspaper title. Once you are in one of those digital libraries, you can conduct a full-text keyword search within that particular newspaper. Unfortunately, there is no full-text keyword search functionality via FBC itself.

Other digital libraries include:

  • Cyfrowa Biblioteka Druków Ulotnych Polskich i Polski Dotyczących z XVI, XVII i XVIII Wieku (CBDU)
    Digital Library of Polish and Poland-Related News Pamphlets contains about 2,000 ephemeral prints, published between the 16th and the 18th centuries.

  • Centralna Biblioteka Judaistyczna (Central Jewish Library, Poland)
    Includes newspapers (in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew) published on the historical territory of Poland.

  • Czas (University of Manitoba)

    The oldest Polish language newspaper weekly in Canada, 1915-2004.

  • ePaveldas (Portal created and developed as part of various digitization projects)
    Includes the Polish-language newspaper Dzień Kowieński (1922-1934) published in Kaunas, Lithuania.

  • Polish Underground Periodicals (Open Society Archives)
    Digital collection of 667 Polish underground journals (1976-1993) includes samizdat holdings of “workplace, regional and national bulletins,” collected by Radio Free Europe's Polish Underground Publications Unit, the only national Unit dedicated to monitoring the underground press.

  • Nowy Świat: The Polish Morning World (Józef Piłsudski Institute of America)
    Selected years (1920-1927) of the daily and Sunday editions of the New York-based Polish-American newspaper.

Audio

  • TBA

Visual

  • Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
    20th-century photographs, including of Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny (1910-1939) and the Kraków-Warszawa Press publishing house (1939-1945). For a description of what is available, see here (recordings of radio programs accessible only on-site)

  • PAP Baza Zdjęć
    The photo collection of the Polish Press Agency (all photos are copyrighted)

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