Ksawery Pruszyński (1907-1950) was a Polish journalist, writer, and diplomat. He was born in Volhynia (now Ukraine) into a landowning family who settled in Kraków after the Russian Revolution. After graduating with a law degree, he started working as a journalist reporting from Gdańsk, Mandate Palestine, and the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, he fought as a soldier (Narvik and Falaise) and worked as a diplomat in London and Moscow. After the war, he joined Poland’s diplomatic corps, first at the UN and later as ambassador to the Netherlands, while still writing and publishing. He died in a car accident in Germany. He is now recognized as one of the founding fathers of the Polish school of reportage.Powaga Wiesiek :

Wiesiek Powaga was born in Poland. He settled in London after the imposition of martial law of 1981. After graduating with a degree in philosophy at King’s College, London, he worked as a carpenter, translator, correspondent for a music magazine, and as senior editor for a UK publisher. He has translated fiction, poetry, and drama, occasionally script-writing for radio and tv.

Ksawery Pruszyński (1907-1950) was a Polish journalist, writer, and diplomat. He was born in Volhynia (now Ukraine) into a landowning family who settled in Kraków after the Russian Revolution. After graduating with a law degree, he started working as a journalist reporting from Gdańsk, Mandate Palestine, and the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, he fought as a soldier (Narvik and Falaise) and worked as a diplomat in London and Moscow. After the war, he joined Poland’s diplomatic corps, first at the UN and later as ambassador to the Netherlands, while still writing and publishing. He died in a car accident in Germany. He is now recognized as one of the founding fathers of the Polish school of reportage.

Wiesiek Powaga was born in Poland. He settled in London after the imposition of martial law of 1981. After graduating with a degree in philosophy at King’s College, London, he worked as a carpenter, translator, correspondent for a music magazine, and as senior editor for a UK publisher. He has translated fiction, poetry, and drama, occasionally script-writing for radio and tv.

“Printed in English for the first time by Academic Studies Press, Palestine for the Third Time is an engaging, empathetic and often perceptive account of the Zionist project in the ancestral homeland of the Jews.”

—Sheldon Kirshner, Times of Israel

“[Pruszynski’s] analysis of the role of private capital is interesting and his discussion of the three major cities of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa is thought-provoking. It is a book rich in content and commentary.”

—Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Library, George Washington University, AJL Reviews

“‘The Polish nation understands the struggle of Palestinian Jewry.’ Such was the opinion of a young Cracovian academic and journalist, who visited Mandated Palestine in 1933 and who described himself as ‘a neutral witness.’ Yet Ksawery Pruszyński was both well-informed and emotionally affected by the people with whom he talked. He took the trouble not only to hike across the country from sea to desert, but along the way to seek out individuals with differing points of view—Jews, Arabs and Christians, many enthusiastic, others disillusioned. He was conscious of the resonances between the Zionist experiment and the Fascist and Communist movements of his day, wanting to live life in a kibbutz for himself, and comparing it to a Soviet-style kolkhoz and a Christian monastery. Endowed with an open mind filled with imagination, he was a forerunner of his later compatriot, Ryszard Kapuściński, taking his readers with him on his journey not only into the recesses of the land but also into the mental worlds of its inhabitants. This short book, written in a fateful year, is prophetic. With great sureness of touch, it describes the human vibrations which would soon give rise, as its author foresaw, to the state of Israel.”

— Norman Davies, historian, author of God’s Playground

“Pruszyński opens a [new] era of reportage […], reportage which not only describes the world but also tries to explain it.”

— Ryszard Kapuściński, Lapidarium II, 1996