BAUMAN

Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, becam e a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those rare scholars who, gre y-haired and in his eighties, had his finger on the pulse of the youth. This is the first comprehensive biography of Bauman's life a nd work. Izabela Wagner returns to Bauman's native Poland and recounts his childhood in an assimilated Polish Jewish family and the school ex...[Read more]