{"id":557,"date":"2017-10-16T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T08:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp3.jerzyficowski.pl\/tworczosc\/cyganie\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T09:27:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T08:27:21","slug":"cyganie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/tworczosc\/cyganie\/","title":{"rendered":"Gypsies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"txt_materialy\">\n<p>Ficowski wandered with Gypsy caravans in a quest to find the truth about the Polish Gypsies\u2019 culture and their extermination during the war. This experience laid the foundations for his pioneering books on Gypsies, enabled him to translate Papusza\u2019s poetry and provided inspiration for his own work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"txt_small_podpis\">\n<div id=\"attachment_275\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-image-275\" src=\"http:\/\/wp3.jerzyficowski.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6_2.jpg\" alt=\"From Jerzy Ficowski's archive, photographer unknown\" width=\"420\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6_2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6_2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6_2-768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Jerzy Ficowski&#8217;s archive, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"txt_materialy\">\n<p>His interest in Gypsies dates back to his childhood. After the war he started to write down information about their holocaust. Fleeing persecution from the communist secret police, he wandered with the Gypsies in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This was when he befriended Papusza, whose poems he began to translate. His essays about \u201cswarthy fellow citizens\u201d, and especially the subsequent, improved versions of <strong><em>Cyganie na polskich drogach <\/em>(Gypsies on Polish Roads)<\/strong>, filled the gap in Polish literature. A collection of Gypsy tales <strong><em>Ga\u0142\u0105zka z Drzewa S\u0142o\u0144ca<\/em><\/strong> (<strong>A Twig from the Tree of the Sun<\/strong>) became his most popular book for children and the Gypsy-inspired popular song <strong><em>Jad\u0105 wozy kolorowe<\/em><\/strong> was his most successful work as a lyricist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ficowski wandered with Gypsy caravans in a quest to find the truth about the Polish Gypsies\u2019 culture and their extermination during the war. This experience laid the foundations for his pioneering books on Gypsies, enabled him to translate Papusza\u2019s poetry and provided inspiration for his own work. His interest in Gypsies dates back to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":551,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-tworczosc-temp.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-557","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557\/revisions\/1185"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerzyficowski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}