Kurjer Lubelski

[1] The (freethinking) journal Myśl Niepodległa, edited by the poet Andrzej Niemojewski, wrote in 1910 of the Kurjer Lubelski that despite the vagaries of fate that its publication was subject to over the years it had arisen from "a certain cultural milieu to which it has consistently borne spiritual witness".

Any issue of the original series would constitute at present an extremely rare bibliophile item, with only a handful of known copies (according to some estimates, exactly seventeen in number), of various dates, being preserved in library holdings worldwide.

[1] The newspaper was yet again revived in independent Poland in 1932, the paper now being published with the subtitle: Kurjer Lubelski: pismo codzienne ("The Lublin Courier: A Daily Newspaper); it managed to stay afloat for less than one year due to financial difficulties caused in part by the loss of government advertising and by the frequent confiscations of whole print runs of individual issues by the Sanacja régime.

While economically unviable, the publication enjoyed the high reputation stemming from its association in the past with such notable Polish writers as Stefan Żeromski, who had honoured it with his contributions.

[16] It had a distinct literary profile during this phase, publishing among others the works of such distinguished poets as Józef Czechowicz, Józef Łobodowski, Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, Bronisław Ludwik Michalski (1903–1935), Antoni Madej (1899–1989), Zygmunt Karski (1898–1967), Czesław Miłosz, and Jadwiga Gamska-Łempicka (1903–1956), as well as the prose writings by Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (novellas), Marian Piechal (1905–1989), and Aniela Fleszarowa, the author of Celofanki: poematy prozą (1939).

[18] Finally, the paper was briefly revived one last time between 22 March 1937 and 2 April 1937, by Józef Łobodowski, its penultimate editor in the previous phase of 1932, under the unaltered title of Kurjer Lubelski: pismo codzienne.

[20] In his memoirs published towards the end of his life, Łobodowski avowed that during the brief period of the Kurjer Lubelski's revival in 1937 he endeavoured to endue the daily with a strong Promethean current, that is to say to make it an organ "of the struggle to disband the Russian–Soviet empire into its constituent parts".