Interview with Prof. Anna Frajlich, Senior Lecturer, Emerita of the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University

Professor Anna Frajlich, a renowned poet with impressive dossier of achievements, who left Poland in 1969 because of the anti-Semitic campaign, has lived in New York for years. Here, at the Slavic Studies Department of New York University, she defended her doctoral thesis on the legacy of ancient Rome in the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, and for 34 years, from 1982 to 2016, she was a lecturer at the Slavic Studies Department of Columbia University. Currently, retired for eight years, she continues to actively participate in American and Polish literary life, taking part in meetings, conferences, and talks. One of them was conducted by Przemysław Górecki in the New York apartment of the professor and her husband.