ABSTRACT
Here was East and West, North and South. On this street the Tatar prostrated himself, his face turned toward Mecca, the Jew read the Torah, the German read Luther, the Pole lit consecrated candles at the foot of the altars in Czestochowa and Ostra Brama. Here was the center of the earth, the axis of the universe, the accumulation of brotherhood and hatred, closeness and strangeness, for here were fulfilled the joint destinies of the peoples most distant one from the other.
