ABSTRACT
It might have been reasonably thought that, in view of the enormous problems the Second Republic had to confront at home and abroad, the development of its cultural and educational spheres would have been extremely limited, even rudimentary and well outside the mainstream of trends in Europe as a whole. However, one of the most striking paradoxes of the interwar years in Poland was the remarkable and often brilliant recrudescence in many fields of the arts and sciences, and the determined and relatively successful efforts made to rejuvenate the schools and universities following the manifold constraints of the partitionist era.
