Sygnały Magazyn (Signals Magazine) was a Polish cultural and social magazine published 1933–1939 in Lwów (Lemberg, today Lviv, Ukraine). It was a leading periodical of the leftist Polish intelligentsia. The journal started as a 12-page monthly and was subsequently published once every two weeks, with editions of up to 32 pages. Sygnały was published in the tabloid format, similar to the New York Times at about 56x40 cm (22x16 inches).
Special issues were dedicated to Jewish, Ukrainian and Belarusian culture.
In 1938 an armed ONR (National Radical Camp) gang raided the editorial office and Karol Kuryluk barely escaped alive. In spite of financial hardship and heavy censorship, he published Signals through August 1939.
In September 1939, after the Soviet annexation of Lwów, Kuryluk deposited his Signals archive at the Ossolineum Library (now Stefanyk Library) where it has survived until now.
Picture gallery
Drawing of Guillaume Apollinaire in Signals Magazine (1933–1939).
Photograph of André Malraux in Signals Magazine (1933–1939).
Photograph of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Carl von Ossietzky in Signals Magazine, 1936.
Bertrand Russell, The Beauty of Mathematics, in Signals Magazine (1933–1939).
Poem “To Verlaine” by Ukrainian poet Mikhail Rudnickij, in the special Ukrainian issue of Signals Magazine, IV-V, 1934.
Photograph of Jewish children in Palestine, in Signals Magazine (1933–1939).
Photograph of youth from Germany in Palestine, in Signals Magazine (1933–1939).
Maria Jarema, Composition (plaster), in Signals Magazine (1933–1939).
Otto Hahn, Photomontage (1933), illustrating the article “Genealogy of Photomontage” by Debora Vogel in Signals Magazine, XII, 1934.
Mieczysław Szczuka, Photomontage, published on the 10th anniversary of his death in Signals Magazine, 1937.
Władysław Broniewski and Karol Kuryluk, Signals Magazine II, 1956.
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