Baluty in a distorting mirror: phantasmagoria – literature – history. The remarks over the book: Jisroel Rabon, Bałuty. Powieść z przedmieścia, pod red. Krystyny Radziszewskiej, Natalii Krynickiej przy współpracy Izabeli Olejnik i Jacka Walickiego. Przekład z jidysz Natalia Krynicka i Izabela Olejnik, Łódź 2016, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, s. 175

The article comments on the Polish edition of Izrael Rabon’s Bałut: a roman fun a forsztot (1934). It includes exegesis of a novel, omitted by the publisher. Reminds and discusses earlier transaltion attemps of its parts into Polish. It classifies the Rabon’s work as an action novel, meant, by the author, to be published in parts in a newspaper. The article also portrays a variety of similar works published in Lodz press in 1918–1939. It recognizes the first print publisher and describes the profile of his printing house. Serves as a review of polish-jewish literature scene in Mid War time. It also conveys a polemic with presented in book vision of Baluty district as a place inhabited mainly by Jews and Poles. There is an attempt of correcting mistakes and omissions of the above mentioned publication.