Stanisà Âaw Stroà Âski (18 August 1882 – 2 October 1955) was a Polish philologist, publicist and politician (a National Democracy Sejm deputy). In interwar Poland he edited the Rzeczpospolita newspaper and was a professor at Kraków's Jagiellonian University and at the Catholic University of Lublin. During World War II he was a member of the Polish government in exile, serving as information minister. At war's end, he remained abroad.
An outspoken antisemite, Stroà Âski had recent and well documented Jewish roots (his mother Emilia Loevy was a daughter of a Jewish physician from Nisko). Jewish members of the Sejm frequently mentioned his Jewish ancestry when attacking him in speeches.
He was a vocal prewar opponent of Poland's first president, Gabriel Narutowicz, and of Marshal Józef Pià Âsudski. Following Narutowicz's election, Stroà Âski wrote that he "puts himself forward as a representative of the Polish state thanks to the Jewish-German-Ukrainian vote". Following Narutowicz's murder, Stroà Âski who had just a few days earlier called him a "their [the Jews] President", wrote that the murdered president belonged to the "whole nation".
It was Stroà Âski who coined the expression, "Miracle at the Vistula," intended to derogate Pià Âsudski's 1920 victory over the Soviets. Ironically, the expression quickly lost its intended meaning and was adopted with approval by some patriotically- or piously-minded Poles unaware of Stroà Âski's ironic intent.
His academic interests centered on the medieval Occitan literature, especially about the Troubadours. In this field he is reputed as one of the most important scholars of the 20th century.