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Polish Studies
Interviews with scholars of Poland about their new books
June 19, 2024
Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920
Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish statehood out of World War I and Polish-Soviet War. In Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland…
June 5, 2024
The Light of Learning
In The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2024), Glenn Dynner tells the story of an unexpecte…
May 27, 2024
On Duty
"The Polish Police, commonly called the Blue or uniformed police in order to avoid using the term “Polish,” has played a most lamentable role in the e…
May 27, 2024
The Light of Days
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--so…
May 26, 2024
The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism
In The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism (SUNY Press, 2023), Adi Mahalel presents Yiddish and Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz (1…
May 10, 2024
Rethinking Modern Polish Identities
Anti-Semitic or philo-Semitic? Backward or modern? Locally rooted or diasporic? “Polishness” is too often flattened to an oversimplified list of eithe…
May 6, 2024
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV (Indiana UP, 2022) examines an under-researched se…
April 14, 2024
Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland
How embedded are the dignity and personhood of the elderly in the collective memory of their nation? In Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memor…
April 13, 2024
When Left Moves Right
In her new book, When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe (Oxford University Press, 2…
April 2, 2024
Why Should We Preserve Memory of the Holocaust?
Wojtek Soczewica has led the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation since 2019, near the site of the killing fields. The Foundation aims at the preservation of…
April 1, 2024
Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland
In the years after World War II, Polish scholars and scientists faced a complex and deeply personal political reality, the result of a long and violen…
March 21, 2024
The Polish-British Business Landscape
In this episode Richard interviews not an entrepreneur but a business journalist with detailed knowledge of the Polish and British business landscape …
March 17, 2024
The Counterfeit Countess
World War II and the Holocaust have been the subject of many remarkable stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Wom…
March 9, 2024
Uprooting the Diaspora
In Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946 (Indiana UP, 2023), Sarah Cramsey explor…
March 3, 2024
How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis
In World War II's Poland, thirty year old Zofia Sterner and her husband Wacek refuse to be classified as Jews destined for extermination. Instead, the…
February 5, 2024
Laboratory of Modernity
When the powers of Europe were at their prime, present-day Ukraine was divided between the Austrian and Russian empires, each imposing different polit…
January 2, 2024
Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities
In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Ohio University P…
December 21, 2023
My Life in Propaganda
My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes (Durvile, 2023) is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with commu…
December 18, 2023
Is Poland Back on Track?
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI's Director John Torpey interviews Grzegorz Ekiert, Chair of the Center for European Studies at Harvard …
November 24, 2023
The Idea of "Central Europe" from Naumann to Kundera
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms: A New Hist…