When Heredity Met the Bacterium: Quarantines in New York and Danzig, 1898-1921 [PDF]
, 2001 [Excerpt] Recent careful examinations of American quarantines placed on incoming migrants have found that health officials were potent carries of bigotries rooted in the larger society; but usually historians have not paid sufficient attention to the ...
Korman, Gerd
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Muranów czyli karczowanie. O książce „Festung Warschau” Elżbiety Janickiej
Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2012 Muranów, or about land clearing The article is a review of “Festung Warschau” by Elżbieta Janicka which maps the clash between the recently built monuments celebrating Jewish or Polish places of martyrdom from the times of Second World War.
Irena Grudzińska-Gross
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Ujęcia literackości na przykładzie żydowskich polskich i czeskich tekstów byłych więźniów KL Auschwitz [PDF]
Studia Slavica, 2023 The article compares different approaches to literaryness contained in two texts by authors of Jewish origin – in Czech by Jiří Steiner and in Polish by Dov Lewi, former prisoners of KL Auschwitz.
Magdalena Gardias
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Auto-da-fe in Lwów in 1728 : the Jan Filipowicz trial and Jewish re-conversion to Judaism in the early modern Poland [PDF]
, 2017 This article discusses the question of neophytes’ return to Judaism, especially the case of Jan Filipowicz, who was condemned to death for this crime in 1728 in Lwów.
Kaźmierczyk, Adam
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Teatry żydowskie w Warszawie między wojnami (1918–1939)
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 1992 Although Jewish theatre in Warsaw can be considered to date back to David Hellin’s theatre, operating in 1837, it had not flourished until the late 19th century.
Edward Krasiński
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Beyond “Recognition”. The Polish Perspectives on Israeli and Palestinian National Identities: Preliminary Assumptions of Research [PDF]
Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2018 The paper aims to provide an overview of the main streams of perception of Israeli and Palestinian national identities by Polish authorities and society, as well as analyze their sources.
Marcin Szydzisz, Jarosław Jarząbek
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Narrative- and Space-Making in the City on the Example of Lublin
Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo, 2019 This paper discusses the literary, artistic, scientific, and educational narratives that are (re)created to facilitate the city’s recovery of memory in the wake of the Holocaust.This is the case with Lublin.The story of the complete destruction of its ...
Agnieszka Hudzik
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Verbum Vitae, 2023 The paper explores the history of Hebrew studies in Poland from the early 16th century to the 20th century. The beginnings of academic studies and thorough research into biblical Hebrew can be traced back to the 16th century as the first lecturers of ...
Roman Marcinkowski
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Respectus Philologicus, 2021 The article analyzes the attempt to reconstruct the historical memory of the Holocaust in the novel by Polish writer Monika Schneiderman “Fałszerze pieprzu. Historia rodzinna”. The writer questions the issue of Polish-Jewish relations, the responsibility
Uliana Yevchuk
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Museums of Łódź as an Element of Tourism Space and the Connection between Museums and the City’s Tourism Image [PDF]
, 2017 This article deals with the museum potential of Łódź. The first sections describe the kinds and significance of museums, their location in the city and the attractiveness of their collections, premises and organized events.
Krakowiak, Beata
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