Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of 'liquid modernity', Zygmunt
Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful …

The Light of Learning tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of
the Holocaust. In the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish mystical movement appeared to …

In the final stage of the tenure track procedure in Poland, after a candidate has been
recommended by a tenure commission, the Polish president must sign the candidate's …

State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of
hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities—all within a …

This study has explored the criminal cases involving Jews heard in Krakow District Court in
the period 1939–1944. Among those documents, there are also 23 denunciations from …

Some of the founding fathers of Israel's legal system were lawyers educated in Polish law
schools. What was the impact of this background on their legal thought? There are few …

The unexpected revitalization of Polish Jewish traditionalism—Hasidic and non-Hasidic—is
particularly visible in the realm of education. During the interwar period, a combined influx of …

Although the second half of the 1930s (1935–1939) is known as the “Golden Age” of Yiddish
cinema, these years could not have been such a high point had Jewish audiences not …

This article examines anti-Jewish violence in the Second Polish Republic through the lens of
gender. By focusing on verbal and physical attacks against female Jewish students at Polish …

Three case studies depict different attitudes of anthropologists toward the politics of
nationalism promoted by the prewar Polish state. Ethnographer Stanisław Dworakowski …