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By reading Zygmunt Bauman’s famous study critically, this text attempts to show how both the brilliant analyses, observations, and intuitions contained in Modernity and the Holocaust and its errors and distortions can still serve as important guideposts for further studies of the Holocaust in Polish lands and in Central and Eastern Europe even today, some thirty years after publication. What remains...
For whom and about what? The Polin Museum, Jewish historiography and Jews as a “Polish cause”The article presents main threads of the ongoing debate around the permanent exhibition of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Analyzing differences between two fields of research, Jewish studies and studies on Polish-Jewish relations, the article makes the case that many of the critical...
(Title in Polish - 'Miedzy uniwersalna nauka a narodowa polityka. Charakter projektu badan nad mlodzieza Zydowskiego Instytutu Naukowego (JIWO) w Polsce miedzywojennej'). The purpose of this article is to trace back the context of the birth of one of the most valuable source materials for studying the history of Jews in Poland's 2nd Republic, i.e., a collection of autobiographies of youth, written...
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