Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 39

Publications include ‘Art as Refuge: Sketches and Insights on the Jewish-Polish Art Scene from a Refugee's Perspective’, Studia Judaica, 27/2 (2024), 261–90; ‘“Sefirot”, Wanderings, and Superstructures: Futurism in the Polish Yiddish Arena’, Polin, 28 (2016), 283–305; ‘“Far undzere kinstler”: Tea Arciszewska and the Jewish Artists’, in Art in Jewish Society, Polish Society of Oriental Art (Warsaw, 2017). Chair, Korczak Academic Forum; director, Raz-Ram Foundation; curator, the Core Collection of Contemporary Israeli Art, NYU Publications include ‘Strategies of Reconstructing the Jewish World in Polish Literature after 1989’, in John J. Bukowczyk and Halina Filipowicz (eds.), Pole/Jew. History, Literature, Identity, Future (Athens, Ohio, 2025); ‘Narratives of the First World War: Multiple Jewish Perspectives’, in Polin, 37 (2024). Since 2022 she has been the president of the Polish Association for Jewish Studies, and she is a member of the editorial boards of Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo and of Kwartalnik Historii Żydów. Co-editor, with Antony Polonsky, of Jewish Self-Government in Eastern Europe, Polin, 34 (2022), and, with Jerzy Tomaszewski, of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies. He has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Potsdam University, Vilnius University, and the Jagiellonian University Kraków. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.

• IntroductionFrançois Guesnet, Aviv Livnat, Alina Molisak, Antony Polonsky1. ETHNIC STEREOTYPING IN THE POLISH LANDSHoffmann’s Shadow? The Creation of German Jewish Family Names in WarsawJohannes CzakaiFear of Being Eaten: Mutual Perceptions of Everyday Jewish and Catholic Religious Culture in Interwar LublinMagdalena DziaczkowskaJews in the Eyes of Polesian Peasants: Lessons from Pre-war Ethnographical Field NotesAnna EngelkingPoland and Polish–Jewish Relations in Memoirs of Polish Jews in the USSR, 1939–1946Magdalena Ruta2. THROUGH THE PRISM OF LITERATURE: BEFORE 1900Potocki’s Resistance: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa as an Allegory of the Polish PartitionsMarc CaplanJulian Ursyn Niemcewicz’s Misinterpretation of Traditional JudaismDorota Burda-FischerJews in the Countryside: The Perspectives of Klemens Junosza and Jan JeleńskiAlina MolisakHow Do They Perceive Us? Confronting National Imaginaries in Polish Jewish ProseEugenia Prokop-JaniecThe Jewish ‘Helper’ in the Belarusian Literature of the Nasha Niva PeriodClaire Le Foll3. THROUGH THE PRISM OF LITERATURE: FROM 1900 TO THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOLOCAUST‘The lips that have often smiled so foolishly’: Jewish–Polish Relations in the Work of Itshe Meyer VaysenbergGil RibakBruno Schulz and Ukrainian Culture: Historical Contexts and Literary TracesStanley BillA ‘Jewish-Polish Idyll’? Kazimierz on the Vistula as Shtetl and Artistic ColonyMonika Adamczyk-GarbowskaHolocaust Poems in Polish and Polish Jewish Journals of the 1940sAleksandra KremerThe Polish and Jewish Identities of Leopold TyrmandFilip MazurczakAttending to the Imprint: Space, Community, and the Work of Memory in Piotr Szewc’s AnnihilationDiana Sacilowski4. THE CINEMATIC IMAGEThe Two Faces of Janus: Jewish Characters in Polish Films and Polish Characters in Jewish FilmsMarcos SilberBruno Schulz and Wojciech Jerzy Has: Two Bulbs of a Bereaved HourglassAviv LivnatIda, Aftermath, and In DarknessPaul Coates5. ARTISTIC PERCEPTIONS IN INDEPENDENT AND POST-WAR POLANDGolden Horn or Shofar of Liberation? Polish and Jewish Messianism in the Work of Jewish Artists from Łódź and WarsawMałgorzata Stolarska-FroniaAt the Crossroads of Worlds: Jewish Artists in 1930s WarsawRenata Piątkowska‘Realism in the broadest possible sense’: Czapka Frygijska and the Engaged Art of Józef HermanPiotr SłodkowskiWeird and Eerie Holocaust: Zdzisław Beksiński and the Memory of Jewish SanokClaudia WęgrzynPoland’s Jewish Figurines Twenty Years On: Cultural Barometer, Evolving Tradition, Domain of DisputeErica Lehrer