New publications - editorial notes

Category: New publications, Editorial notes, Holocaust, Editorial note, News, Political history, Cultural history, Memory studies

Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present: History, Representation, and Memory

15 November 2017

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children.

Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes...

Category: New publications, Editorial notes, XXw, Regional history, Reports of meetings, Polish historiography, Holocaust, News, SG - Źródła historyczne, Social history

Official opening of the permanent exhibition in the Jewish Historical Institute

15 November 2017

 

On 14 November, President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda and his Wife took part in the official opening of the permanent exhibition „What we were unable to shout out to the world”, presenting original documents from the Underground Archive...

Category: New publications, Editorial notes, XXw, Polish historiography, Editorial note, News, Methodology, Social history, Economic history, Political history

Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland. Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines by Lukasz Szulz

06 November 2017

 

This book traces the fascinating history of the first Polish gay and lesbian magazines to explore the globalization of LGBT identities and politics in Central and Eastern Europe during the twilight years of the Cold War.

It details the emergence of homosexual movement and charts cross-border...

Category: Editorial notes, XXw, Regional history, Open projects - aplications, Research projects, Grants, fellowships, News, Political history, Economic history, Cultural history

The Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professorship at the University of Warsaw 2018/19

31 October 2017

 

The Dean of the Faculty of „Artes Liberales", the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the President of the Kosciuszko Foundation, Inc. invites applications for the position of the Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor.

 

The position is co-sponsored by the Kosciuszko Foundation,...

Category: New publications, Editorial notes, Albums and photos, Editorial note, News, history of Polish culture, Memory studies, Cultural history, Economic history, Social history

“The Things of Warsaw” released in the Museum of Warsaw

27 October 2017

The re-open Museum of Warsaw released a book accompanying the core exhibition. As all featured objects of each of the rooms described in it, the publication is a thing of beauty itself. A perfect reference work both before and after the visit, it can be purchased at the entrance to the...

Category: New publications, Editorial notes, XXw, News, Economic history, Political history, Social history, Cultural history, Memory studies, Historical Policy

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

26 October 2017

 

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes--the consequences of which still resonate today

In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second...

Category: Conferences, Lectures, Editorial notes, XXw, Discussion, News, Social history, Political history, Cultural history, Memory studies

"An Atomics of the Self: Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind Re-Revisited- a story of Milosz, communism and the atom bomb in poetry"

22 October 2017

 

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in New York City cordially invites you to the lecture by Prof. Christopher Caes on "An Atomics of the Self: Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind Re-Revisited- a story of Milosz, communism and the atom bomb in poetry".

If you want to attend a...

Category: Conferences, Editorial notes, XXw, News, Political history, Social history, Economic history, Memory studies, Historical Policy

The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences - Call for proposals

18 October 2017

 

The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America invites presentation proposals for our 76th Annual Conference to be held at the Harriman Institute,  Columbia University in New York City, June 8-9, 2018.

Proposals are solicited for complete sessions or individual papers in any of...