International Centre for Research on the History and Cultural Heritage of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Contact details
al. Racławickie 14; Collegium Norwidianum - 20620-950
Lublin
Poland
Tel: +48 81 445 43 10
Email: zureks@kul.pl
https://www.kul.pl/news,art_89045.html
Head of Department/Director
Prof. dr. hab. Sławomir Jacek Żurek
Tel: +48814454309 / +4853330737
Email: zureks@kul.pl
Activites
Awards degrees in Jewish Studies as a sole or major componentPolish philology
English philology
German philology
Roman philology
Slavic philology
Classical philology
Dutch philology
Sinology
Spanic philology
Italian philology
Applied linguistics
Editing
Digital humanities
Offers courses in Jewish Studies
Provides supervision in Jewish studies for students working towards a research degree
Pursues academic research activities
Main research activities
The International Centre for Research on the History and Cultural Heritage of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe was established on April 29, 2013 by order of the Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin. The centre is interdisciplinary. Its existence is intended to intensify the international scientific dialogue in the field of research on the history and broadly understood culture of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. These goals will be achieved through the organization of international conferences, undertaking joint research projects, creating international research teams, and exchanging scientists. Funds for the implementation of these assumptions are to come mainly from domestic and foreign grants. Establishing this type of research centre in Lublin is to refer to the great, multicultural traditions of the city. Since 2020 the head of the Centre Slawomir Jacek Żurek has had a research position and he is a head of international consortium..
The research plans of the centre include, among others the following team works: Archival inquiries in Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus concerning the traces of the cultural life of Jews - especially Polish Jews. The assumptions of these works are to lay the foundations for the future Centre for Digitization of Cultural Heritage of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe; Preparation of a guide to the archival resources of Eastern Europe concerning Jews (publication in Polish); Preparation of an Atlas of Jewish religious communities in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Preparation of the Lexicon of the Jews of the Lublin Region; A monograph of the Polish-Jewish press in the interwar period; Bibliography of the contents of the interwar Polish-Jewish press. Now we are realizing the international project of consortium of three universities: KUL, University of Antwerp and Bar Ilan University “21st-Century Literature and the Holocaust A comparative and multilingual perspective” and research Jewish and non-Jewish writers engaging with the Shoah. In spatial terms, the project is organized around an East-West axis that encompasses three major (German, Russian and English) and three minor languages (Polish, Dutch and Hebrew) and six corresponding geographical areas (Germany, Russia, the US, Poland, the Low Countries and Israel).
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