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Position: Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London
Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Foster Court
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
13: Early Modern: R
14: Modern: R
15: Regional and National (i.e. in North Africa, Greece, Eastern Europe, Germany, Middle East, Spain, India, South America, United States, etc): R
3. Religion and Religious Movements: TR
27: Hasidism: R
28: Reform Judaism: R
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): TR
46: Yiddish: R
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: TR
84: Genealogy: R
Description
Antony Polonsky is Chief Historian of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw and emeritus professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. Until 1991 he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972), The Little Dictators (1975), The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976); co-author of
A History of Modern Poland (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981) and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland: an anthology (2001) and The neighbors respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004). His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3 1914 to 2008 (2010. 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History.
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