New Books in Polish Studies
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Interviews with scholars of Poland about their new books
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"The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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May 06, 2024 |
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Jessica C. Robbins, "Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Why Should We Preserve Memory of the Holocaust?
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Alexej Lochmatow, "Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956" (Routledge, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Sarah A. Cramsey, "Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Roman Dziarski, "How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis: The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers, Zofia Sterner and Her Family" (Academic Studies, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Serhiy Bilenky, "Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1914" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Magda Stroińska, "My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes" (Durvile, 2023)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Is Poland Back on Track? The Challenges for the New Government
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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The Idea of "Central Europe" from Naumann to Kundera
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Martyn C. Rady, "The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Malgorzata Fidelis, "Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert, "Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Jacob Mikanowski, "Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land" (Pantheon Books, 2023)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Jane Rogoyska, "Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth" (Oneworld, 2021)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Future of Eastern Europe: A Discussion with Zsuzsanna Szelényi
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Piotr M. A. Cywiński, "Auschwitz: A Monograph on the Human" (Muzeum Auschwitz, 2022)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Helene J. Sinnreich, "The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos during World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Suzanna Eibuszyc, "Memory Is Our Home: Loss and Remembering--Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s" (Ibidem, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Philip W. Blood, "Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Kyrill Kunakhovich, "Communism's Public Sphere: Culture As Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Elżbieta Janicka and Michael Steinlauf, "This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Geneviève Zubrzycki, "Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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The Future of the European Left
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Kenneth B. Moss, "An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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James Mark and Paul Betts, "Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Jay Michaelson, "The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Eli Gumener, "A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow" (Slavica, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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On Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Caroline Boggis-Rolfe, "The Baltic Story: A Thousand Year History of Its Lands, Sea, and Peoples" (Amberley, 2019)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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On Maciej Miechowita's "Treatise on the Two Sarmatias"
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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The Future of the European Union: A Discussion with Luuk van Middelaar
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu, "Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Menachem Kaiser, "Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Tomek Jankowski, "Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know about the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does" (New Europe, 2021)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Yechiel Weizman, "Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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May 26, 2022 |
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K. Friedla and M. Nesselrodt, "Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
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May 25, 2022 |
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Piotr H. Kosicki, "Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956" (Yale UP, 2018)
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May 09, 2022 |
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Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 04, 2022 |
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Jochen Lingelbach, "On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Piotr Puchalski, "Poland in a Colonial World-Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918-1939" (Routledge, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Joanna Mishtal, "The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland" (Ohio UP, 2015)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Lynn Garafola, "La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Jadwiga Biskupska, "Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Joanna Sliwa, "Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Ola Hnatiuk, "Courage and Fear" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2019)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Paweł Markiewicz, "Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II" (Purdue UP, 2021)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Anat Plocker, "The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Izabela Wagner, "Bauman: A Biography" (Polity, 2020)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Anna Machcewicz, "Civility in Uncivil Times: Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison" (Peter Lang, 2020)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Andrew Demshuk, "Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, "Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Machteld Venken, "Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Eunice Blavascunas, "Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Eliyana R. Adler, "Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Patrice M. Dabrowski, "The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, "Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary" (Routledge, 2021)
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, "Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Mariusz Kalczewiak, "Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture" (U Alabama Press, 2019)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Natalia Aleksiun, "Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust" (Littman Library, 2021)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Katarzyna Person, "Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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May 28, 2021 |
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Svenja Bethke, "Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Dana Mills, "Rosa Luxemburg" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Agnieszka Kościańska, "Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Naomi Seidman, "Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition" (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Max Gross, "The Lost Shtetl" (HarperCollins, 2020)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Łukasz Stanek, "Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Andrea Bohlman, "Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Kathryn Ciancia, "On Civilization's Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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David Nasaw, "The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War" (Penguin, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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M. Wodziński and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas of Hasidism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Julius Margolin, "Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Marlene Wind, "The Tribalization of Europe: A Defence of our Liberal Values" (Polity, 2020)
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Adam Teller, "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 17th Century" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Roger Moorhouse, "Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Steven Seegel, "Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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T. Troianowska and A. Polakowska, "Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Wojtek Sawa, “The Wall Speaks: Voices of the Unheard” (National Center of Culture, 2016)
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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Erica Lehrer, “Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places” (Indiana UP, 2013)
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May 01, 2018 |
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Bonnie Anderson, “The Rabbi’s Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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Anna Muller, “If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women’s Prison in Communist Poland (Oxford University Press, 2017)
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Eddy Portnoy, “Bad Rabbi And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press” (Stanford UP, 2017)
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Steven Seegel, “Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire” (U. of Chicago Press, 2012)
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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Piotr Kosicki, “Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain” (Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2016)
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Gregory F. Domber, “Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War” (U. of North Carolina Press, 2014)
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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Per Anders Rudling, “The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931” (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)
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May 23, 2016 |
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Joshua Zimmerman, “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Mar 18, 2016 |
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Glenn Dynner, “Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Dec 01, 2015 |
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David Frick, “Kith, Kin and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in 17th-Century Wilno” (Cornell UP, 2013)
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Oct 09, 2015 |
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Tom Junes, “Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent” (Lexington, 2015)
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Sep 26, 2015 |
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Magda Romanska, “The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor” (Anthem Press, 2014)
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Juergen Matthaus et al., “War, Pacification and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
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May 18, 2015 |
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Katherine Lebow, “Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism and Polish Society, 1949-1956” (Cornell UP, 2013)
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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Andrew Demshuk, “The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
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Jul 23, 2014 |
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Clare Mulley, “The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville” (St. Martin’s, 2013)
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Jan 31, 2014 |
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Christopher Browning, “Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp” (W. W. Norton, 2010)
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Jun 18, 2013 |
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Mary Fulbrook, “A Small Near Town Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust” (Oxford UP, 2012)
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Dec 19, 2012 |
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Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, “The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After” (Columbia UP, 2005)
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Nov 08, 2012 |
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David Crowley and Susan Reid, “Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Block” (Northwestern UP, 2010)
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Mar 11, 2012 |
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Timothy Snyder, “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” (Basic Books, 2011)
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Oct 25, 2011 |
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Matthew Kelly, “Finding Poland: From Tavistock to Hruzdowa and Back Again” (Jonathan Cape, 2010)
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Jun 02, 2011 |
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Catherine Epstein, “Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Jan 27, 2011 |
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Stephen Kotkin, “Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment” (Modern Library, 2009)
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Dec 31, 2009 |
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Samuel Kassow, “Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive” (Indiana UP, 2007)
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Jan 30, 2009 |