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June 23, 2022
Jozef Pilsudski
Founding Father of Modern Poland
Joshua D. Zimmerman
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Piotr Kosicki
In the 1920s, Józef Piłsudski was a household name not just in Poland, but across Europe and across the Atlantic Ocean as well. Yet this complex and contradictory figure – …
Polish Studies
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Arguing History
June 21, 2022
Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
A Discussion with John-Paul Himka, David R. Stone, and Alexander Watson
John-Paul Himka, David R. Stone, and Alexander Watson
Hosted by
Charles Coutinho
In the midst of the ongoing war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, it is vital that the lay-educated public understand the historical origins of the conflict. It is with …
General History
June 3, 2022
Eastern Europe!
Everything You Need to Know about the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does
Tomek Jankowski
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Lia Paradis
Prime Minister Pierre Eliot Trudeau once gave a press conference while visiting Washington, during which he famously said: "Living next to [the United States] is in some ways like sleeping …
Jewish Studies
May 26, 2022
Unsettled Heritage
Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust
Yechiel Weizman
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Amber Nickell
In Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust (Cornell UP, 2022), Yechiel Weizman explores what happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places …
Jewish Studies
May 25, 2022
Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959)
History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival
Katharina Friedla and Markus Nesselrodt
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Amber Nickell
The majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. Polish Jews in the Soviet …
Catholic Studies
May 9, 2022
Catholics on the Barricades
Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956
Piotr H. Kosicki
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Brenna Moore
In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life--not with guns, but French philosophy. Piotr H. Kosicki's book Catholics on …
Eastern European Studies
May 4, 2022
Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh
Body, Belief, and Human Identity
Stanley Bill
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Piotr Kosicki
In Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021), Cambridge professor Stanley Bill offers a profoundly original, fine-grained, and rich interpretation of the …
Eastern European Studies
April 6, 2022
On the Edges of Whiteness
Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War
Jochen Lingelbach
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Piotr Kosicki
As the horrors of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a massive wave of refugees absorbed by a range of Eastern European countries – …
Eastern European Studies
April 5, 2022
Poland in a Colonial World Order
Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918-1939
Piotr Puchalski
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Steven Seegel
Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918-1939 (Routledge, 2021) is a study of the interwar Polish state and empire building project in a changing world of empires, nation-states …
Eastern European Studies
March 21, 2022
The Politics of Morality
The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland
Joanna Mishtal
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Piotr Kosicki
In the fall of 2020, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal decreed that the country’s near-total ban on abortion was too liberal; henceforth, pregnancies could be terminated only in cases of rape, incest …
Performing Arts
March 8, 2022
La Nijinska
Choreographer of the Modern
Lynn Garafola
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Victoria Phillips
Lynn Garafola's La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern (Oxford UP, 2022) is both readable and rigorous, a rare combination. As a historian and eminent dance scholar, Garafola brings her skills …
Eastern European Studies
March 4, 2022
Survivors
Warsaw under Nazi Occupation
Jadwiga Biskupska
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Piotr Kosicki
Survivors tells the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation. As the epicenter of Polish resistance, Warsaw was subjected to violent persecution, the ghettoization of the city's Jewish …
Jewish Studies
February 25, 2022
Jewish Childhood in Kraków
A Microhistory of the Holocaust
Joanna Sliwa
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Ari Barbalat
Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust (Rutgers UP, 2021) is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens …
Brill on the Wire
February 23, 2022
Exploring Autonomy
A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
François Guesnet
Hosted by
Leigh Giangreco
The emergence of self-government in the Jewish community in Eastern Europe has been a slow process, often encouraged by invitations of existing regimes and sometimes to escape state persecution. Nonetheless …
Ukrainian Studies
February 8, 2022
Courage and Fear
Ola Hnatiuk
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Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, Lviv… The city, which is located in the western part of Ukraine, evokes a highly entangled past that contains references to a number of nations, ethnicities, empires …
Eastern European Studies
February 1, 2022
Unlikely Allies
Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II
Paweł Markiewicz
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Steven Seegel
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration …
Eastern European Studies
January 12, 2022
The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland
Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties
Anat Plocker
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Piotr Kosicki
In The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties (Indiana University Press, 2022), Anat Plocker examines the campaign of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism that swept through Poland …
Eastern European Studies
December 17, 2021
Bauman
A Biography
Izabela Wagner
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Vladislav Lilic
Global thinker, public intellectual, and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became …
Eastern European Studies
December 15, 2021
Civility in Uncivil Times
Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison
Anna Machcewicz
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Piotr Kosicki
In Civility in Uncivil Times: Kazimierz Moczarski’s Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison (Peter Lang, 2020), Anna Machcewicz offers a powerful case study in the …
Eastern European Studies
December 14, 2021
Three Cities After Hitler
Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders
Andrew Demshuk
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Amber Nickell
Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes …
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