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History Matters - Annual Newsletter of History at Keele 2009-2010

MASSACRE IN JEDWABNE: POLES, JEWS AND THE PROBLEM OF A DIVIDED MEMORY

Antony Polonsky is Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is a leading authority on East-European Jewish history and specifically Polish-Jewish relations. Among his most recent books are Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (Nebraska University Press, 2001) and The Neighbours Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (Princeton University Press, 2004).

Professor Polonsky is founder of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies at Oxford, Vice-President of the American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies, former member of the International Council of the State Museum at Auschwitz, and editor-in-chief of Polin , a journal of Polish-Jewish studies.

This public lecture will take place in Room CBA 0.060, Chancellor's Building on Wednesday, December 14, at 5.00 pm

 

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