Call For Papers: Bridging Divides. Rupture and Continuity in Polish Jewish History
We invite you to send abstracts to the conference organized on the 75th anniversary of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. The conference will be held in English.
Archives and libraries – by spanning several time periods – tend to reinforce the continuities of Polish Jewish civilization, notwithstanding its significant ruptures and historiographical divides. Even the study of the Holocaust, as David Engel has recently argued, stands to benefit from removing the wall that has separated its study from the rest of Polish Jewish history.
In honor of its 75th anniversary, the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, together with the Yale University Fortunoff Archive and the Yeshiva University Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will host . . . READ MORE