Roz and Ralph Halbert Lecture in Jewish Studies
Magdalena Kozłowska (University of Warsaw)
Easterners: Polish Jews Looking at Middle Eastern Jews in the Interwar Period
Drawing from archival research and employing a multidisciplinary approach, I will shed light on how Polish Jews navigated their perceptions of Jews from the Middle East, shaping discourses on modernity, race, and identity. The talk will also explore the broader historical and cultural contexts that influenced these perceptions, highlighting the intersections between Polish-Jewish history and global Orientalist discourses.
Magdalena Kozłowska holds a doctorate in Jewish Studies from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She works as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include social history of Jews mainly in the interwar period and the history of orientalism. She is the author of Świetlana przyszłość? Żydowski Związek Młodzieżowy Cukunft wobec wyzwań międzywojennej Polski (A Bright Future: The Jewish Youth Association Tsukunft Faces the Challenges of Interwar Poland, 2016), the editor and translator from Yiddish of Wojna w Hiszpanii. Reportaż z głębi kraju (The Spanish Civil War: Report from the Hinterlands/Krig in Shpanien: Hinterland) by S. L. Shneiderman (2021), and the editor of a volume The World beyond the West: Perspectives from Eastern Europe (2022, with Mariusz Kałczewiak). Her publications include articles in East European Politics and Societies, Aspasia, Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and Jewish Culture and History.
14 май 2024
