Joshua D. Zimmerman (born 1966) holds the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History at
Yeshiva University
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. He is the author or editor of several works about
the Holocaust
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University of California, Los Angeles
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in 1993 and a PhD in comparative history from
Brandeis University
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in February 1998. He is proficient in Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew, Russian, and French. In 2004 he was appointed an associate professor of history at Yeshiva University in New York City.
Work
''Contested Memories'' (2003), a volume Zimmerman edited, was described by the publisher as "the first attempt since the fall of Communism to reassess the existing historiography of
Polish-Jewish relations
The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the lon ...
just before, during, and after the
Second World War
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Career
Gitelman received a Ph.D., an M.A., and a B.A. degree from Columbia University. He has usually written about the connection of ...
Samuel Kassow
Samuel D. Kassow (born 1946) is an American historian of the history of Ashkenazi Jewry.
Early life
Kassow was born in a displaced persons' camp in Stuttgart, Germany. His mother survived because a classmate hid her and her sister in a dug-out ...
,
Dariusz Stola
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Stanisław Krajewski
Stanisław Krajewski (born 1950) is a Polish philosopher, mathematician and writer, activist of the Jewish minority in Poland.
Biography
He is professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw, author, leader of the Jewish community in Pola ...
,
Feliks Tych
Feliks Tych (31 July 1929, Warsaw, Poland – 16 February 2015, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish historian and educator.
From 1995 to 2006, he was Director of the Jewish Historical Institute (''Żydowski Instytut Historyczny''), served as member ...
Michael C. Steinlauf
Michael C. Steinlauf is an Associate Professor of History at Gratz College, Pennsylvania. Steinlauf teaches Jewish history, theatre and culture in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations.
.
His 2005 book, ''The Jews of Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922–1945'', was reviewed by Davide Rodogno, who wrote that the book is "refreshing and certainly worth reading", with some chapters being "outstanding", though he noted that the book would benefit from more discussion of the "myth of the benevolence of the Fascist regime", as well as of the "lack of academic interest in Italian anti-Semitism before the 1980s".''
His 2015 book, '' The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945'', received a number of overall positive reviews. In ''
Yad Vashem Studies
Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...
'',
Antony Polonsky
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The Polish Review
''The Polish Review'' is an English-language academic journal published quarterly in New York City by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. ''The Polish Review'' was established in 1956.
Editors-in-chief
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'': "The real achievement of Zimmerman's book is to present the light and shadow in the perspective of these difficult years, to note specific facts and trends, and to avoid overly broad generalizations."Theodore R. Weeks, review in ''
The Polish Review
''The Polish Review'' is an English-language academic journal published quarterly in New York City by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. ''The Polish Review'' was established in 1956.
Editors-in-chief
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'', vol. 63, no. 1, 2018, pp. 107–9; quotation, p. 108.