Jacob Shatzky (also: Yaakov, or Yankev Shatski; in Polish: Szacki) (1893–1956) was a distinguished Jewish historian. Shatzky was born in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...

. He received a traditional Jewish education and went on to study at universities in Lwów, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw. He earned his Ph.D. from the

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in 1922 with a thesis on "The Jewish Question in the Kingdom of Poland During the Paskiewicz Era."Mohrer, Fruma (2006). "Biographical Note."
Guide to the Papers of Jacob Shatzky, 1910-1963
'. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved June 19, 2021.
(preview only; subscription required to view full article). ''New York Times'', June 14, 1956. Retrieved June 19, 2021. Historians who studied under Shatzky include

Lucy Dawidowicz Lucy Dawidowicz ( Schildkret; June 16, 1915 – December 5, 1990) was an American historian and writer. She wrote books about modern Jewish history, in particular, she wrote books about the Holocaust. Life Dawidowicz was born in New York City a ...

.Rabinowitz, Tara (2001). "Biographical Note."
Guide to the Papers of Lucy S. Dawidowicz
'. American Jewish Historical Society. Retrieved June 19, 2021. Shatzky enlisted in Pilsudski's Legion and fought with distinction in the

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; he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He was sent by the Polish Foreign Ministry in 1918 to report on a pogrom in Vilna. He resigned from his post when it became clear that the government would not act to punish the perpetrators of the pogroms. Shatzky emigrated to the United States in 1923. He served as Chief Librarian of the

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from 1930 to 1956. He acquired the personal library of

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for the collection.

Books (in Yiddish)

* ''Gzeyres Ta"kh''

he Chmielnicki Massacres of 1648 He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...

(Vilnius: YIVO, 1938) * ''Yidishe bildungs-politik in Poyln fun 1806 biz 1866'' ewish Educational Policy in Poland from 1806 to 1866(New York: YIVO, 1943) * ''Geshikhte fun Yidn in Varshe'' he History of the Jews in Warsaw(3 volumes; New York: YIVO, 1947–1953)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shatzky, Jacob 1893 births 1956 deaths American people of Polish-Jewish descent Jewish American historians American male non-fiction writers History of YIVO 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American Jews