Marcin Wodziński is a professor of

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studies at the

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, where he heads the Taube Department of

Studies. His research is centered on the 19th century social history of

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and

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(chiefly the areas that had historically comprised Poland), and particularly on

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and the

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movement within Judaism. He has employed both qualitative as well as geospatial and quantitative methods in his study of Hasidism playing a pioneering role in the understanding of geographic factors in its development in former

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and

. This approach features notably in hi
''Historical Atlas of Hasidism''
complemented by his other closely interrelated books on the movement's history in the context of wider socio-historical processes in the region: wit
''Hasidism: Key Questions''''Hasidism: A New History''
(co-authored) and ''Studying Hasidism: Sources, Methods, Perspectives'' (co-edited). His interest in digital methods in humanities resulted also in his contributions to several projects, among others to the Yerusha project, where Wodziński was responsible for the Polish section, and to several ongoing projects focused on the collection, analysis and publication of data along with tools for digital historical analysis, in cooperation with several universities in Israel ( Bar Ilan, Haifa University,

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) and Toronto University. He was the editor-in-chief of the biannual of the Polish Association of Jewish Studies, ''Studia Judaica'' in the years 2009–2018 and, since 2021, he has served as the editor-in-chief of the ''European Journal of Jewish Studies'', published by the European Association for Jewish Studies. Wodziński worked as a historical consultant at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in

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in the years 2000–2014, for two of which he was the museum's senior historian (2010–2012). He was the head of the team responsible for the 19th century section of the permanent exhibition. Since then, he has been a member of the museum's Historical Committee. He is a member of the

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and the

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Books

* ''Hebrew Inscriptions in Silesia 13th – 18th Century'' (1996) * ''Graves of Zaddikim in Poland. On the Funeral Literature of Hasidim and its Contexts'' (1998) * ''Jewish Cemetery in Lesko. Part 1: 16th and 17th Centuries'' (co-authored with Andrzej Trzciński) (2002) * ''Bibliography on the History of Silesian Jewry II'' (2004) * ''Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland: A History of Conflict'' (2005) * ''Judaica in the archival collection of the Central Religious Authorities of the Kingdom of Poland: Archival guide'' (2010) * ''Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1867: Historical Sources in the Polish State Archives'' (2011) * ''Hasidism and Politics: The Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1864'' (2013) * ''Historical Atlas of Hasidism'' (with cartography by Waldemar Spallek) (2018)
Princeton University Press
* ''Hasidism: Key Questions'' (2018
Oxford University Press
* ''Hasidism: A New History'' (co-authored with David Assaf, David Biale, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gad Sagiv) (2018
Princeton University Press

References

External links

Marcin Wodziński's biographical note
at the homepage of the Taube Department of Jewish Studies * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wodziński, Marcin 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Living people Academic staff of the University of Wrocław Historians of Jews and Judaism People from Świdnica 1966 births 21st-century Polish historians Members of Academia Europaea

Books

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