Metadata: Doctoral dissertations in the field of Jewish Studies submitted after the Second World War (open collection)
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- +48 22 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 312/348
- Title:
- Doctoral dissertations in the field of Jewish Studies submitted after the Second World War (open collection)
- Title (official language):
- Prace doktorskie o tematyce żydowskiej obronione po II Wojnie Światowej (kolekcja otwarta)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Historical Institute
- Date(s):
- 1950/2017
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 93 units [in 2017]; 3.5 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains doctoral dissertations written after the Second World War on Jewish history, culture, and tradition. The subject matter of the works is diverse, including the history of Jews, their presence in literature and culture (painting, philosophy), as well as the emergence of the state of Israel and its problems. The collection is open, and new works are constantly being added.
Among the 111 collected works are: Barbara Engelking-Boni "Doświadczenie Holocuastu i jego konsekwencje w relacjach autobiograficznych” (The Holocaust experience and its follow-up in autobiographical accounts), Wacław Wierzbieniec "Społeczność żydowska Przemyśla w latach 1918-1939” (Jewish community in Przemyśl in the years 1918-1939), Gabriela Zalewska "Ludność żydowska w Warszawie w okresie międzywojennym. Studium statystyczno-demograficzne” (Jewish population in Warsaw in the interwar period. Statistical-demographical study), Robert Kuwałek "Żydowska Gmina Wyznaniowa w Lublinie w latach 1821-1914. Funkcjonowanie instytucji samorządu religijnego i narodowościowego” (Jewish religious community in Lublin in the years 1821-1914. Institution of religious and national self-government), Renata Piątkowska "Roman Kramsztyk. Życie i twórczość (1885-1942)” (Roman Kramsztyk and his work 1885-1942), Grzegorz Berendt "Żydzi na terenie Wolnego Miasta Gdańska w latach 1920-1945 (Działalność kulturalna, polityczna i socjalna)” (Jews in the Free City of Gdańsk. Cultural. political and social activity), Dariusz Libionka "w prasie katolickiej w Polsce w latach trzydziestych XX wieku” ("Jewish question” in the Catholic press in Poland in the 1930s), Natalia Aleksiun "Ruch syjonistyczny w Polsce w latach 1944-1950” (Zionist movement in Poland in the years 1944-1950), Paweł Fijałkowski "Żydzi w województwach łęczyckim i rawskim w XV-XVIII wieku” (Jews in the Łęczyca and Rawa voivodships in the 15th-18th centuries), Marcin Urynowicz "Adam Czerniaków 1880-1942. Życie i działalność” (Adam Czerniaków 1880-1942. Life and works), Justyna Kowalska-Leder "Doświadczenie Zagłady z perspektywy dziecka w polskiej literaturze dokumentu osobistego” (The Holocaust experience from child’s perspective in the Polish literature of personal document), Łukasz Krzyżanowski "Dom, którego nie ma. Powroty ocalałych z Zagłady do miasta średniej wielkości w Polsce (1945-1950)” (Home that is no more. Returns of Holocaust survivors to a medium-size town in Poland, 1945-1950), Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska "Z dziejów judaizmu w XIX-wiecznym Krakowie – tożsamość, poglądy religijne i instytucje środowiska Żydów postępowych” (From the history of Judaism in the 19th century Kraków. Identity, religious views and institutions of progressive Jews), Marek Tuszewicki "Wierzenia i praktyki ludności żydowskiej na ziemiach polskich przełomu XIX i XX wieku” (Beliefs and practices of the Jewish population in the Polish lands at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries), Alicja Jarkowska-Natkaniec "Wymuszona współpraca czy zdrada? Wokół kolaboracji Żydów w okupowanym Krakowie” (Forced cooperation or treason? On collaboration of the Jews in occupied Kraków), Zofia Wóycicka "Przerwana żałoba. Spory wokół pamięci nazistowskich obozów koncentracyjnych i zagłady w Polsce 1944-1950” (Broken mourning. Controversies around memory of the Nazi concentration camps and killing centres in Poland 1944-1950), Daria Boniecka-Stępień "Charakterystyka i rola religii w myśli syjonistycznej. Na podstawie tekstów Achad Ha-Ama i Josefa Chaima Brennera” (Profile and role of religion in the Zionist thought. Based on the texts by Achad Ha-Am and Yosef Chaim Brenner), Barbara Zbroja "Oni również budowali to miasto. Środowisko architektów i budowniczych pochodzenia żydowskiego w międzywojennym Krakowie” (They built this city too. Jewish architects and builders in interwar Kraków).
Most of the doctoral dissertations in the collection were written and defended at Polish universities.
- Archival history:
- The collection includes works donated by the authors or sent to the Majer Bałaban competition organised by the Jewish Historical Institute since 1992 for the best MA and doctoral dissertations on Jewish subjects. Most of the works are by graduates of Polish universities.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The idea of organising the competition was born in 1990 in connection with the general increase in interest in the Jewish studies after the fall of communism and the political transformation in 1989. The competition was held for the first time in 1991. It was to be organised every two years, but for financial reasons (lack of donors) took place irregularly. Its fifth edition took place in 2012; it has been held every two years since then. Since 2009, it has been named after Professor Majer Bałaban, who in the interwar period taught, among others, at the Institute of Judaic Studies, the current seat of the Jewish Historical Institute.
- Access points: locations:
- Poland
- Subject terms:
- Historical research
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in order of acquisition.
- Finding aids:
- A digital catalogue (2017) is available in Polish.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Monika Taras; The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute; February 2018