Faculty Guide

Title

Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Russian and East European Studies

Expertise

East European Jewish history. Holocaust studies.

Awards and Honors

Oskar Halecki Prize of the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), (2008)

Gantz-Zahler prize of the Foundation for Jewish Culture for a forthcoming book on Jewish history. (2007)

I have been awarded the Ina Levine Invitational Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (2007)

2006 Rafael Scharf Award for outstanding achievement in preserving and making known the heritage of Polish Jewry (2006)

Volume 17 of POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry was runner-up for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Eastern European Studies (2005)

Knight's Cross, Order of merit, Republic of Poland, for "outstanding services to studies in Polish Jewry" (1999)

National Jewish Book Award in East European Studies (IPOLIN) (1999)

Skirball Visiting Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (1997 - 1998)

Walter Stern Hilborn Chair in Judaic and Social Studies (1993)

US National Jewish Book Award in Holocaust category (A Cup of Tears) (1990)

Edith & Joseph Sunlight Memorial Prize (A Cup of Tears) (1989)

Rhodes Scholarship (Transvaal) (1960)

Abe Bailey Memorial Essay Prize (1959)

Charles Payne History Prize (1958)

Courses Taught

NEJS	136b	History and Culture of the Jews in East-Central Europe, 1914 to the Present
NEJS	137a	The Destruction of European Jewry
NEJS	138a	Genocide
NEJS	142a	Modern History of East European Jewry
NEJS	142b	Secular Jews: Lives and Choices from 1750 to the Present
NEJS	150b	History of Poland since 1750
NEJS	236a	Seminar on Modern Jewish History and Historiography
USEM	1b	Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe

Scholarship

Polonsky, Antony (with Miecyslaw Biskupski), ed. POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, volume 19: Polish-Jewish Relations in North America. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007.

Polonsky, Antony. "(with Mieczyslaw Biskupski), 'Introduction'." Studies in Polish Jewry 19. (2007): 3-53.

Polonsky, Antony. "The Jedwabne Debate in America." POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry 19. (2007): 393-414.

Polonsky, Antony (with ChaeRan Freeze and Paula Hyman), ed. POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, volume 18. Jewish Women in Eastern Europe. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006.

Polonsky, Antony. "Foreword." Jewish Life in Krakw 1918-1936. Ed. Sean, Martin. Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. ix-xiii.

Polonsky, Antony. "George Szabad: Obituary." POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, The Shtetl: Myth and Reality. vol. 17 Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004. 462-3.

Polonsky, Antony. "Poles, Jews and the Problems of Divided Memory." Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space. Kazan, 2004. 125-147.

Polonsky, Antony. "Polish-Jewish Writing in Interwar Poland." Jewish Studies (2004): 17-44.

Polonsky, Antony. "Polish-Jewish literature: An outline." History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. Ed. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer., 2004. 435-441.

Polonsky, Antony. "Rafael Scharf: Obituary." POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, The Shtetl: Myth and Reality. vol. 17 Littman Libray of Jewish Civilization, 2004. 452-9.

Polonsky,Antony. "Foreword." Maciej Golab Jzef Koffler: Compositional Style and Source Documents. Polish Music History Series: University of Southern California, 2004. xiii-xviii.

Polonsky,Antony. "Introduzione." Chone Shmeruk, Breve storia della letteratura yiddis. Rome:, 2004. 9-16.

Polonsky,Antony. "Introuction." POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, The Shtetl: Myth and Reality. vol. 17 London: Liittman of Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004. 3-24.

Polonsky,Antony. "Jews in Publishing: POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry." European Jewry. vol. 37, no.2 Berghahn Books, 2004. 39-62.

Polonsky,Antony. Books Edited. 2004.

Polonsky,Antony. Studies in Polish Jewry, volume 17, The Shtetl: Myth and Reality. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004.

Polonsky,Antony, with Monika Adamczyk Garbowska. Jewish Writing in the Comtemporary World: Poland. University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Polonsky,Antony. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 13 - Focusing on The Holocaust and its Aftermath. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001.

Polonsky,Antony. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 14 - Focusing on Jews in the Polish Borderlands. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001.

Polonsky,Antony, ed. POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 11. The Jewish Religious Experience in Poland: Aspects and Varieties. Portland OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilizatio, 1999.

Polonsky,Antony, ed. POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 12. Jews, Poles and Ukrainians in Galicia 1772-1918. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1999.

Polonsky,Antony, ed. POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 10. Jews in Early Modern Poland. London & Washington DC: Littman Library of Jewish, 1997.

Polonsky, Antony, ed. POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry. Poles, Jews, Socialists: The Failure of an Ideal. London & Washington: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1995.

Polonsky,Antony, co-ed. Ezra Mendelsohn & Jerzy Tomaszewski. Polin: Jews in Independent Poland 1918-1939. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1994.

Polonsky,Antony, ed.. Studies from Polin: From Shtetl to Socialism. Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1993.

Polonsky,Antony, trans. Artur Eisenbach. The Emancipation of the Jews in Poland. Blackwells, 1991.

Polonsky,Antony, with Norman Davies. Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-1946. MacMillan, 1991.

Polonsky,Antony. The Jews in Warsaw (with Wladyslaw Bartoszewski). Blackwells, 1991.

Polonsky,Antony. Journal du Ghetto de Varsovie: Une coupe de larmes. Paris: Plon, 1990.

Polonsky,Antony, with S. Gomulka. Polish Paradoxes. Routledge, 1989.

Polonsky,Antony. 'My Brother's Keeper?' Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust. Routledge, 1989.

Polonsky,Antony, Basil Blackwell. A Cup of Tears: A Diary from the Warsaw Ghetto. Abraham Lewin, 1988.

Polonsky,Antony, with C. Abramsky & M. Jachimczyk. The Jews in Poland. Basil Blackwell, 1986.

Polonsky,Antony, with R.J. Bullen & H. Pogge von Strandmann. Ideas into Politics: Aspects of European History 1880-1950. Croom Helm, 1984.

Polonsky,Antony, with R.F. Leslie, J. Ciechanowski & Z. Pelczyski. The History of Poland since 1863. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Polonsky,Antony, with B. Drukier. The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland, December 1943-July 1945. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.

Polonsky,Antony. A History of Poland. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.

Polonsky,Antony. The Little Dictators: The History of Eastern Europe since 1918. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975.

Polonsky,Antony. Politics in Independent Poland: The Crisis of Constitutional Government. Clarendon Press, 1972.

Polonsky,Antony. The Great Powers and the Polish Question 1941-45. London School of Economics, 1970.