Citizens of Yiddishland, or When Jewish Communists Did Not Cease to Be Jewish
Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Prof. Nalewajko-Kulikov will be devoted to the milieu of Jewish Communists in prewar and postwar Poland who, despite their involvement with the Party, never ceased to identify themselves as Jewish and who felt a deep attachment to the Yiddish language and culture. They mostly survived the war in the USSR, and later headed virtually all Jewish institutions in postwar Poland, such as the Socio-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland (TSKZ) or the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. In her lecture, she will try to show how they understood their Jewishness, what made them join the Communist party before the war, and what happened to them after the antisemitic campaign of 1968.
Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov is Associate Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, and editor-in-chief of the English-language journal “Acta Poloniae Historica”. Her research focuses on the history of East European Jews in the 19th & 20th centuries, history of Yiddish press and Polish-Jewish relations.
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