Dr. Kamil Kijek, visiting professor at EHESS for one month from May 24 to June 24, 2021

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Dr Kamil Kijek, Jewish Studies Department, University of Wrocław

Kamil Kijek is an Assistant Professor at the Jewish Studies Department, University of Wrocław, Poland.  He has been a Prins Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York and Sosland Family Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. During his doctoral studies he held various fellowships in Israel, Germany and United Kingdom. His research interest includes Central-East European Jewish History in the end of XIX and in XX century, social and cultural theory. In 2018 he has received an international prize for an outstanding publication in the topic of “Jews and Illiberal Regimes in Eastern Europe after 1917” granted by The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East-European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the book “Dzieci modernizmu.” His current major research project is entitled “Polish Shtetl after the Holocaust? Jews in Dzierżoniów, 1945-1950”.

The Lubartworld team is delighted to welcome him for a month. He will be available to meet with students, by appointment, at 10 rue Monsieur le Prince.

 

 

Seminars of Kamil Kijek in Paris

CERCEC seminar – May 31 – 5-7PM – “Yiddishe Yishev in Nidershlezye’. Was there real Jewish autonomy in the first years of post-Holocaust Poland?” (if you wish to follow the seminar by zoom without being registered, ask the link to alain.blum@ehess.fr)

Études juives seminar – June 1rst – 1-3PM: – Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers): “Children of modernism. Jewish youth political culture in Interwar Poland” (if you wish to follow the seminar by zoom without being registered, ask the link to yann.scioldozurcher@ehess.fr)

Histoire et historiographie de la Shoah seminar – June 3rd – 3-5PM: “Transnationalism of Polish Jews after the Holocaust. The case of Raichenbach/Dzierżoniów” (if you wish to follow the seminar by zoom without being registered, ask the link to florent.brayard@ehess.fr)

Histoire et littérature seminar, Judith Lyon-Caen – June 4th – 11AM-1PM: “Generation of readers? Evolution of Jewish reading patterns in Interwar Poland and what does it tell us about changing character of Eastern European Jewish culture before the Holocaust” (ask the link to jlc@ehess.fr)

Participation-discussion to the Lubartworld Workshop, June 10 and 11, 2021.

A few of Kamil Kijek’s publications include

Dzieci modernizmu. Świadomość i socjalizacja polityczna młodzieży żydowskiej w Polsce międzywojennej [Children of modernism. Socialization and Political Consciousness of the Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland], Wrocław, 2017

“Was It Possible to avoid ‘Hebrew Assimilation’? Hebraism, Polonization, and the Zionist ‘Tarbut‘ School System in the Last Decade of Interwar Poland”, Jewish Social Studies, vol. 21-2, 2016, p. 105-141

“Between love of Poland, symbolic violence and anti-Semitism. On the idiosyncratic effect of the state education system among the Jewish youth in Interwar Poland”, Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 30, 2018, p. 237-264

He has edited (with Grzegorz Krzywiec) special issue of Kwartalnik Historii Żydów, vol. 28 (258), 2016, devoted to the problems of anti-Semitism in Poland in the years 1905-1939

He has also co-edited three collected studies Polish language volumes on the problems of anti-Jewish violence in XIX and XX century Poland:Kamil Kijek. Artur Markowski, Konrad Zieliński (eds.), Pogromy Żydów na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku. t. 3: Historiografia, polityka, recepcja społeczna (do 1939 roku), Warszawa, 2019Kamil Kijek. Artur Markowski, Konrad Zieliński (eds.), Pogromy Żydów na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku. t. 2: Studia przypadków (do 1939 roku), Warszawa, 2019 Kamil Kijek, Konrad Zieliński (eds.), Przemoc antyżydowska i konteksty akcji pogromowych na ziemiach polskich w XX wieku, Lublin, 2017