Alina Cała

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Alina Cała

Alina Cała (born 19 May 1953 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer, historian and sociologist. A former board member of the Jewish Historical Institute,[1] she specialises in 19th and 20th century Polish-Jewish history, antisemitism and Jewish assimilation in Central and Eastern Europe.

Life

After 1976 Alina Cała collaborated with the

Greens 2004 party.[citation needed
]

As a historian, Alina Cała focuses mostly on Polish-Jewish relations in the last two centuries. Among her most important works is the Assimilation of Jews in the Kingdom of Poland (1864-1897) (published in 1989).[2] Her most cited work is The Image of the Jew in Polish Folk Culture (1st edition 1987), also published since in English.[3] In recent years she published a variety of historical books on modern Polish-Jewish history, notably the ideological views of the last generation of Jewish-Polish youth before the war,[4] and the Polish-Jewish history between 1944 and 1968.

In a 2009 interview with the Polish newspaper

Jan Grabowski. Her views have been criticized by historians Andrzej Paczkowski, Piotr Gontarczyk, and Jerzy Woźniak.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ Jewish Historical Institute of Poland (2013). "Alina Cała" (in Polish and English). Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2013-10-09. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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  5. ISSN 0208-9130. Archived from the original
    on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  6. ^ Sebastian Górkiewicz, Andrzej Arseniuk (27 May 2009). "Przegląd Mediów – 27 maja 2009" (PDF). Institute of National Remembrance. Retrieved December 23, 2009.
  7. daily
    , 27.05.2009. (in Polish)
  8. Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
    (wersja tekstowa), 2009. (in Polish)

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