Jewish Historical Institute
Founded | 1947 |
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Coordinates | 52°14′39″N 21°00′10″E / 52.244167°N 21.002778°E |
Area served | Poland |
Website | http://www.jhi.pl/en |
The Jewish Historical Institute (
History
The Jewish Historical Institute was created in 1947 as a continuation of the
The most valuable part of the collection is the
Other important collections concerning World War II include testimonies (mainly of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust), memoirs and diaries, documentation of the Joint and Jewish Self-Help (welfare organizations active in Poland under the occupation), and documents from the Jewish Councils (Judenräte). The section on the documentation of Jewish historical sites holds about 40 thousand photographs concerning Jewish life and culture in Poland.[1]
The institute has published a series of documents from the Ringelblum Archive, as well as numerous wartime memoirs and diaries.[2] Also, for over 60 years now, the institute has been publishing an academic journal renamed in 2001 as the Jewish History Quarterly (Polish: Kwartalnik Historii Żydów), registered on the Master Journal List of outstanding academic journals in 2011.[3]
In 2021, Monika Krawczyk, a lawyer and the managing director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in the years 2004–2019, was appointed the Director of the Jewish Historical Institute by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.[4]
In 2024, a group of Institute employees sent a letter to the new Minister of Culture and National Heritage, calling the director "authoritarian and incompetent".[5]
Directors
- Nachman Blumental, 1947 to 1949
- Bernard Ber Mark , 1949 to 1966
- Artur Eisenbach, 1966 to 1968
- Szymon Datner, 1969 to 1970
- Feliks Tych, 1995 to 2006
- Eleonora Bergman, 2007-2011
- Paweł Śpiewak, 2011-2020
- Monika Krawczyk , 2021-2024
- Michał Trębacz, acting director since 2024
Further reading
- Weiner, Miriam; Ukrainian State Archives (in cooperation with); Moldovan State Archives (in cooperation with) (1999). "Chapter Five: Jewish Historical Institute" Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories . Secaucus, NJ: Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation. p. 163-166. ISBY 978-0-96-565081-6. OCLC 607423469.
References
- ^ a b c "The Jewish Historical Institute, homepage". Archived from the original on 2019-11-20. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ISBN 978-3-525-36934-0
- ^ Jewish Historical Institute, The Jewish History Quarterly. Archived 2019-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jewish Historical Institute, Monika Krawczyk appointed director of the Jewish Historical Institute
- ^ שװאַרץ, פֿיליפּ (2024-02-21). "Warsaw's Jewish Historical Institute publicly calls its director authoritarian and incompetent". The Forward (in Yiddish). Retrieved 2024-02-26.