Lecture by Professor Kamil Kijek
The Rise & Fall of a Post Holocaust Polish Jewish Settlement
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 · 12:30 - 2 PM
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at The
University of Maryland
Presents:
The Rise and Fall of a Post-Holocaust Jewish Settlement in Polish Lower
Silesia
A lecture by:
Professor Kamil Kijek
University of Wroclaw, Poland
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
12:30 - 2:00 PM
3105 Susquehanna Hall (Building 233)
4200 Lehigh Rd.
In the years 1945-1950 a unique Jewish community existed in Polish Lower
Silesia. The talk will be about how the establishment of a full-blown
totalitarian system of power caused the demise of Jewish autonomy in Lower Silesia.
Kamil Kijek is currently a post-doctoral Fellow at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum and has been appointed as Associate Professor
at the Jewish Studies department at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
His main research interests are Jewish political history, problems of
modernism, political violence, questions of multiculturalism, and
transnationalism in late 19th and 20th century Central and Eastern Europe.
For more information Visit www.jewishstudies.umd.edu
or call 301-405-4975 or email jwst-contact.umd.edu
University of Maryland
Presents:
The Rise and Fall of a Post-Holocaust Jewish Settlement in Polish Lower
Silesia
A lecture by:
Professor Kamil Kijek
University of Wroclaw, Poland
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
12:30 - 2:00 PM
3105 Susquehanna Hall (Building 233)
4200 Lehigh Rd.
In the years 1945-1950 a unique Jewish community existed in Polish Lower
Silesia. The talk will be about how the establishment of a full-blown
totalitarian system of power caused the demise of Jewish autonomy in Lower Silesia.
Kamil Kijek is currently a post-doctoral Fellow at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum and has been appointed as Associate Professor
at the Jewish Studies department at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
His main research interests are Jewish political history, problems of
modernism, political violence, questions of multiculturalism, and
transnationalism in late 19th and 20th century Central and Eastern Europe.
For more information Visit www.jewishstudies.umd.edu
or call 301-405-4975 or email jwst-contact.umd.edu