Magdalena Kozłowska, Easterners: Polish Jews Looking at Middle Eastern Jews in the Interwar Period

When and Where

Monday, March 11, 2024 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Room 100
Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

Speakers

Magdalena Kozłowska

Description

Roz and Ralph Halbert Lecture in Jewish Studies

Magdalena Kozłowska (University of Warsaw)

Easterners: Polish Jews Looking at Middle Eastern Jews in the Interwar Period 
Drawing from archival research and employing a multidisciplinary approach, I will shed light on how Polish Jews navigated their perceptions of Jews from the Middle East, shaping discourses on modernity, race, and identity. The talk will also explore the broader historical and cultural contexts that influenced these perceptions, highlighting the intersections between Polish-Jewish history and global Orientalist discourses.

 

Magdalena Kozłowska holds a doctorate in Jewish Studies from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She works as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include social history of Jews mainly in the interwar period and the history of orientalism. She is the author of Świetlana przyszłość? Żydowski Związek Młodzieżowy Cukunft wobec wyzwań międzywojennej Polski (A Bright Future: The Jewish Youth Association Tsukunft Faces the Challenges of Interwar Poland, 2016), the editor and translator from Yiddish of Wojna w Hiszpanii. Reportaż z głębi kraju (The Spanish Civil War: Report from the Hinterlands/Krig in Shpanien: Hinterland) by S. L. Shneiderman (2021), and the editor of  a volume The World beyond the West: Perspectives from Eastern Europe (2022, with Mariusz Kałczewiak). Her publications include articles in East European Politics and SocietiesAspasiaMiddle Eastern StudiesJournal of Southeast Asian Studies, and Jewish Culture and History.

 

 

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This event will be delivered in-person in JHB100 (170 St. George Street) on Monday, March 11, 2024 at 4 PM.

Sponsors

Roz and Ralph Halbert Fund in Jewish Studies

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170 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

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