*IN YIDDISH* Magdalena Kozłowska, "Shvester mayne! Empowerment Through Activism: Tsukunft and young Jewish women in interwar Poland"

Himel Family Yiddish Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Al and Malka Green Fund in Yiddish Studies

Magdalena Kozłowska (University of Warsaw)

Shvester mayne! Empowerment Through Activism: Tsukunft and young Jewish women in interwar Poland

This talk will explore the empowering role of Tsukunft, the youth organization of the Bund socialist party, in fostering female activism during interwar Poland. Using archival materials I will delve into the experiences of young Tsukunft women who learned from their female role models how to organize, rebel, resist, and fight against injustice. 

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 Societies, Aspasia, Middle Eastern Studies, Journal 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). 

Due to technical difficulties, we are not able to provide a Zoom link for this event. The recording of this lecture will be posted on the ATCJS Youtube channel after March 12, 2024. Thank you for your understanding.