Polish-Jewish Studies Explained

Type:History magazine
Owners:Institute of National Remembrance
Country:Poland
Based:Warsaw
Editor:Grzegorz Berendt
Issn:2719-4086
Website:Polish-Jewish Studies

Polish-Jewish Studies is an annual, peer-reviewed journal which is published by the Institute of National Remembrance since 2020, focused on Polish-Jewish history.

Editors

The journal's Editor-in-Chief is Grzegorz Berendt. Its editorial board includes, and . John Radzilowski, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Bogdan Musiał, Peter Stachura,, and are among its consulting editors.[1]

Reception

Kornelia Kończal, historian and an assistant professor at Bielefeld University, found the absence of international scholars as well as those from the Polish Center for Holocaust Research or the many centers for Jewish studies across Polish universities in the editorial board conspicuous. Writing before the journal published its first issue, she made a prediction that the journal will "solidify the narrative of Polish innocence and self-sacrifice in helping Jews during the war".[2]

Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, chair of the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, replied to a critical review of her work published in that journal. Finding it unfair, she exclaimed that even to enquire whether the journal had any meaningful peer-review process was a rhetorical exercise; she also noted that three editors associated with the journal as of the time she was writing her article (Berendt, Chodakiewicz, and Rafał Sierchuła) had at various points engaged in controversial speech on Jews.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://ipn.gov.pl/pl/publikacje/periodyki-ipn/polish-jewish-studies
  2. Kończal . Kornelia . August 2021 . Mnemonic Populism: The Polish Holocaust Law and its Afterlife . European Review . en . 29 . 4 . 457–469 . 10.1017/S1062798720000502 . 1062-7987. free .
  3. Tokarska-Bakir . Joanna . 2021 . Pulp: My reply to Ryszard Śmietanka-Kruszelnicki . Studia Litteroria Historica . 10 . 10 . 10.11649/slh.2556 . free.