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Dr. Piotr J. Wróbel holds the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies at the History Department of the University of Toronto where he also is a member of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, a fellow at Trinity College, and an associate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). He graduated from History at the University of Warsaw in 1977 where he received his Ph. D. degree in 1984. He taught there for eleven years. Prior to his appointment in 1994 in Toronto, dr. Wróbel also taught Polish, Polish Jewish, Modern European, German and Russian history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan State University at East Lansing, and at the University of California at Davis. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of European History at Mainz, at Humboldt University in Berlin, and at the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies at Oxford. During 1987-1991 he was a research fellow at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and, during 1987-88, he served as research director of a clandestine Eastern Archives, which collected materials about the Polish deportees in the Soviet Union after 1939. In 1999 he was a Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. He serves on the Advisory and Editorial Boards of Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies, The Polish Review, and Acta Poloniae Historica.Dr. Piotr J. Wróbel has authored, co-authored, or edited fourteen books and numerous articles. His most recent book is The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy co-edited with M. B. B. Biskupski and James S. Pula (Ohio University Press, 2010). He works now on a concise history of Jews in Poland. He has been supervising 17 M. A. and 18 Ph. D. students. Six of them have defended their doctoral theses and received academic appointments. Dr. Wróbel also taught at the New York University Summer School in Cracow, Poland, in 1995, and at “Poland in the Rockies,” an international symposium on Polish Studies organized by The Polish Canadian Association of Calgary together with the Canadian Foundation for Polish Studies, in Canmore, Alberta, in 2008. He co-organized and opened at the University of Toronto five historical exhibitions of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – IPN). Dr. Piotr J. Wróbel is a member of the Boards of Directors of several scholarly and cultural associations, including the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America (PIASA) and the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation in Toronto. In 2014, he received an award for outstanding efforts to promote development and cooperation between the Republic of Poland and the United States of America, called Amicus Poloniae and given by the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Washington.
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Studia Judaica, 2016
became an ethnically homogeneous state. National minorities remained beyond the newly-moved easte... more became an ethnically homogeneous state. National minorities remained beyond the newly-moved eastern border, and were largely exterminated, forcefully removed, or relocated and scattered throughout the so-called Recovered Territories (Polish: Ziemie Odzys kane). The new authorities installed in Poland took care to ensure that the memory of such minorities also disappeared. The Jews were no exception. Nearly two generations of young Poles knew nothing about them, and elder Poles generally avoided the topic. But the situation changed with the disintegration of the authoritarian system of government in Poland, as the intellectual and informational void created by censorship and political pressure quickly filled up. Starting from the mid-1980s, more and more Poles became interested in the history of Jews, and the number of publications on the subject increased dramatically. Alongside the US and Israel, Poland is one of the most important places for research on Jewish history.
East European Jewish Affairs
A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual P... more A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait, a study of a prominent figure on both Jewish and Polish political landscapes in the historical period which lasted from the beginning of the final years of the nineteenth century to the late 1930s, represents a scholarly undertaking of a particularly challenging nature. The project revives, so-to-speak, a practically forgotten epitome of the era, the multifaceted figure of a Jewish scholar, rabbi, and Zionist, who supported the idea of the Jewish state and who, at the same time, was an ardent believer in full integration of Polish-Jewish citizens into the Polish national and cultural landscape.
Canadian Journal of History
Shofar an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Apr 1, 2015
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2000
Canadian Journal of History, 2014
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2000
Canadian Slavonic Papers, Mar 1, 2009
Canadian Slavonic Papers, Jun 1, 2001
Page 1. The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 Daniel Stone A History of East Central Europe VOLU... more Page 1. The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 Daniel Stone A History of East Central Europe VOLUME Page 2. Page 3. The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 Daniel Stone For four centuries, the Polish-Lithuanian state encompassed ...
Histoire Sociale Social History, May 1, 2005
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2001
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2006
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2006
History: Reviews of New Books, 2003
Page 1. EXILE 5/ IDE11TITY Kdtherine R. Jolluck Page 2. Exile and Identity Page 3. Pitt Series in... more Page 1. EXILE 5/ IDE11TITY Kdtherine R. Jolluck Page 2. Exile and Identity Page 3. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies JONATHAN HARRIS, EDITOR Page 4. Exile and Identity POLISH WOMEN IN THE SOVIET ...
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2009
Studia Judaica, 2016
became an ethnically homogeneous state. National minorities remained beyond the newly-moved easte... more became an ethnically homogeneous state. National minorities remained beyond the newly-moved eastern border, and were largely exterminated, forcefully removed, or relocated and scattered throughout the so-called Recovered Territories (Polish: Ziemie Odzys kane). The new authorities installed in Poland took care to ensure that the memory of such minorities also disappeared. The Jews were no exception. Nearly two generations of young Poles knew nothing about them, and elder Poles generally avoided the topic. But the situation changed with the disintegration of the authoritarian system of government in Poland, as the intellectual and informational void created by censorship and political pressure quickly filled up. Starting from the mid-1980s, more and more Poles became interested in the history of Jews, and the number of publications on the subject increased dramatically. Alongside the US and Israel, Poland is one of the most important places for research on Jewish history.
East European Jewish Affairs
A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual P... more A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait, a study of a prominent figure on both Jewish and Polish political landscapes in the historical period which lasted from the beginning of the final years of the nineteenth century to the late 1930s, represents a scholarly undertaking of a particularly challenging nature. The project revives, so-to-speak, a practically forgotten epitome of the era, the multifaceted figure of a Jewish scholar, rabbi, and Zionist, who supported the idea of the Jewish state and who, at the same time, was an ardent believer in full integration of Polish-Jewish citizens into the Polish national and cultural landscape.
Canadian Journal of History
Shofar an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Apr 1, 2015
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2000
Canadian Journal of History, 2014
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2000
Canadian Slavonic Papers, Mar 1, 2009
Canadian Slavonic Papers, Jun 1, 2001
Page 1. The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 Daniel Stone A History of East Central Europe VOLU... more Page 1. The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 Daniel Stone A History of East Central Europe VOLUME Page 2. Page 3. The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 Daniel Stone For four centuries, the Polish-Lithuanian state encompassed ...
Histoire Sociale Social History, May 1, 2005
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2001
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2006
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2006
History: Reviews of New Books, 2003
Page 1. EXILE 5/ IDE11TITY Kdtherine R. Jolluck Page 2. Exile and Identity Page 3. Pitt Series in... more Page 1. EXILE 5/ IDE11TITY Kdtherine R. Jolluck Page 2. Exile and Identity Page 3. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies JONATHAN HARRIS, EDITOR Page 4. Exile and Identity POLISH WOMEN IN THE SOVIET ...
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2009