The Rise and Fall of a Post-Holocaust Jewish Settlement in Polish Lower Silesia -- Kamil Kijek
The Rise and Fall of a Post-Holocaust Jewish Settlement in Polish Lower Silesia -- Kamil Kijek
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.
Event Flyer: https://jewishstudies.umd.edu/sites/jewishstudies.umd.edu/files/Kamil%20Kijek%20Wednesday%20September%209%202015.pdf