Antony Polonsky

Antony Polonsky, Mordecai Paldiel , Wojciech Kozłowski, Jenni Frazer (2020)

Antony Barry Polonsky (born September 23, 1940 in Johannesburg ) is a South African-British historian researching the history of the Jews in Poland .

Life

Antony Polonsky grew up in a family of Polish-Russian-Jewish immigrants in South Africa . His mother tongue is English. While studying history at the University of the Witwatersrand , he sympathized with the white anti-apartheid movement . With a Rhodes Scholarship , he studied history in England at Worcester College and St Antony's College . He graduated from Oxford University with a dissertation on “ Józef Piłsudski 's relationship with parliament. The Crisis of Parliamentary Government in Poland, 1922-1931 ”. Polonsky became an expert on the history of the Jews in Poland and he got involved in Oxford for the establishment of the private Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, which was founded in 1984. In 1986, the first volume of the institute's scientific journal Polin appeared. Studies in Polish Jewry .

From 1970 he held a position as a lecturer at the Institute for International History at the London School of Economics and was appointed professor there in 1989. Since he had diverted research funds from the LSE to his institute, he left the LSE in 1991 and went to Brandeis University in the USA in 1992 . In 1999 he received the Albert Abramson Professorship in Holocaust Studies, which is located at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University. Visiting professorships took him to Warsaw, Vienna and Cape Town, and he conducted research at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies . Polonsky is involved in the controversy over the evaluation of the Jedwabne massacre , which was sparked off by Jan T. Gross' 2001 study, Neighbors , and, like this, is the target of criticism from Polish historians. Polonsky is an advisor to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Polonsky was a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews for several years and therefore also a member of the Yad Vashem Memorial Committee.

Polonsky was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 1999 and is honorary doctor of the Universities of Warsaw (2010) and Krakow (2014). In 2011 he received the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Order for Services to Lithuania .

Fonts (selection)

Polin Volume 9, 1996

• Politics in Independent Poland: The Crisis of Constitutional Government . London: Clarendon Press, 1972
• The Little Dictators: The History of Eastern Europe since 1918 . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975 ISBN 978-0-7100-8095-0
• The Great Powers and the Polish Question, 1941-1945 . London: London School of Economics, 1976 ISBN 978-0-85328-046-0
• with Bolesaw Drukier: The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland, December 1943-July 1945 . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980 ISBN 978-0-7100-0540-3
• with Oskar Halecki : A History of Poland . London: Routledge, 1983 ISBN 978-0-7100-8647-1
• with Roy Francis Leslie u. a .: The History of Poland Since 1863 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983 ISBN 978-0-521-27501-9
• (Ed.): "My Brother's Keeper?": Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust . London: Routledge, 1990 ISBN 978-0-415-04232-1
• with Norman Davies : Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46 , New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991 ISBN 978-0-312-06200-2
• Love and hate towards the dead. The current relationship between Poles and Jews , in: Peter Bettelheim (ed.): Anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe: Aspects of a historical continuity . Vienna: Picus, 1992 ISBN 3-85452-233-9 , pp. 41-64
• (Ed.): From Shtetl to Socialism . London: Littman Library, 1993, ISBN 1-874774-14-5
• with Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska (Ed.): Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology . University of Nebraska Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0-8032-3721-6
• with Joanna Beata Michlic (Ed.): The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland . Princeton University Press, 2004 ISBN 978-0-691-11306-7
• The Jews in Poland and Russia, Volume 1: 1350-1881 . Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009 ISBN 978-1-874774-64-8
• The Jews in Poland and Russia, Volume 2: 1881-1914 . Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009 ISBN 978-1-904113-83-6
• The Jews in Poland and Russia, Volume 3: 1914-2008 . Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011 ISBN 978-1-904113-48-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Antony Polonsky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Antony Polonsky in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Antony Polonsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Antony Polonsky , at Brandeis University

Individual evidence

1. ^ Antony Barry Polonsky , at BnF
2. ↑ ^{a b} Polin ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. 
3. ↑ Tony Tysome: Rebuked professor hopes for new job . In: The Times Higher Education Supplement , July 5, 1991, p. 2.