Jewish Historical Institute
The Jewish Historical Institute ( Polish Żydowski Instytut Historyczny , ŻIH for short ; Yiddish ייִדישער היסטאָרישער אינסטיטוט) in Warsaw houses one of the most important collections on Jewish history in Poland , including the Ringelblum Archive ( Oneg Shabbat ), and is an important research institution on the subject of Jews Poland. There are also two permanent exhibitions in the institute on the subjects of Jewish life in Poland and its destruction in the Holocaust .
The seat is in the former main Judaic library, which was completed in 1936. Opposite was the Great Synagogue (Warsaw) , which was blown up by SS group leader Jürgen Stroop at the end of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising on May 16, 1943 .
Nachman Blumental was the first director of the institute from 1947 to 1949 .
See also
- Warsaw Ghetto (ditto, as well as CD documentary from the work of the institute)
- Museum of the History of Polish Jews
- Virtual shtetl
literature
- Stephan Stach: Jewish Historical Institute , in: Dan Diner (ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-24780-6 , pp. 273-276.
- Jan Jagielski, Christina Manetti, Jürgen Hensel, Eleonora Bergman, Feliks Tych: Guide to the Jewish Historical Institute. Zydowski Instytut Historyczny, Warsaw 2003, ISBN 83-85888-76-4 .
Web links
- Official website of the Jewish Historical Institute (Polish / English /)
- Jewish Historical Institute ( Feliks Tych ) - YIVO Encyclopedia
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 39 ″ N , 21 ° 0 ′ 10 ″ E