Joanna Beata Michlic

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Joanna Beata Michlic , also Joanna Michlic-Coren (* in Łódź , Poland ) is a Polish historian who deals with the history of the Jews in Poland and the Holocaust .

Life

Michlic received her Licencjat from the University of Łódź and her Masters from the University of London . Michlic received his doctorate in 2000 from the University of London with a thesis on Ethnic nationalism and the myth of the threatening other: the case of Poland and perceptions of its Jewish minority from the late nineteenth century to the modern period . Since 2007 Michlic was Professor of Holocaust Studies and Ethics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania , USA . From 2008 Michlic worked at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University in Waltham (Massachusetts) , USA. There she founded the project Families, Children and the Holocaust. In 2013 she moved to the University of Bristol in England .

Michlic teaches at Leo Baeck College in London . She is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Center for Studies on Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide and an Honorary Senior Associate at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London.

Awards and fellowships

Michlic received

Michlic's proposal for a workshop on “Representations of Polish Rescuers of Jews in a Comparative Perspective: Lessons from the Holocaust for Contemporary Europe” was accepted for the summer workshop program of the Global Education Outreach Program (GEOP). This program takes place in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw . Scientists from Poland, the USA, Germany and Lithuania take part.

Research focus

Michlic's research focus is Polish anti-Semitism before, during and after World War II .

Works

  • Jewish families in Europe, 1939-present: history, representation, and memory , together with Sylvia Barack Fishman, BRANDEIS UNIV PR, 2017, ISBN 978-1512600094
  • Obcy jako zagrożenie: Obraz Żyda w Polsce od roku 1880 do czasów obecnych , Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emsanuela Ringelbluma, 2015, ISBN 978-8361850632
  • Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe , together with John-Paul Himka, UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2013, ISBN 978-0803225442
  • Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Poland , Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2008
  • Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present , Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 2006, ISBN 978-0803232402
  • Coming to terms with the "dark past": the Polish debate about the Jedwabne massacre , Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002, OCLC 51731173, online
  • Ethnic nationalism and the myth of the threatening other: the case of Poland and perceptions of its Jewish minority from the late Nineteenth Century to the Modern Period , University of London, 2000, OCLC 556930462

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Laurence Weinbaum on Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, by Joanna Beata Michlic at jcpa.org. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Author and Historian Joanna Beata Michlic to Brooklyn College Students: “The Study of Holocaust Survivors Can Constitute a Template for Comparative Studies of Other Victims of Genocide.” at brooklyn.cuny.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c Dr Joanna Beata Michlic at ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ Ethnic nationalism and the myth of the threatening other: the case of Poland and perceptions of its Jewish minority from the late nineteenth century to the modern period at discovery.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Eastern Europe's Difficulty with Holocaust History at blogs.brandeis.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Michlic, Joanna Beata
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michlic-Coren, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź , Poland