Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 37: Jews in Polish and German Lands: Encounters, Interactions, Inspirations

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François Guesnet is Professor of Modern Jewish History University College London. He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies and has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania University of Oxford the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dartmouth College Potsdam University Vilnius University and the Jagiellonian University Kraków. He is the editor with Jerzy Tomaszewski of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014) and in 2011 was awarded the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia 3 vols. (Littman Library 201012) which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Katrin Steffen is DAAD Professor of European and Jewish History and Culture at the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies. She is a member of the editorial staff of Medaon: A Journal for Jewish Life in Research and Education and has held research fellowships in Warsaw Jerusalem Lviv and Leipzig. Her publications include Blut und Metall. Die transnationale Wissensräume von Ludwik Hirszfeld und Jan Czochralski im 20 Jahrhundert (2021).