Joanna Wiszniewicz
Encyclopedia
Joanna Wiszniewicz was a Polish academic and historian. She was affiliated with the Jewish Historical Institute
and specialized in the history of the Jews in Poland
. Her writing was published in such periodicals as Jewish History Quarterly, Karta, Midrasz
, Gazeta Wyborcza
, and ResPublica Nowa. She authored A Life Cut in Two. Stories of the March Generation and And Yet I Still Have Dreams. A Story of a Certain Loneliness. She died on 31 January 2009, aged 61.
Jewish Historical Institute
The Jewish Historical Institute is a research institute in Warsaw, Poland, primarily dealing with the history of Jews in Poland.The Jewish Historical Institute was created in 1947 as a continuation of the Central Jewish Historical Commission, founded in 1944. The Jewish Historical Institute...
and specialized in the history of the Jews in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. Her writing was published in such periodicals as Jewish History Quarterly, Karta, Midrasz
Midrasz
Midrasz is a Polish language monthly journal founded in 1997 by Konstanty Gebert, a renown Polish journalist, war correspondent and Polish-Jewish activist. The journal is devoted to Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish culture, art, literature, history and religion, as well as contemporary matters....
, Gazeta Wyborcza
Gazeta Wyborcza
Gazeta Wyborcza is a leading Polish newspaper. It covers the gamut of political, international and general news. Like all the Polish newspapers, it is printed on compact-sized paper, and is published by the multimedia corporation Agora SA...
, and ResPublica Nowa. She authored A Life Cut in Two. Stories of the March Generation and And Yet I Still Have Dreams. A Story of a Certain Loneliness. She died on 31 January 2009, aged 61.