מרסין וודזינסקי


Marcin Wodziński is Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław. His special fields of interest are the social history of the Jews in the nineteenth century, the regional history of the Jews in Silesia, and Jewish sepulchral art. He is the author of several books, including Hasidism and Politics: The Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1864(2013), also published by the Littman Library, and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1867: Historical Sources in the Polish State Archives (2011). He is the co-editor of Jews in Silesia (2001); a special triple issue of Jewish History entitled Towards A New History of Hasidism (2013); Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry,volume 27: Jews in Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1914 (forthcoming); and of the Bibliotheca Judaica and Makor/Źródła series. He is vice president of the Polish Association of Jewish Studies and editor in chief of its periodical, Studia Judaica. In 2011 he was awarded the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Prize by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
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