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Every year, The Institute organizes a One-Day Conference that is usually held at the Polish Embassy in London at 47 Portland Place. Each year the Conference marks the launch of another volume of POLIN. Studies in Polish Jewry. So far twenty four volumes of POLIN were published. * * * 2011 Thursday 15 December 2011
Jews and their Neighbours in Eastern Europe
A One-Day Conference of the Institute
for Polish–Jewish Studies in association with the Polish Cultural
Institute and the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College
London, Thursday 15 December 2011, 9.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Hallam Conference Centre, 44
Hallam Street, London W1W 6JJ and the Polish Embassy, 47 Portland
Place, London W1B 1JH 2010
Sunday, 12 December 2010
2009 * * * 2008 This year CONFERENCE marked the twentieth anniversary of March 1968: Forty Years On: The March 1968' Anti-Zionist' Campaign and its significance for Polish-Jewish relations." It marked the publication of volume 21 of POLIN, which is on the theme "1968: Forty Years After". In the mid-1960s, public opinion in Poland turned against the Gomulka regime for a variety of reasons. In an attempt to regain public support and divert attention from the real problems, Gomulka adopted an antisemitic stance. On 19 March 1968 he delivered a speech to party activists in which he divided Jews into three categories: ‘patriotic Jews’, ‘Zionists’, and those who were neither Jews nor Poles but ‘cosmopolitans’ who should ‘avoid those fields of work where the affirmation of nationality is indispensable’. In consequence, nearly 15,000 Jews–a very large part of Poland’s Jewish community-left for Israel, western Europe, and North America, effectively ending Jewish life in the country for over a decade. The events of 1968 were long ignored by scholars but in recent years their importance in the process which led to the collapse of communism has become increasingly evident. This conference illuminates the events that triggered the crisis, the crisis itself, and its consequences.
Among speaker this year were Adam
Michnik, Antony Polonsky, Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Leszek Gluchowski,
Jaff Schatz, Leopold Sobel, Eugeniusz Smolar, Lena Stanley-Clamp,
Dariusz Stola and Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota. |
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