The article aims to examine the position of Rola regarding the disclosure of the confidential Memorandum of the Stock Exchange Committee in Warsaw. Besides the circumstances of the creation of this document, I am closely analyzing the magazine’s strong reaction and journalists’ statements on the matter. I emphasize the fact that it was precisely the antisemitic Rola magazine, whose editor boasted of uncompromisingly discussing Jewish issues, that felt entitled to comment on it as the only legitimate platform. In the article, I cite the most vivid statements authored by the editor of the magazine himself, Jan Jeleński, as well as collaborators. In conclusion, I point out that according to the journalists of Rola, they played a key role in exposing the hypocrisy allegedly accompanying the process of assimilation of Polish Jews.

After 1989 Poland decided to re-establish diplomatic relations to the State of Israel that were severed in 1967. Poland also opted for the dialogue between Poles and Jews that was very limited during communist period. Lech Wałęsa as President was keen on opening new contacts with the Jewish diaspora and Israel. Wałęsa visited Israel as first ever Polish President and Chaim Herzog visited Poland as well. In the 1990s key anniversary ceremonies were organized commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the liberation of the Nazi German camp Auschwitz. In those years the issues of anti-Semitism and complexity of Polish-Jewish relations, particularly during the Holocaust, were addressed.

The family identity of the Reiters and their escape from the city of Drohobych are highlighted. The Lviv period in the life of student Diana Reiter – one of the first young Jewish women to take advantage of access to the higher studies of exact sciences at the Lviv Polytechnic University – has been carefully studied. The article also traces the career experience of this female architect in the 1920s and 30s, and her participation in the Jewish and architectural societies of Lviv and Kraków. The last minutes of her life in the ghetto are reflected on, as is the importance of historical memory.

The article presents a text containing a printed Karaite Creed in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Urmia (Orumiyeh) in Iranian Azerbaijan.

The article is devoted to the Jewish Calendar [Kalendarz Żydowski] published by the Religious Union of the Mosaic Faith [Związek Religijny Wyznania Mojżeszowego] in Poland in the 1980s. In addition to the abbreviated liturgical calendar and the most important prayers, Kalendarz Żydowski included numerous articles on Jewish history, religion and culture and featured important events in the life of the Jewish community. The texts published in Kalendarz Żydowski were written by, among others, activists from different Jewish organisations reporting on their work. By virtue of the publisher, the most extensive of those were, of course, the regularly published reports on the activities of the Religious Union of the Mosaic Faith. Articles on the work of other organisations usually appeared in conjunction with the anniversary of their establishment. The aim of this paper is to examine what elements of Jewish life are addressed in Kalendarz Żydowski, and which changes taking place within the Jewish community it reflects.

W listopadzie 2000 roku w Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim powstała, w wyniku przekształcenia Międzywydziałowego Zakładu Historii i Kultury Å»ydów w Polsce, Katedra Judaistyki, która weszła w skład Wydziału Historycznego. MajÄ c na uwadze rozwój tego nowego kierunku studiów, podjęto decyzję, aby powołać międzynarodowe czasopismo poświęcone głównym aspektom studiów żydowskich. W periodyku, który ukazuje się jako rocznik, publikowane sÄ zarówno artykuły, jak i recenzje, głównie po angielsku, ale materiały w języku niemieckim i francuskim także sÄ akceptowane.

The article examines the usefulness of the genealogical method in research on the Kielce pogrom. An analysis of the stories of individual people – victims of the pogrom will reveal a broader background of this tragic event. In the text, we will also try to answer some important research questions. Is the list of victims complete? Does it include the names of people who did not, in fact, perish during the pogrom? In addition, the article presents new research areas within the described issues.

In the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century Galician Jews gradually left the isolated world of traditional culture for the open worldwide culture. At the start, they knew only one path of life, based on many centuries of tradition, but at the end it provided many paths to self-realization. Some of them were still devoted, other secular, some of them felt Jews, others felt Poles of Mosaic faith or Germans of Mosaic faith, some were involved in the Zionist movement, others in socialism. Many of them considered Galicia to be their own little motherland and manifested the features of local patriotism. It was possible thanks to the modernization of their lifestyle, and public education turned out to be one of the most important factors in this process. It was possible also thanks to the country authorities creating conditions which encouraged Jews to send their children to public school. Consequently, the majority of Jewish boys and girls completed compulsory education. It was the first step towards the modernization of their life.

The fledgling processes of the single-state governmental system of the reborn Polish state in 1920 were intended to deal with many current challenges and historical backgrounds. The article analyses the causes and different contexts and conditions which were forged to initiate the Polish-Jewish negotiations of 1925. The primary attention is focused on the solutions to the economic crisis and its consequences. Also, we consider the in-house situation between different factions in the Jewish Club to better understand all the pros and cons that made the future agreements possible. To provide such analysis of the Polish-Jewish negotiations, we use the Rogers Brubaker’s nationalising approach, which lets us examine the interactions between the Polish state nationalismand the nationalism of East Galician Zionists. We also apply multiple situational analysis to investigate the ample variety of reasons behind those negotiations. This approach allowed us to consider the 1925 Agreement in the broad geopolitical context in which both sides were interested.