Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. From 2000 to 2011 she was the head of the Centre for Jewish Studies. She is the author of Polska Isaaca Bashevisa Singera: Rozstanie i powrót (Lublin, 1994); Odcienie tożsamości: Literatura żydowska jako zjawisko wielojęzyczne (Lublin, 2004); and Kazimierz vel Kuzmir: Miasteczko różnych snów (Lublin, 2006). She is the co-editor, with Antony Polonsky, of Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (Lincoln, Nebr., 2001); and the coeditor of Tam był kiedyś mój dom…: Księgi pamięci gmin żydowskich (Lublin, 2009) and Jewish Presence in Absence: The Aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland, 1944‒2010 (Jerusalem, 2014). In 2004 she received the Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award for research in the field of Yiddish.
Maria Antosik-Piela graduated from the Department of Polish Language and Literature at the University of Warsaw and is currently preparing her doctoral dissertation on Zionism in Polish Jewish literature in the years 1892–1939. She is the editor, with Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, of Twarzą ku nocy: Twórczość literacka Maurycego Szymla (Kraków, 2015). Currently she is working with Zuzanna Kołodziejska on a monograph and anthology devoted to Polish Jewish literature between 1861 and 1918.
Dorota Burda-Fischer studied Polish language and literature at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; she received her PḣD. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, where she teaches Polish language and culture. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Polish literature and Polish–Jewish cultural and literary contacts.
Nathan Cohen is an associate professor at the Center for Yiddish Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His research focuses on east European Jewish cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on modern Yiddish literature. His book Books, Writers and Newspapers: The Jewish Cultural Center in Warsaw, 1918‒1942 was published in Hebrew in 2003 by the Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem.
Ofer Dynes is a doctoral student at the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies. His interests lie in the intersection of Jewish culture and political history, focusing on central and eastern Europe. He was a fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York, and is now a member of the Posen Society of Fellows. He has held visiting affiliations at Columbia University, the Jagiellonian University, the Hebrew University, and the Centre for Urban History in Lviv. [End Page 557]
Karolina Famulska-Ciesielska received her PḣD. in literary history at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. She is a freelance researcher. Her books include Polacy, Żydzi, Izraelczycy: Tożsamość w literaturze polskiej w Izraelu (Toruń, 2008) and, with Sławomir Jacek Żurek, Literatura polska w Izraelu: Leksykon (Kraków and Budapest, 2012).
Ellen Kellman researches and writes about modern Yiddish literature and literary history, specializing in the history of the Yiddish periodical press and publishing industry. Among her scholarly publications are 'Faint Praise: The Early Critical Reception of Joseph Opatoshu's In poylishe velder', in S. Koller, G. Estraikh, and M. Krutikov (eds.), Joseph Opatoshu: A Yiddish Writer between Europe and America (London, 2013); 'Uneasy Patronage: Bergelson's Years at Forverts (1922–1926)', in J. Sherman and G. Estraikh (eds.), David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism (London, 2007); and 'Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland', Polin, 16 (2003). She teaches Yiddish language and literature and modern Jewish literature in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.
Zuzanna Kołodziejska received her PḣD. with honours in the Department of Polish Language and Literature at the University of Warsaw in 2013. She also holds an MA in English from the same university. Her interests focus on nineteenth-century Polish Jewish literature and press. She has published her doctoral dissertation in book form: 'Izraelita' (1866‒1915): Znaczenie kulturowe i literackie czasopisma (Kraków, 2015). She...
