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She is a social and cultural historian, and founder and Director of HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. She teaches history at Bristol University. She received her doctorate and her master's degree in modern European and Jewish history from University of London, and her bachelor's degree in Slavonic studies at the University of Lodz, Poland. Until December 2008, she was associate professor of history and chair of the Holocaust and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. The focus of her research is on the social and cultural history of eastern European Jews, with a special emphasis on childhood experiences and individual and collective memories of the Holocaust. Her major publications include Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (2004; co-edited with Antony Polonsky), Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, and Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, co-edited with John-Paul Himka (Lincoln, NUP, 2012), and Jewish Family, 1939-Present: History, Memory and Representation (forthcoming January 2017, NEUP) She is a recipient of many prestigious academic awards and fellowships, among others the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Haifa University, Spring Semester 2013/2014, Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust, Holocaust Educational Trust of Northwestern University, 2015/2016, a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Warsaw, June–July 2016, and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Collective violence, Holocaust and Genocide, London, 2016-2018. | She is a social and cultural historian, and founder and Director of HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. She teaches history at Bristol University. She received her doctorate and her master's degree in modern European and Jewish history from University of London, and her bachelor's degree in Slavonic studies at the University of Lodz, Poland. Until December 2008, she was associate professor of history and chair of the Holocaust and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. The focus of her research is on the social and cultural history of eastern European Jews, with a special emphasis on childhood experiences and individual and collective memories of the Holocaust. Her major publications include Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (2004; co-edited with Antony Polonsky), Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, and Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, co-edited with John-Paul Himka (Lincoln, NUP, 2012), and Jewish Family, 1939-Present: History, Memory and Representation (forthcoming January 2017, NEUP) She is a recipient of many prestigious academic awards and fellowships, among others the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Haifa University, Spring Semester 2013/2014, Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust, Holocaust Educational Trust of Northwestern University, 2015/2016, a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Warsaw, June–July 2016, and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Collective violence, Holocaust and Genocide, London, 2016-2018. | ||
==Controversy and academic conflict== | |||
⚫ | In 2005, ] published a monograph, ''The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, and After''. When Chodakiewicz’s work was favorably reviewed by ] in the British journal |
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⚫ | In 2005, ] published a monograph, ''The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, and After''. When Chodakiewicz’s work was favorably reviewed by ] in the British journal ‘']'', Polonsky and ] wrote a letter, which ''History'' published, criticizing both Chodakiewicz’s book and Stachura’s review.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Polonsky|first=Antony|author2=Michlik, Joanna|title=Letter to the Editor|journal=History|date=January 2008|volume=93|issue=309|pages=154–158||doi=10.1111/j.1468-229x.2008.00415.x}}</ref> Stachura sought to reply to the letter of Polonsky and Michlic, and after ''History'' declined to publish his response, he posted it on the website of ''{{ill|Glaukopis|pl|Glaukopis}}'' journal. In his reply he noted that "both Polonsky and Michlic are perceived in certain academic circles as being uncompromising advocates of a tendentious interpretation of Polish-Jewish relations in the modern era".<ref name="Stachura2008">{{cite journal|last=Stachura |first=Peter |title=Jedwabne: A Reply to Antony Polonsky & Joanna Michlic |date=6 February 2008 |url=http://glaukopis.pl/pdf/czytelnia/JedwabneReplyToAntonyPolonsky.pdf |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425142848/http://glaukopis.pl/pdf/czytelnia/JedwabneReplyToAntonyPolonsky.pdf |archivedate=25 April 2012 }}</ref> | ||
==Selected works== | ==Selected works== |
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Joanna B. Michlic was a professor of Polish-Jewish history at Lehigh University, where she served as an associate professor in history and chair of Holocaust and Ethical Values Studies. Michlic received her bachelor's degree from the University of Łódź, and her master's degree from the University of London.
In 2008, Michlic joined the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University.
In 2013, she joined the faculty of Bristol University. She is a social and cultural historian, and founder and Director of HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. She teaches history at Bristol University. She received her doctorate and her master's degree in modern European and Jewish history from University of London, and her bachelor's degree in Slavonic studies at the University of Lodz, Poland. Until December 2008, she was associate professor of history and chair of the Holocaust and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. The focus of her research is on the social and cultural history of eastern European Jews, with a special emphasis on childhood experiences and individual and collective memories of the Holocaust. Her major publications include Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (2004; co-edited with Antony Polonsky), Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, and Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, co-edited with John-Paul Himka (Lincoln, NUP, 2012), and Jewish Family, 1939-Present: History, Memory and Representation (forthcoming January 2017, NEUP) She is a recipient of many prestigious academic awards and fellowships, among others the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Haifa University, Spring Semester 2013/2014, Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust, Holocaust Educational Trust of Northwestern University, 2015/2016, a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Warsaw, June–July 2016, and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Collective violence, Holocaust and Genocide, London, 2016-2018.
Controversy and academic conflict
In 2005, Marek Chodakiewicz published a monograph, The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, and After. When Chodakiewicz’s work was favorably reviewed by Peter Stachura in the British journal ‘'History, Polonsky and Joanna Michlic wrote a letter, which History published, criticizing both Chodakiewicz’s book and Stachura’s review. Stachura sought to reply to the letter of Polonsky and Michlic, and after History declined to publish his response, he posted it on the website of Glaukopis journal. In his reply he noted that "both Polonsky and Michlic are perceived in certain academic circles as being uncompromising advocates of a tendentious interpretation of Polish-Jewish relations in the modern era".
Selected works
- Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, 2006, ISBN 0-8032-3240-3
- Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (with Antony Polonsky), 2003, ISBN 0-691-11306-8
- The Polish Debate about the Jedwabne Massacre
- Bringing the Dark Past to Light. The Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, 2013, co-edited with John-Paul Himka, Nebraska University Press
References
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- Polonsky, Antony; Michlik, Joanna (January 2008). "Letter to the Editor". History. 93 (309): 154–158. doi:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2008.00415.x.
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