Historian, Jewish studies, Polish studies
e-mail: jolanta.kruszniewska@ispan.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0667-7990
Academia.edu: https://pan-pl.academia.edu/JolantaKruszniewska
Research interests
- The process of Jewish assimilation in Poland; methodology in Jewish Studies; the history of the term “assimilation” and its usage in the academic discourse.
- Jewish periodicals published in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew in Galicia in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th.
- Jewish communities in local history (in particular in Galicia).
- Transcription and translation hebrew tombstones inscriptions.
Membership in scientific bodies
- Since 2013 – member of Polskie Towarzystwo Studiów Żydowskich (the Polish Assosiation of Jewish Studies)
- Since 2024 – member of the European Associacion for Jewish Studies
Scholarships
- XI 2019 – XI 2021 – Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Center of Science, Poland) – scholarship in the research project: “Mosaic Religion as a Subject of Teaching in Galicia: Teaching Programs, Books and Teachers”, supervised by dr Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska (Sonata 14, 2018/31/D/HS3/03604).
- 2014/15 – Erasmus+ Graduate Program, Department of Jewish Studies, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, the University of Vienna.
- III – V 2013 – Graduate Research Fellowship in the History and Culture of Polish Jews, Tel Aviv University.
Research projects
- 2024–2027 – Research project: “Faces of smuggling in the Polish-Slovak borderland between 1918 and 1949”, supervised by dr Karolina Panz (Sonata 19, 2023/51/D/HS3/01105); post-doc.
Publications
- Kruszniewska, J. (2018). “Progress, Nationalisation, Assimilation…” The Assimilation Discourse in the Polish-Jewish Periodical “Ojczyzna” (1881–1892), in: Polish Jews in the eyes of Historians. Kaźmierczyk, A. Maślak-Maciejewska (Eds). Cracow, pp. 135–154. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. (in Polish)
- Kruszniewska, J. (2022). Transparent Presence? Jewish-Lemko Relations in Grybów Area. A Preliminary Research. Rocznik Ruskiej Bursy, 18, pp. 101–118. (in Polish)
- Kruszniewska, J. (2012). The Jewish Question in Wiadomości Literackie (Literary News, 1924–1939). Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, 9, p. 137–158.
- Kruszniewska, J., Łagodzińska-Pietras, A. (2019). The new Polish-language Publications about Jewish Periodicals Issued in the Polish Lands. Review of Current Research. Studia Judaica, 1 (43), pp. 143–154. (in Polish)
- Kruszniewska, J. (2022). “And their memory shall not cease among their descendants” (Esth. 9: 28). The Jewish Cemetery in Mszana Dolna. Sztetl Mszana Dolna. (Polish, English)