Publications

We are pleased to announce that the American publishing house Cornell University Press has just published an English translation of the book „Pod klątwą. Społeczny portret pogromu kieleckiego” (2018) by Prof. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir. The monograph has been translated by Ewa Wampuszyc and is published under the title “Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom”.

It is worth noting that the book by Prof. Tokarska-Bakir, after its publication, caused an international response and won several awards and nominations, including: Yad Vashem International Book Prize (2019), the Jan Długosz award for Poland’s best scientific publication (2019) as well as nominations for the NIKE Award (2019) and the Jerzy Giedroyc award (2019).

The translation is published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

The book can be ordered on the publisher’s website: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771484/cursed/#bookTabs=1

Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom, transl. by Ewa Wampuszyc, Cornell University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781501771484.

We recommend the online publication Searching for Identity: Personal Experiences and Methodological Reflections edited by dr Olha Tkachenko from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and dr Ayur Zhanayev from the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization at the University of Warsaw. Dr Marzena Maciulewicz from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences also contributed to the book.

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We are happy to announce the publication of a new book by Dr. Ewelina Drzewiecka: Юбилейно и модерно. Кирило-методиевският разказ през социализма в България. The monograph is an attempt to answer various questions, among others: about the relationship between the scientific and the party discourses on the narrative of the oeuvre of Saints Cyril and Methodius, which is crucial for Bulgarian cultural memory; about the (non)religious nature of their modern cult, as well as its role in the perspective of the so-called communist nationalism.

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