Böcker i Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics-serien

This last of three parts of the History of the Polish Intelligentsia deals with the period of numerical growth of the intelligentsia, growth of its self-consciousness and at the same time of growing struggles and rivalries of various political streams. It concludes with the moment when Poland regained the independence that had been lost in 1795.

This first of three parts of the History of the Polish Intelligentsia deals with the time from 1750 to 1831. It traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class, stresses the importance of the birth of bureaucratic institutions and analyses the results of the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.

The book aims to reconstruct and analyze the disputes over the Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates in Poland between 1985 and 2012. The analysis includes the course and dynamics of the debates and, most importantly, the panorama of opinions revealed in the process.

Brings together eighteen English language essays on the fringes, overlap, and tensions of memory and history that the author has published over the decades. This book displays some examples of his approaches to German 'Erfahrungsgeschichte' West and East, and to their roots in and beyond the Nazi period.

In aftermath of World War II, two migration streams entered Belgium: former allied soldiers from Poland and former Ostarbeiterinnen from Soviet Union. This book focuses on these people's attempts to give meaning to their war experiences in post-war life, and delineates processes they used to understand and articulate what they had been through.

A comparative study of the anti-Semitic excesses carried out by the local populations of Warsaw, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Kaunas in the early months of German occupation. The work looks into the incidents, the perpetrators, the German authorities, and the role these incidents played in the early stage of the "final solution".

Takes as its point of departure an enthusiasm for Baltic Sea region history which appeared in some European countries after fall of Iron Curtain. This book features emphasis on relation between historical narratives and political debates, makes it an interesting contribution to Baltic Sea region studies, and Central European historical studies.