In 2026, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry celebrates its 40th anniversary—four decades of publishing authoritative, interdisciplinary research on all aspects of the history, culture, and experience of Polish Jewry. Founded in 1986 by the Institute for Polish–Jewish Studies and published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Polin has become a leading forum for historians, literary scholars, linguists, sociologists, art historians, and researchers across the humanities and social sciences.
To mark this milestone, the editors have curated an anniversary selection of journal articles that will be free to read for the next 12 months. Spanning early modern political life, nineteenth-century community transformations, interwar religious and cultural movements, Holocaust history, and postwar memory and reconstruction, these articles highlight the richness and breadth of Polin’s contribution to the field.
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Editor Selected Articles from the Polin Archive
Free to read until the end of 2026.
General
- Jewish Theatre in Poland: An Overview, by Michael Steinlauf, Volume 16.
- Between Jews and Their Neighbors: Isolation, Confrontation and Influence in Eastern Europe, by Israel Bartal and Scott Ury, Volume 24.
The Early Modern Period
- Jewish Delegates at the Noble Sejm and Sejmiki between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, by Anna Michałowska-Mycielska, Volume 34.
- Reform and Exclusion: Concepts for the Reform of the Jewish Community during the declining years of the Polish Englightenment, by Marcin Wodziński, Volume 24.
The Nineteenth Century
- ‘Masters of Their Own Offerings No More’: Jewish perceptions of the transformation of Jewish self-government in the Kingdom of Poland, by François Guesnet, Volume 34.
- Forthcoming in January 2026: Marriage as Froyen-Handel: Jewish Marital Practices in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, by Alexandra Jakubczak, Volume 38.
The Early Twentieth Century including the Interwar Period, but excluding the Holocaust
- Hasidic Yeshivot in Interwar Poland, by Shaul Stampfer, Volume 11.
- Zionism in Poland, Poland in Zionism, by Anna Landau-Czajka, Volume 35.
The Holocaust
- Rites of Violence? The Pogroms of Summer 1941, by Kai Struve, Volume 24.
- Voices of Soviet Jewish Children Documenting the Second World War,
by Anna Shternshis, Volume 36.
The Postwar Period
- The Hate Campaign of March 1968: How Did It Become Anti-Jewish?
By Dariusz Stola, Volume 21. - The Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, 1944–47, by Natalia Aleksiun, Volume 20.
Submit your work to Polin
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry is edited by its co-chairs and guest editors for individual volumes. Forthcoming volume topics appear in each volume’s prelims, and scholars may contact the co-chairs with proposals. Further articles are invited after consultation between all the editors of each volume. The journal welcomes the submission of articles, not only in English but also in other languages, including Polish, Hebrew, and Russian, which will be translated if accepted.
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Also of interest: Polin Volume 37: Jews in Polish & German Lands.
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