While emigration of the bulk of German-speaking Jews merged into the paradigmatic of the refugee phenomenon, wartime refugeedom of Polish Jews is perceived as a delayed and marginal attempt to save one’s life. The possible reasons for these interpretative differences are analysed in the article by the Unlikely Refuge? member […]
Monthly Archives: January 2021
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On 14 January 2021, Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) and Katharina Friedla were invited to present their book “Syberiada Żydów polskich” at a seminar organized by the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. Literature often describes the experience of refugees as an ‘odyssey’. Lidia Zessin-Jurek and Katharina Friedla together […]
The Unlikely Refuge? member Francesca Rolandi will participate in the CAS SEE Weekly Seminar on Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 10 am. The seminar will be dedicated to the presentation of a new book titled Fiume Crisis by Dominique Kirchner Reill (University of Miami). Francesca Rolandi will be involved in […]
“Saved” in the East, or “Survivors” of the East? Even today there is still a disagreement on how we should perceive Jewish refugees from Poland, who were deported by Stalin to Siberia. Only now the memory of their experience and loss comes out of the great shadow cast by the […]