COOPERATORS
Jakubczak Aleksandra
PhD awarded (date and institution):
18 May 2023, Columbia University in New York
Specialization:
19th and 20th century East European history; gender and women’s history; economic history; social history; Jewish Studies; migrations and transnationalism
Department/Section:
Department of the Social History of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Employment:
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Awards:
- [2023] Winner of Shepard Bancroft Clough Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in European History, Columbia University.
- [2022] Winner of the New Directions in Jewish Studies Lectureship organized by University of California Davis and awarded to the most promising young scholars in Jewish Studies.
- [2021] Finalist of the Chone Shmeruk and Gierowski Award for the best books in Polish Jewish Studies, awarded by the Jagiellonian University.
- [2018] Stephen Weinrib Award for the best doctoral students in Jewish Studies awarded by the Center for Jewish Studies, Columbia University.
Membership:
- European Association for Jewish Studies
- (American) Association for Jewish Studies
- (American) Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
Selected publications:
- “Aguny i “białe niewolnice”. Polskie Żydówki a reforma prawa małżeńskiego w międzywojennej Polsce”, in: Na marginesie dziejów. Studia z polsko-żydowskiej historii społecznej: kobiety, młodzież, dzieci, ed. Anna Landau-Czajka, IH PAN, Warsaw, 2023, pp. 91–109.
- Pogrom domów publicznych. Źródła do dziejów Żydów na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku (do 1939 roku), Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw, 2022.
- Polacy, Żydzi i mit handlu kobietami, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw, 2020.
- „‘Protecting the Jewish Daughters‘: Mass Migration, Trafficking, and the Crisis of Traditional Jewish Society, the 1880s–1914“, Gal-Ed Journal: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry, vol. 26 (2021), pp. 15–39.
- „Pogrom alfonsów jako eskalacja konfliktu między członkami półświatka a robotnikami“, Przegląd Historyczny (2018), pp. 185–202.
Participation in research projects and grants:
- [2023–2026] Chief of the research project „“Yesterday’s victims of war are today’s victims of unemployment”: Polish Jewish women’s experiences of the Great War and the Great Economic Crisis in the interwar period.” Funded by Preludium Grant, National Center for Science (NCN).
- [2020–2024] Member of research team “Polish Jews in Latin America”, Department of Iberian and Iberoamerican Studies, University of Warsaw.
- [2019] Member of interdisciplinary project “Tracking the Traffic” led by Elianna Renner (University of Bremen, Germany).
- [2019] Member of research project “Footprints. Jewish Books Through Time and Place,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
- [2015–2019] Chief of the research project “Poles and Jews in the Fight Against Trafficking of Women in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Polish lands in comparative perspective.” Funded by Diamond Grant, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
