XI Konferencja Naukowa „Żydzi wschodniej Polski”: rzecz o wpływie polityki. Obserwacje

Abstract

The author briefly presents the proceedings of the XI Academic Conference in the series “Jews of Eastern Poland” devoted to the specific topic of “Jews of Eastern Europe and Politics. Biographies – Ideas – Cultural Texts”, held in Bialystok on 16 May 2022. The project has been coordinated since 2011 by the University of Białystok (Department of Philological Research “East – West” and Książnica Podlaska. The conference took place in dramatic historical circumstances. In 2020, due to the pandemic, the proceedings were held in absentia and in 2021 in hybrid mode. In 2022, a dozen scholars gathered at Książnica Podlaska and connected online with other participants of the Conference. Twenty researchers from Poland, Germany (Berlin) and Ukraine (Odessa Literature Museum) took part. Discussions were held in four 5-person panels. It is worth to point out the wide thematic range of the papers, which this year included issues from the field of politics, culture, literature, press and photography.