Approximately eighty percent of the world’s Jews have a connection to Eastern Europe, and all of them once lived in a unique country called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
We joined Zachary Mazur, Senior Historian at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, who discussed the key question of why Jews settled in Eastern Europe and what their lives looked like there. While discussing the larger historical narrative, he focused on the stories of those living in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to paint a picture of Jewish life before the Great Migration that began in the 1880s.
This virtual seminar incorporated POLIN’s Core Exhibition, a journey through 1000 years of the history of Jews in Poland from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Zachary Mazur earned his PhD at Yale University and is currently a Senior Historian at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and a lecturer at the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests include modern Eastern and Central Europe, national identity, law, and economics. You can find his list of publications here.
We joined Zachary Mazur, Senior Historian at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, who discussed the key question of why Jews settled in Eastern Europe and what their lives looked like there. While discussing the larger historical narrative, he focused on the stories of those living in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to paint a picture of Jewish life before the Great Migration that began in the 1880s.
This virtual seminar incorporated POLIN’s Core Exhibition, a journey through 1000 years of the history of Jews in Poland from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Zachary Mazur earned his PhD at Yale University and is currently a Senior Historian at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and a lecturer at the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests include modern Eastern and Central Europe, national identity, law, and economics. You can find his list of publications here.
The handout
| Jewish life in Poland-Lithuania |
The recorded presentation
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