Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is a social anthropologist at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University in

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; and the Professor/Lecturer at the Center for Social Studies / Graduate School for Social Research of the

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. Her general field of research is genocide and its social consequences as well as majority–minority relations. Orla-Bukowska is a 2004

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Fellow.

''Rethinking Poles and Jews''

Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is the co-author of ''Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future'', the 2007 book produced in collaboration with Robert Cherry of Brooklyn College and published in

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as well as in

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under the title ''Polacy i Żydzi – kwestia otwarta (pictured)''. It consists of a series of essays devoted to the subject of

the Holocaust in Poland The Holocaust in Poland was part of the European-wide Holocaust organized by Nazi Germany and took place in German-occupied Poland. During the genocide, three million Polish Jews were murdered, half of all Jews murdered during the Holocaust. ...

; one of the first books to address the negative assumptions and anti-Polish bias in the Holocaust literature. Review of ''Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future''.
Polish Cultural Institute, New York. March 2012. Review of ''Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future''.
Polonia Portal. Polish American Congress, 3 January 2008. The book was described by Michael C. Steinlauf as "a ray of light amidst the acrimonious and generally uninformed polemics" and by

Deborah Lipstadt Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian, best known as author of the books '' Denying the Holocaust'' (1993), ''History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier'' (2005), ''The Eichmann Trial'' (2011), and ...

as "a series of essays that pierce the stereotypes which have obscured historical reality".

Selected works

* Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Grażyna Skąpska; "The moral fabric in contemporary societies", ''Institut international de sociologie'', Volume 2001. World Congress, 2003. 379 pages *Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Robert D. Cherry, ''Rethinking Poles and Jews: troubled past, brighter future'', 2007. 230 pages, Holocaust Studies *Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Robert Cherry, ''Polacy i Zydzi: Kwestia Otwarta.'' Warsaw: ''Wiez.'' Polish edition of ''Rethinking Poles and Jews'', 2009 *Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Krzysztof Gorlach, Zygmunt Seręga, ''Family farming in the contemporary world: East-West comparisons'', 1995. 187 pages *Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, ''Book of abstracts: crossing categorical boundaries'', Biennial EASA Conference, ''European Association of Social Anthropologists'' – 2000. 306 pages

Notes and references

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