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

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

in Kraków; and the Professor/Lecturer at the Center for Social Studies / Graduate School for Social Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her general field of research is genocide and its social consequences as well as majority–minority relations. Orla-Bukowska is a 2004 Yad Vashem 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 Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...

and published in English as well as in

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

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 Polonophobia, also referred to as anti-Polonism, ( pl, Antypolonizm), and anti-Polish sentiment are terms for negative attitudes, prejudices, and actions against Poles as an ethnic group, Poland as their country, and their culture. These incl ...

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 Michael C. Steinlauf is an Associate Professor of History at Gratz College, Pennsylvania. Steinlauf teaches Jewish history, theatre and culture in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations.

as "a ray of light amidst the acrimonious and generally uninformed polemics" and by Deborah Lipstadt 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 Robert D. Cherry (born 1944) is an American academic who is professor emeritus at Brooklyn College, with a Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University received in 1968. Before retiring, he was Broeklundian Professor at Brooklyn College. A ...

, ''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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