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 The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the l ...

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He is the author and editor focused on studies of Jewish popular culture in Poland. Books: "Michael C. Steinlauf", 2011, Amazon.com
/ref> His work has been translated into Polish, Hebrew, German and Italian. He is the senior historical advisor and member of the planning committee of the

Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews ( pl, Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich) is a museum on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. The Hebrew word ''Polin'' in the museum's English name means either "Poland" or "rest here" and relates to a ...

opened in Warsaw, and the Director of Poland's branch of USHMM. Dr Michael C. Steinlauf at the ''Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich'' Official Website

Publications

* "Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage." ''American Jewish History'', July 31, 2005 * ''Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture in Poland and Its Afterlife.'' Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry (16), Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. . 628 pages * ''Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust.'' Syracuse University Press, 1997. . 189 pages. * "Poland." In: David S. Wyman, Charles H. Rosenzveig. ''The World Reacts to the Holocaust.'' The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. . Between pages 81 and 155 * "Beyond the evil empire: Freedom to remember or freedom to forget?" ''Sol Feinstone'', 1991

Notes and references

American historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Historians of the Holocaust in Poland {{US-historian-stub