Paweł Śpiewak (17 April 1951 – 30 March 2023) was a Polish sociologist, historian, author and politician. He was the Director of the

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Biography

Paweł Śpiewak was a Professor of Sociology at

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. He was elected to the

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on 25 September 2005 getting 18,403 votes in 19 Warsaw district, running as a candidate with the

Civic Platform The Civic Platform (, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a Centre-right politics, centre-right liberal conservative political party in Poland. Since ...

list. He did not seek reelection in 2007. Śpiewak was a Fellow of

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. In 2011, he was nominated as the Director of the Jewish Historical Institute by Bogdan Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Śpiewak was the son of nationally renowned writers Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986) and Jan Śpiewak (1908–1967). Śpiewak died on 30 March 2023, at the age of 71.Paweł Śpiewak, prominent Jewish-Polish sociologist and historian dies at 71
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