Paweł Śpiewak (17 April 1951 – 30 March 2023) was a Polish sociologist, historian, author and politician. He was the Director of the
Jewish Historical Institute
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in
Warsaw
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.
Biography
Paweł Śpiewak was a Professor of Sociology at
Warsaw University
The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializat ...
. He was elected to the
Sejm
The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Poland.
The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the Polish People' ...
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
Collegium Invisibile
Collegium Invisibile is an Learned society, academic society founded in 1995 in Warsaw, Poland, Warsaw that affiliates outstanding Polish students in the humanities and science with distinguished scholars in accordance with the idea of a libera ...
.
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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See also
* Members of Polish Sejm 2005–2007
References
External links
Paweł Śpiewak - parliamentary page
- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.
1951 births
2023 deaths
Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007
Civic Platform politicians
20th-century Polish Jews
21st-century Polish Jews
21st-century Polish people
Polish sociologists
Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
Academic staff of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Fellows of Collegium Invisibile
Politicians from Warsaw
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