Piotr Jan Wróbel (born 1953) is a

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historian and expert specializing in

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and

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an history. His academic research revolves around the national minorities of Central and Eastern Europe with special focus on Polish-Jewish relations and the history of Polish Jewry since the

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. Wróbel is currently a

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in the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts and Science of the

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, as well as member of the Faculty at the

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at the

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in the University of Toronto. Piotr Wróbel received his Doctor of Philosophy degree ( PhD) at the

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, where he taught. He also taught at the

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in East Lansing, as well as at the

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. At present, Wróbel teaches history at the University of Toronto. He has been a visiting scholar at the

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, as well as at the

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; and, at the Institute for Polish–Jewish Studies at the

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. Wróbel has authored or co-authored seven books, and more than 75 articles published in Poland, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. He serves on the advisory board of ''Polin: A Journal of Polish–Jewish Studies''.

Selected publications

* ''Listopadowe dni-1918'', 1988, Instytut Wydawniczy P.A.X * ''Droga powrotna: niemiecki prawicowy ruch kombatancki po I wojnie światowej'', 1989, Książka i Wiedza * ''Kształtowanie siȩ białoruskiej świadomości narodowej a Polska'', 1990, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego * ''Zarys dziejów Żydów na ziemiach polskich w latach 1880-1918'', 1991, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego * ''Prezydenci i premierzy drugiej rzeczypospolitej'' (with A Chojnowski), 1992, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolínskich * ''The Jews of Galicia under Austrian-Polish Rule, 1869–1918'', 1994,

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* ''Double memory: Poles and Jews after the Holocaust'', 1997,

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* '' Historical Dictionary of Poland, 1945-1996''.

References

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Polish History and Konstanty Reynert Chair of History, Council for Support of Polish Studies at the University of TorontoProfessor Piotr Wróbel, Council for Support of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto
The Canadian Foundation for Polish Studies of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences. Price-Patterson Ltd. (contains a biography note) {{DEFAULTSORT:Wrobel, Piotr 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers University of Warsaw alumni University of Michigan faculty Michigan State University faculty University of California, Davis faculty Polish emigrants to Canada Living people 1953 births