Ethnic nationalism and the myth of the threatening other: The case of Poland and perceptions of its Jewish minority from the late nineteenth century to the modern period
Academic advisors
John Klier, Anthony D. Smith[1]
Academic work
Era
The Holocaust in Poland
1939–1945 Polish–Jewish relations
Institutions
University College London
Notable works
Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (co-editor, 2003)
Website
"Dr Joanna Beata Michlic", University College London.
Joanna Beata Michlic is a Polish social and cultural historian specializing in Polish-Jewish history and the Holocaust in Poland. An honorary senior research associate at the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at University College London (UCL),[2] she focuses in particular on the collective memory of traumatic events, particularly as it relates to gender and childhood.[3]
Michlic is the author and editor of several books on Jewish-Polish relations and Jewish history, including Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (edited with Antony Polonsky, 2003); Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (2006); and Jewish Families in Europe, 1939–Present: History, Representation, and Memory (2017).
^Michlic, Joanna Beata (2000). "Ethnic nationalism and the myth of the threatening other: The case of Poland and perceptions of its Jewish minority from the late nineteenth century to the modern period". Doctoral thesis, University of London, p. 3.
^"Dr Joanna Beata Michlic". Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. University College London.
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Joanna Beata Michlic is a Polish social and cultural historian specializing in Polish-Jewish history and the Holocaust in Poland. An honorary senior research...
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described the book as meticulous and well researched. In contrast, JoannaMichlic in her review writes that the book presents "intellectually and morally...
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of the Holocaust in which PiS casts Poles and Jews as equal victims. JoannaMichlic states that "according to PiS’s histor[y] policy, the historian can...
Studies on Modern Antisemitism, 1870-1933/39. Walter de Gruyter, 1993. Joanna B. Michlic. Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the...
of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe. Ed. John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. x, 778pp. Notes. Index...
Jews by making her apartment available as a hiding place. According to JoannaMichlic, Solska was known for offering help when all other avenues for rescue...
historical background and lacking a map that many readers would find useful. JoannaMichlic reviewed the Polish edition, praising it as "a first-class journalistic...
ZWZ around 1941 and finally joining Armia Krajowa around fall 1943. Michlic, Joanna Beata (2006). Poland's threatening other: The image of the Jew from...
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in the discourse about Jews." He was criticized by Piotr Wróbel and JoannaMichlic, who believes him to represent the ethnonationalist trend in historiography...
1922". Culture.pl. Adam Mickiewicz Institute. Retrieved 2014-09-17. Joanna B. Michlic (1 December 2006). Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew...
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of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Slovakia.". In Himka, John-Paul; Michlic, Joanna Beata (eds.). Bringing the Dark Past to Light. The Reception of the...
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