VIII. and IX. Jews and Muslims in Poland
Section outline
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An academic book edited by prof. Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska [CC BY-SA 3.0]
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Please read the fragment of the academic paper on the Islamophobia in Poland and think about how it differs from the similar trends in the Western European states.
Monika Bobako, Semi-peripheral Islamophobias: the political diversity of anti-Muslim discourses in Poland, "Patterns of Prejudice", 2018, Vol. 52, No. 5, 448–460, https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2018.1490112.
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Couple of links and files to the websites of and about minorities in Poland.
Muslims:
Muslim Religious Union in Poland (MZR) - in Polish
Muslim League in Poland (LM) - in Polish
What does a Pole think when they hear 'Muslim' - interview with Konrad Pedziwiatr, PhD
Attitude to Islam and Muslims (2015) - a poll by the Polish Centre for Public Opinion Research (CBOS)
Imaginary Muslims: How the Polish right frames Islam - a research article at brookings.edu
The Muslim Community in Poland Today - article from the portal co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
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Here is a quiz summing up the class on Muslims in Poland. The questions are based on the video class and fragment of the article on the diversity of Polish Islamophobia. You can consider it a warm-up before the final exam.
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Please read the paper and reflect on the main driver of the Jewish identity formation in contemporary Poland.
K. Gebert, Revival? Rebirth? Renaissance? What happened to Polish Jews over the last four decades? Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 2020 .
S. Krajewski (2023) The concept of de-assimilation: the example of Jews in Poland. Contemporary Jewry 43: 733–758
Additional reading
A. Grabski, P. Grudka P (2023). Poland after the Second World War, 1944–2020. In Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present edited by François Guesnet and Jerzy Tomaszewski: 556-576.
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This is a multiple-choice quiz, please note that more than one answer may be correct.