Joanna Michlic

Joanna Beata Michlic
Born
Łódź, Poland
OccupationHistorian
Academic background
EducationPhD (2000), University of London
ThesisEthnic 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 advisorsJohn Klier, Anthony D. Smith[1]
Academic work
Era
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Notable worksNeighbors 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).

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Dr Joanna Beata Michlic". Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. University College London.
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