Annamaria Orla-Bukowska

Annamaria Orla-Bukowska

Cover of simultaneous Polish and English edition of Rethinking Poles and Jews titled Polacy i Żydzi by Annamaria Orla-Bukowska with Prof. Robert D. Cherry
Occupation Historian, author
Notable works Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future

Dr. Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is a social anthropologist at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków; and the Professor/Lecturer at the Center for Social Studies / Graduate School for Social Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her general field of research is genocide and its social consequences as well as majority-minority relations. Orla-Bukowska is a 2004 Yad Vashem Fellow.[1][2][3][4]

Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is the co-author of Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future, the 2007 book produced in collaboration with Professor Robert Cherry of Brooklyn College and published in English as well as in Polish under the title Polacy i Żydzi – kwestia otwarta (pictured). It consists of a series of essays devoted to the subject of the Holocaust in Poland;[5] one of the first books to address the negative assumptions and anti-Polish bias in the Holocaust literature.[6][7] The book was described by Michael C. Steinlauf as "a ray of light amidst the acrimonious and generally uninformed polemics", and by Deborah Lipstadt as "a series of essays that pierce the stereotypes which have obscured historical reality".[5]

Selected works

Notes and references

  1. "The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies". The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology – Volume 9. 2003. ISBN 9789004131149. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  2. "Orla-Bukowska, Annamaria – scholar details". European Association for Jewish Studies, Yarnton, United Kingdom. 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  3. "Professor Annamaria Orla-Bukowska". CSS/SNS. Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw. 2006. Archived from the original (Internet Archive) on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  4. "Inauthor: Annamaria Orla-Bukowska". Google Books. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  5. 1 2 Reviews and Book Description of Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future. Amazon.com Books. Accessed 7 March 2012.
  6. Review of Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future. Polish Cultural Institute, New York. March 2012.
  7. Review of Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future. Polonia Portal. Polish American Congress, 3 January 2008.
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