%0 Journal Article
%T Michał Borwicz in Kraków from 1911 to 1939. Introduction to the Issue
%A Gąsiorowski, Stefan
%J Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/20843925SJ.19.009.12232
%N Volume 17
%P 95-104
%K Michał Borwicz, Maksymilian Boruchowicz, Kraków, literature, Jagiellonian University, Nazism, novel
%@ 1733-5760
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/scripta-judaica-cracoviensia/artykul/michal-borwicz-in-krakow-from-1911-to-1939-introduction-to-the-issue
%X 
	This article discusses the early life of Maksymilian Boruchowicz (1911–1987), a Jewish writer, publicist, and literary critic known in interwar Kraków, who changed his name to Michał Borwicz after the Second World War. Biographical information on his life before the outbreak of the war focuses mainly on his studies of Polish language and literature at the Jagiellonian University, where he was actively involved in student literary and cultural circles, as well as political journalism. During his studies and immediately thereafter, Borwicz published prolifically in various magazines and literary journals, and before the war published the novel Miłość i rasa (Love and Race), which was received positively by literary critics.

	* This article was written based on a paper presented at “New Perspectives in Jewish Historiography,” an academic conference held in Kraków on 2 March 2017 celebrating the publication of the 29th volume of Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry.