Ewa Węgrzyn
Studia Judaica, Issue 2 (50), 2022, pp. 370 - 375
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.22.020.17487Ewa Węgrzyn
Studia Judaica, Issue 2 (52), 2023, pp. 495 - 498
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.23.025.18951Ewa Węgrzyn
Studia Judaica, Issue 2 (50), 2022, pp. 291 - 307
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.22.012.17182The article describes the diplomatic mission to Poland of the Israeli represent tive Katriel Katz in 1956–1958. Special attention is given to the results of the political activity of this diplomat in Warsaw, in particular to the issue concerning the aliyah of Polish Jews to Israel in this period. A very important part of the article focuses on the case of Yaakov Barmore, who was regarded by Polish authorities as persona non grata and was expelled from Poland in 1958.
Ewa Węgrzyn
Studia Judaica, Issue 2 (46), 2020, pp. 452 - 455
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.20.025.13668Ewa Węgrzyn
Studia Judaica, Issue 2 (46), 2020, pp. 437 - 455
Żydowski naturalista potrzebny od zaraz! Steven Nadler, Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die, Princeton University Press, Princeton–Oxford 2020, ss. 234. (Adam Lipszyc)
Żydowski samorząd ziemski w Koronie (XVII–XVIII wiek). Źródła, oprac. Adam Kaźmierczyk i Przemysław Zarubin, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2019, ss. 679. (Marcin Wodziński)
Magda Sara Szwabowicz, Hebrajskie życie literackie w międzywojennej Polsce, Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badań Literackich PAN, Warszawa 2019, ss. 422. (Anna Piątek)
Halina Hila Marcinkowska, Wieczni tułacze. Powojenna emigracja polskich Żydów, Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2019, ss. 424. (Ewa Węgrzyn)
Ewa Węgrzyn
Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, Volume 16, 2018, pp. 123 - 131
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925SJ.18.009.10823In my paper entitled Seeking a return to Poland. The case of “Gomulka Aliyah” immigrants in Israel (1956–1960) I describe the emigration of Polish citizens of Jewish origin to Israel in the second half of the 1950s. From October 1956, when Wladyslaw Gomulka came into power in Poland, it became possible for Polish Jews to relocate in to Israel. Leaving Poland was not obligatory for Jews in that period, but a rise in anti-Semitism and disappointment with the communist regime in Poland led a number of Polish citizens of Jewish origin to make the decision to emigrate. In the period of 1956 to 1960 approximately 50,000 Jews went to Israel. However, after few months of living in the New Homeland, some of the new immigrants from Poland were seeking to return. Difficult living conditions, an unfamiliar language, and unemployment led Polish Jews to request repatriation. That was in most of the cases impossible, as most of them had given up on Polish citizenship while immigrating to Israel.