Algeria, the cat speaks: And what if the rabbi’s cat was Ashkenazi?

Paying tribute to Joann Sfar's comic strip The Rabbi's Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin), Ewa Tartakowsky takes the opportunity to question certain "Ashkenazi-centric" prejudices. Isn't...

By Ewa Tartakowsky

When Wikipedia Distorts the Holocaust. Interview with Shira Klein and Jan Grabowski.

Historians Shira Klein and Jan Grabowski have published an important article on the distortions of the history of the Holocaust - particularly in Poland -...

By Ewa Tartakowsky

Jewishness and Nationalism: the Polish kaleidoscope. An interview with Geneviève Zubrzycki

In Poland, the traditional conception of the nation is based on the idea that Polishness is inherently linked to Catholicism. In her latest book, sociologist...

By Ewa Tartakowsky

The “Polish Righteous Among the Nations” in Markowa (Second and Final Part)

Last week, Ewa Tartakowsky told us about the conditions under which a school visit like the one to the "Museum of the Poles Who Saved...

By Ewa Tartakowsky

The Polish “Righteous Among the Nations” in Markowa (Part One)

A group of students enrolled in a course on the Polish Righteous Among Nations went to Markowa, in the Subcarpathian region, to visit the "Museum...

By Ewa Tartakowsky