Reviews

Author: 
Eliyana R. Adler
Reviewer: 
Joanna Sliwa

Sliwa on Adler, 'Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union'

Eliyana R. Adler. Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps, table. x + 433 pp. $51.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98802-6.

Reviewed by Joanna Sliwa (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)) Published on H-Poland (March, 2023) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author: 
Molly Pucci
Reviewer: 
Robert E. Blobaum

Blobaum on Pucci, 'Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe'

Molly Pucci. Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe. Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. xiv + 378 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-24257-7

Author: 
Jadwiga Biskupska
Reviewer: 
Jesse Kauffman

Kauffman on Biskupska, 'Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation'

Jadwiga Biskupska. Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Illustrations, maps. 320 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51558-7.

Reviewed by Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan University) Published on H-Poland (November, 2022) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author: 
Paweł Markiewicz
Reviewer: 
Jadwiga Biskupska

Biskupska on Markiewicz, 'Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government during World War II'

Paweł Markiewicz. Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government during World War II. Central European Studies Series. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2021. Maps. 366 pp. $59.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-61249-681-8; $59.99 (pdf), ISBN 978-1-61249-682-5; $59.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61249-680-1; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61249-679-5.

Author: 
Joanna Sliwa
Reviewer: 
Rachel Rothstein

Rothstein on Sliwa, 'Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust'

Joanna Sliwa. Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 218 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-978822-93-1; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-978822-94-8

Author: 
Maria Ferenc
Reviewer: 
Joanna Sliwa

Sliwa on Ferenc, '"Każdy pyta, co z nami będzie": Mieszkańcy getta warszawskiego wobec wiadomości o wojnie i Zagładzie'

Maria Ferenc. "Każdy pyta, co z nami będzie": Mieszkańcy getta warszawskiego wobec wiadomości o wojnie i Zagładzie. Warsaw: Zydowski Instytut Historyczny, 2021. 528 pp. 49,00 PLN (paper), ISBN 978-83-66485-48-8.

Reviewed by Joanna Sliwa (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)) Published on H-Poland (July, 2022) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author: 
Alexander Watson
Reviewer: 
Jadwiga Biskupska

Biskupska on Watson, 'The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl'

Alexander Watson. The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl. London: Allen Lane, 2019. Illustrations. xxii + 346 pp. $26.79 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-241-30906-3

Reviewed by Jadwiga Biskupska (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-Poland (May, 2022) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author: 
Elżbieta Janicka, Tomasz Żukowski
Reviewer: 
Joanna Sliwa

Sliwa on Janicka and Żukowski, 'Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives'

Elżbieta Janicka, Tomasz Żukowski. Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. ix + 270 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-79363-669-0.

Reviewed by Joanna Sliwa (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)) Published on H-Poland (May, 2022) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author: 
Jonathan Huener
Reviewer: 
Jadwiga Biskupska

Biskupska on Huener, 'The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation: The Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945'

Jonathan Huener. The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation: The Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 374 pp. $41.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-253-05406-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-05402-9; $42.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-05404-3.

Reviewed by Jadwiga Biskupska (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-Poland (March, 2022) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author: 
Lech Mróz
Reviewer: 
Matt Koval

Koval on Mróz, 'Roma-Gypsy Presence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: 15th-18th centuries'

Lech Mróz. Roma-Gypsy Presence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: 15th-18th centuries. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2015. Illustrations. 322 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-615505351-1.

Reviewed by Matt Koval (Valencia College, West Campus) Published on H-Poland (February, 2022) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

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