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2010-09-14

The Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Prize awarded to Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov

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The award ceremony of Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Prize will be held on 15 September at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. This year’s recipient is writer – Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, for her popularization of the knowledge of the history of Polish Jews.

The Award was established in 1992 by Jan Karski, whereas YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York was entrusted with its administration. The Prize is awarded annually to the authors of published works documenting the Jewish contribution to Polish culture.

Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov is an author of two monographs: "Strategie przetrwania: Żydzi po aryjskiej stronie Warszawy" (“Survival Strategies: Jews on the Aryan Side in Warsaw”, 2004) which received awards from the Aleksander Gieysztor Foundation and the Polish Ministry of National Education, and "Obywatel Jidyszlandu: rzecz o żydowskich komunistach w Polsce" (“Citizen of the Yiddishland: About the Jewish Communists in Poland”, 2009). The second monograph describes the life and political activity of a poet and a communist activist Dawid Sfard. Background to the story is a description of life of Jewish community in Poland in the period between 1930-1968. Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov is also the author of essays dealing with Jewish history and culture in Poland prior to 1968, as well as Yiddish translator.

The winner of the Award in 2010 was chosen by the Award Committee, whose members are Prof. Jerzy Tomaszewski, Prof. Feliks Tych, Dr Eleonora Bergman (director, Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw), Dr Jonathan Brent (director, YIVO Institute), and Marek Web (YIVO Institute). In recent years the laureates of the Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award were among others: Jerzy Ficowski, Henryk Grynberg, Hanna Krall, Stanisław Musiał, Joachim Russek, Joanna Tokarska- Bakir.

 

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