Jacek Leociak

Jacek Leociak (born 1957 in Warsaw) is a Polish literary historian and author. He is professor of humanities and an employee of the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw.

Jacek Leociak

PhD
Leociak in 2018
Born1957 (age 62–63)
Warsaw, Poland
Academic background
Alma materPolish Academy of Sciences
University of Warsaw
Academic work
Era20th century
InstitutionsPolish Center for Holocaust Research
Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences
Main interestsHolocaust in Poland

Education and career

Leociak received a Ph.D. in 1996 at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences with a dissertation on the Warsaw ghetto.[1] He was awarded the title of Professor at the Academy in 2013.

Since 1997, Leociak was head of the research team on Holocaust literature at the Institute of Literary Research. He also joined the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[1]

Research focus

Leociak deals with the analysis of various forms of recording and of representation of the Holocaust experience. His research interests also include the narratives of victims, perpetrators and witnesses as well as the history of the Warsaw ghetto.[1]

Together with Barbara Engelking, he published the book The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, which first appeared in Polish in 2001. It focuses on the Warsaw Ghetto and its almost four-year history. According to a review in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, the work is "a unique and detailed monograph that gives the reader an insight into the daily life of Jewish inhabitants of the closed district". At 800-pages, the book details "the institutional structure of the ghetto, its relations with the Nazi government, important social institutions, and the economic and community life of the ghetto population," amounting almost to an encyclopedia.[2] A review by the Jewish Book Council finds The Warsaw Ghetto to be an "encyclopedic and impressive work" that does not make for an easy reading, but provides a rich and comprehensive portrayal of the life and fate of the ghetto community.[3]

Works
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gollark: See, if the government was mostly not allowed to do things, that wouldn't happen because they COULDN'T make those changes.
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gollark: They just don't actually care. They can do many other things sort of okay ish.

References
  1. "Nota biograficzna na stronie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów". holocaustresearch.pl. Archived from the original on 2015-03-01. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
  2. Adrian Wójcik: "The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City (review)", Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 30, Number 3, Spring 2012, pp. 176-178
  3. Michael N. Dobkowski: "The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City. Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak", Jewish Book Council
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