Zachary Mazur

Welcome to my site! I'm a historian, lecturer, writer, and teacher.

My main research uncovers the interaction between economics, law and nationalism in East Central Europe.

Posts & Articles

I write brief blog posts on various subjects that interest me.

Zachary Mazur

The von Hochberg family and a 1930s tax scandal

Silesian coal mining operation, 1920s. In the interwar years, the von Hochberg family was one of the richest in Europe. Hans Heinrich XV...

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Publication: Letters from the Archive

My main place of employment is the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. When the museum opened about a decade ago, it was a museum...

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Book Review: Goodbye, Eastern Europe

A few months back, the Austrian History Yearbook asked me to review a new mass market history of Eastern Europe, published by Penguin...