My journey with the Polish language began more than 17 years ago, but just recently I actually published something in Polish. "Unknown Jewish Poland" appeared as a history supplement of Newsweek magazine, just in time for the long weekend in Poland. The topic of the issue is all about pre-war Poland's Jewish community and features a ton of interesting pieces from my colleagues covering the issues of migration, crime, prostitution, Hasidism and many other fun things. The piec

The latest issue of The Polish Review features two book reviews by yours truly. I wrote reviews of Malte Rolf's Imperial Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864-1915 and of Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabkowski's edited volume Night without End . Both of these are English translations of books that appeared in German and Polish respectively. Night without End caused a lot of controversy in Poland over its highlighting the role of Poles in the Holocaust in rural areas. Tho

Last year I spent a week commuting to the Łódź archive to work through the personal papers of Emil Stanisław Rappaport. He was a criminologist and Supreme Court justice both before and after World War II. He was also Raphael Lemkin’s forgotten mentor in Warsaw. My latest article shows how Rappaport and Polish criminology paved the way for postwar justice, set up mostly by Polish Jews like Lemkin and Lauterpacht. The piece is part of a larger volume on Polish contributions to