Marcin Wodziński facts for kids
Marcin Wodziński is a well-known professor who studies Jewish history and culture. He works at the University of Wrocław in Poland, where he leads the Taube Department of Jewish Studies. Professor Wodziński mostly focuses on the history of Jewish people in the 1800s, especially in places like Silesia and Eastern Europe. He is very interested in two important movements: the Haskalah (a Jewish Enlightenment) and the Hasidic movement.
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Marcin Wodziński
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Marcin Wodziński
30 May 1966 Świdnica, województwo dolnośląskie, Poland
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| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | University of Wrocław |
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Notable work
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Historical Atlas of Hasidism, Hasidism: A New History, Hasidism: Key Questions |
| Awards | Łukasz Hirszowicz Award (2008), Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Prize (2011), National Jewish Book Award (2018) (for the Historical Atlas of Hasidism), Irena Sendlerowa Memorial Award (2023) |
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| Institutions | University of Wrocław |
| Thesis | Hebrew Inscriptions in Silesia 13th–18th Century (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerzy Woronczak |
| Doctoral students | Anna Kałużna, Lidia Jerkiewicz, Piotr Grącikowski, Agata Rybińska, Agnieszka Jagodzińska |
He uses special methods, like looking at maps and numbers, to understand how the Hasidic movement grew. This helps him see how geography played a big part in its development in places like Poland and Eastern Europe.
His book, Historical Atlas of Hasidism, uses this map-based approach. He has also written other books about the history of Hasidism, including Hasidism: Key Questions and Hasidism: A New History.
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Digital History Work
Professor Wodziński is also interested in using computers and digital tools for historical research. He has helped with several projects that collect and analyze historical information. He has worked with universities in Israel and Toronto University on these projects.
Editor of Journals
From 2009 to 2018, Professor Wodziński was the main editor of Studia Judaica. This is a journal published twice a year by the Polish Association of Jewish Studies. Since 2021, he has been the main editor of the European Journal of Jewish Studies.
Museum Work
Professor Wodziński worked as a history expert at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. He worked there from 2000 to 2014. For two of those years (2010–2012), he was the museum's senior historian.
He led the team that created the 19th-century part of the museum's main exhibition. Since then, he has been a member of the museum's Historical Committee. This committee helps guide the museum's historical research.
Memberships
Professor Wodziński is a member of important groups like the Academia Europaea and the Polish Academy of Sciences. These are groups of top scholars and scientists.
Books by Marcin Wodziński
Professor Wodziński has written many books about Jewish history. Here are some of his notable works:
- Hebrew Inscriptions in Silesia 13th – 18th Century (1996)
- Graves of Zaddikim in Poland. On the Funeral Literature of Hasidim and its Contexts (1998)
- Jewish Cemetery in Lesko. Part 1: 16th and 17th Centuries (co-authored with Andrzej Trzciński) (2002)
- Bibliography on the History of Silesian Jewry II (2004)
- Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland: A History of Conflict (2005)
- Judaica in the archival collection of the Central Religious Authorities of the Kingdom of Poland: Archival guide (2010)
- Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1867: Historical Sources in the Polish State Archives (2011)
- Hasidism and Politics: The Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1864 (2013)
- Historical Atlas of Hasidism (with maps by Waldemar Spallek) (2018)
- Hasidism: Key Questions (2018)
- Hasidism: A New History (co-authored with David Assaf, David Biale, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gad Sagiv) (2018)
See also
- Moshe Rosman
- Heinrich Graetz
- Simon Dubnow
- Salo W. Baron
