Minorities in Poland
Jewish Communities in Poland
To learn more about Jewish peoples in Poland, you can consult the following resources:
- The information on Poland in JGuideEurope’s Cultural Guide to European Jewry is an excellent place to learn more about this history.
- You can take a virtual tour of the POLIN Museum and learn about the 1000 year history of Polish Jews, both on the museum’s website and via the museum’s Google Arts & Culture page.
- The museum also runs the Virtual Shtetl project, which provides information on nearly 2000 towns that once had significant Jewish populations.
- Antony Polonsky’s The Jews in Poland and Russia is an excellent and comprehensive portrait of Jewish life in this part of the world.
- Gershon David Hundert’s Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century, as the title suggest, offers an in-depth study on Jewish life and culture during 18th century.
- Michael C. Steinlauf’s Bondage to the Dead, meanwhile, largely focuses on post-war developments regarding Jewish communities and their memory in Poland.
The Polish Diaspora Abroad
Poles in the United States
If you’re interested in learning more about Poles in the United States, these resources may be of use:
- Roger Daniels’s Coming to America offers a brief but useful overview of Polish immigration to the U.S.
- John Bukowczyk’s Polish Americans and Their History is a more in depth overview of the Polish American experience.
- Polish American Voices: A Documentary History, 1608-2020 provides primary source documents detailing the experiences of Polish immigrants from all major waves of immigration.
- The Images of America book series by Arcadia Publishing has a number of volumes detailing various Polish American communities throughout the United States.