CO-WORKERS
Anna Berezowska
She holds MA degrees in Art History (2018) and Archaeology (2019), as well as a diploma from the Jewish Culture and Languages Program at the University of Wrocław. She is also a graduate of the One-Year Program in Jewish Studies at Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden.
In the 2022–2023 academic year, as part of the Sandwich Doctoral Scholarship Program, she conducted a semester-long doctoral research stay at Bar-Ilan University. In 2023–2024, she was awarded a fellowship within The International Leo Baeck Fellowship Program.
She is currently working on her doctoral project under the supervision of Prof. Joanna Degler (Lisek), provisionally titled: "The Mikveh as a Female Ritual Space, 1870–1939: Dynamics of Change in the Polish and German Lands."
Her research focuses on the discourse surrounding the mikveh, nida, and the transformations within this discourse over time.
Aleksandra Guja
A cultural studies scholar and PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities, Jagiellonian University. She is preparing a dissertation on visual discourses concerning Jews in interwar Polish- and Yiddish-language satirical magazines.
As part of her work at the Memory Studies Research Center at Jagiellonian University, she has actively participated in museum projects, including an outdoor exhibition at the KL Plaszow Museum and the project "My Museum, a Museum About Me: Who Owns the Heritage of the Polish Countryside?" at the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków. She is a recipient of the Global Education Outreach Program scholarship at the POLIN Museum and a laureate of the NCN Preludium 23 grant competition.
Within the project, together with Karol Jóźwiak, she works on the visual language of sources, also contributing her expertise on satirical drawings and caricatures in the Jewish press.
Marina Sedova
A PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw, currently preparing a dissertation on the functioning of mikvehs in the Kingdom of Poland in the 19th century.
In 2022, she defended her MA thesis entitled "The Functioning of Jewish Cemeteries in Eastern Galicia from the Early 20th Century to the Second World War" at the Department of History of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine).
After completing her Master’s degree, she worked for one year as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Warsaw with the support of The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. Since 2022, she has collaborated with The Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a research assistant, participating in projects documenting Jewish cemeteries and Holocaust memorials.
In the project she is responsible for the Russian-language context, focusing mostly on Russian-Jewish ego-documents.