CO-WORKERS

Anna Berezowska (March - June 2026)

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.

Agata Reibach

Linguist, translator, Yiddish scholar, and graduate of the German Studies program at the University of Warsaw. In 2012 she defended her doctoral dissertation on Yiddish-Polish language contact at the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw. She has received fellowships from, among others, the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. She was part of the projects "Poland’s Linguistic Heritage: Documentation Database of Endangered Languages" and "Long-Lasting Language Contact and Its Lexical and Semantic Outcomes Based on the Example of Polish Lexical Borrowings in Yiddish." She has published several articles on various topics in Yiddish linguistics and culture. Her research interests include contact linguistics, lexicology, semantics, and mutual cultural influences. She is also a Yiddish instructor and translator. For many years, she taught Yiddish, including at the International Summer Seminar on Yiddish Language and Culture in Warsaw. As a translator, she collaborates with, among others, the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. She is also a certified translator of Yiddish and the author of scholarly articles in the field.

In the project Discourses on the Body in Jewish Culture in Polish Territories, 1880–1939, she examines the German-Jewish cultural context. She examines the German-Jewish press published in the Polish territories, comparing it with the Yiddish press and the general German-Jewish press. She also studies the development of the Jewish gymnastics movement in the Prussian and Austro-Hungarian partitions, as well as analysing personal documents. She is co-creating a database of individuals who influenced the spread of discourse on the body amongst German-speaking Jews living in the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She is also selecting German-language sources for an anthology.

Anna Urbanowicz

She graduated in Jewish Studies and Art History from the University of Wrocław. From 2022 to 2024, she served as president of the "Shnirele Perele" Student Research Group at the Department of Jewish Studies. She was also a three-time recipient of the Lilka and Kuba Kronhill Scholarship. In 2023, she led workshops on sepulchral Jewish culture during the Simcha Jewish Culture Festival. She co-organized the project "What's New in Niderszlezje?" The History of the Postwar Jewish Journal and Publishing House "Niderszlezje" in Wrocław, which resulted in a board exhibition and a bibliography database available on the website of the Digital Humanities Workshop at the University of Wrocław.