Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish
with Professor Moshe Rosman, Professor François Guesnet and Professor Antony Polonsky
(Chair)
Wednesday 19 October 2022
18.00-19.00 BST
At this book launch Professor Rosman will delineate some principles that have guided his
research and writing. He will describe how these shaped and gained expression in
Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish. Among the notions he will examine are reformed
positivism, the relationship between history and metahistory, typical and atypical historical
sources, and the place of ‘influence’ in historical analysis. He also will explain his view of
Jewish history in the Commonwealth as overall a story of stability and achievement
punctuated by persecution and crisis.
Moshe Rosman is Emeritus Professor in the Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and
Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. Specializing in the history of the Jews in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, his books have won awards in the USA, Israel and
Poland.
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