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Karolina Szymaniak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław, participating in the Fugue Program of the National Science Center. She holds an MA from the University of Warsaw (Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities) and a PhD from the Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Polish Studies. Her research focuses on modern Yiddish literature, Polish-Jewish cultural interactions, and memory politics, with a particular emphasis on women’s contributions to avant-garde movements.
Key achievements include the 2016 Polityka Historical Award for her work on Rachel Auerbach’s writings from the Warsaw Ghetto. She has lectured globally on Yiddish language and culture, consulted for institutions like POLIN Museum, and co-curated exhibitions such as Montages. Debora Vogel and the New Legend of the City. She organizes international conferences, most recently Yiddishism: Mythologies and Iconographies, and serves on the Audit Committee of the Polish Society for Yiddish Studies.
Her current project examines Yiddish-Polish literary and cultural contacts across the 20th and 21st centuries. Research interests span translation theory, modernism, and the politics of cultural memory.
