Led by: Jacek Stawiski

The Jewish American community is the largest Jewish community in the world, outside of Israel: amounting to approximately 7 million people. Although they only constitute 2 percent of the whole US population, Jewish input in American economy, politics, and culture is definitely wider than what these numbers reflect. A large majority of this diaspora are children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of immigrants from Poland.

Among those interviewed by the author are rabbis, leaders, and activists of Jewish organizations, journalists, university scholars who are experts in Jewish Studies, and so-called common people. These conversations depict their fates, their mindset, reasons behind their choices and decisions, as well as their complexities and fears. From this perspective readers can better understand why they are who they are. Let’s get to know American Jews better.

Tomasz Zalewski is a long-time correspondent of the Polish press in Washington D.C., who lived in the US for 30 years. He is a graduate of Sociology of the University of Warsaw, and from 1973 to 1982 he worked at the “Literatura” weekly magazine. In 1985, together with Małgorzata Szejnert, he received the Solidarność Prize for the book “Szczecin: Grudzień–Sierpień–Grudzień” (“Szczecin: December–August–December”), which depicts the birth of a revolt in Szczecin between 1970-81. In 1987 he moved to the United States where he worked at the New York “Nowy Dziennik”, and from 1992 to 2013 he worked for the Polish Press Agency. Since 1997 he has been a long-time collaborator of “Polityka” weekly magazine. In 2011 he published a book titled “Inne Stany” (“Other States”).

Partner: Polityka

In Polish.
Free admission.