Piotr Wróbel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piotr Wróbel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piotr |
| FAMILY NAME | Wróbel |
| SIGNATURE | WROBEL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4469-5874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931–1945
Monumental, provocative, original, a masterpiece . . . these are words of praise that appear frequently in the reviews of Overy's book. Indeed, this is a masterpiece and probably the most comprehensive single-volume history of World War II. Overy, an alumnus of Caius College, Cambridge, taught at his alma mater and several other prestigious scholarly institutions, including King's College in London. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and th…
Confronting the Holocaust: Documents on the Polish Government-in-Exile's Policy Concerning Jews, 1939–1945 [W obliczu Zagłady. Rząd RP na uchodźstwie wobec Żydów, 1939–1945]
The book under review falls within a cherished category among historians: collections of documents that grant access to primary sources often tucked away in archives, some of which may be remote and poorly organized. Editors carefully curate these documents, making them more accessible and comprehensible. Some scholars argue that before delving into monographs and syntheses, historians should publish bibliographies and collections of documents to…
The Canadian Contribution to the Polish Military Effort During the First World War: From Secrecy and Improvisation to Success
In Polish historiography and national tradition, the enlistment of Polish volunteers in America and their training at the military camp in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, during the First World War is typically portrayed from a Polish perspective. Furthermore, Canadian assistance is often depicted as a gesture of friendship. However, this article examines the Canadian perspective and argues that Canada’s actions were not entirely altruistic. Ottawa …
A roundtable on John-Paul Himka’s Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA’s Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941–1944
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1. The Polish version, Sąsiedzi, appeared in 2000 and was followed in 2001 by an English edition, Neighbors. Poland is a proper point of reference, because Himka admits that his “monograph comes out of the post-Neighbors consensus” (58).2. Himka, “Krakivski visti.”3. Gerasimov, review of Ukrainian Nationalists, 340.4. Wylegała, review of Ukrainian Nationalists,…
Jüdische Stadtdeputierte in der Zweiten Polnischen Republik: Projekte – Strategien – Dynamiken[The Jewish city councilors in the Second Polish Republic: Plans, strategies, dynamic]
The history of the Jews in interwar Poland (1918–1939) is relatively poorly researched. This is surprising because a proper analysis of this subject is crucial to understanding the Holocaust and the Polish past after 1939. Moreover, within this large field of interwar Polish-Jewish studies, there are minor but important issues that are wholly neglected. One of them is the participation of the Jews in the urban self-government and city councils. A…
An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland
Dramat w rodzinie. Ostatnie lata życia Hürrem zwanej Roksolaną
Hürrem (ur. ok. 1505, zm. 1558), zwana w zachodnich źródłach Roksolaną (lub Roksaną), należy do najbardziej barwnych postaci związanych z Turcją. Historia branki i niewolnicy, która w czasie swego pobytu w haremie sułtańskim (prawdopodobnie w latach 1521–1558) awansowała do roli żony sułtana i jednej z najbardziej wpływowych osób w imperium Osmanów, wywoływała żywe zainteresowanie już u jej współczesnych. Z czasem stała się inspiracją dla licznyc…
Syberiada Żydów polskich: Losy uchodźców z Zagłady [The Siberian odyssey of Polish Jews: The fates of the refugees from the Shoah]
The dark legacy of the Holocaust overshadows the history of the Polish Jews. As a result of this phenomenon, historians have forgotten or neglected several important topics, even though some are linked to the history of the Shoah. The experiences of the Polish Jews who survived the Second World War in the Soviet Union belong to this category. After the partition of Poland by Hitler and Stalin in September 1939, about 1.5 million Polish Jews found…
Wkład arcybiskupa zadarskiego Minuccio Minucciego (1551–1604) w dzieło reformy Kościoła
Josip Vrandei jest chorwackim badaczem dziejw nowoytnych i XIX w., wykadowc na Wydziale Filozoficznym Uniwersytetu w Splicie.Specjalizuje si w badaniach dziejw Dalmacji, a szczeglnie ruchw narodowych, walki o autonomi oraz dyplomatycznej aktywnoci Kocioa katolickiego
Elity w Imperium Osmańskim w XVI w. w świetle traktatu Teodora Spandounesa pt. O pochodzeniu Cesarzy Osmańskich
Teodor Spandounes urodził się w połowie XV w. w rodzinie greckich emigrantów, która po upadku Konstantynopola znalazła schronienie we Włoszech. Ród Spandounesów nie odegrał znaczącej roli w historii Cesarstwa Bizantyjskiego, ale matka Todora, Eudoksja, pochodziła ze znanej rodziny Kantakuzenów. Teodor nawiązał bliskie stosunki z papieżami Klemensem VII i Pawłem III, którym doradzał w sprawach osmańskich. Prawdopodobnie około 1515 r. Spandoune…
Wobec “niespotykanego w dziejach mordu”: Rząd RP na uchodźstwie, Delegatura Rządu RP na Kraj, AK a eksterminacja ludności żydowskiej od “wielkiej akcji” do powstania w getcie warszawskim Adam Puławski
A war over history is going on in Poland. On the one side, the government has been introducing a historical policy (polityka historyczna) that is supposed to defend the “good name of Poland” and to erase the “pedagogy of shame” (pedagogika wstydu) from the Polish historical debate. On the other side, there are writers, journalists, and historians who do not want to align their work with governmental instructions. The fiercest front in this war is…
Obcy” w Dubrowniku od XIII do początków XVI wieku
Problem „obcych” na terenie średniowiecznego Dubrownika w różnych kontekstach (zawodowym, społecznym, ekonomicznym, etnicznym) był przedmiotem zainteresowania licznego grona badaczy (K. Jireček, B. Stulli, I. Mahnken, I. Lučić, I. Mitić, D. Dinić-Knežević, J. Mijušković, I. Voje, B. Krekić, T. Raukar, V. Miović, Z. Janeković-Römer, P. Wróbel). W artykule, po wyrywkowym przeanalizowaniu sytuacji „obcych” w Dubrowniku w okresie od XIII do począ…
The Life and Ideas of Ol'gerd Ipolyt Bochkovs'kyi
Review Essay: Of Ol'gerd Ipolyt Bochkovs'kyi: Vybrani pratsi ta dokumenty [Ol'gerd Ipolyt Bochkovs'kyi: Selected Works and Documents]. Compiled by Olia Hnatiuk and Myroslav Chekh, Zhurnal “Ukraina Moderna” / Vydavnytstvo “Dukh i Litera,” 2018-19. 3 vols. Ukraina. Ievropa: 1921-1939 [Ukraine. Europe: 1921-1939]. 704 pp. (vol. 1), 976 pp. (vol. 2), 852 pp. (vol. 3). Illustrations. Tables. Indexes. $44.95 (per vol.), cloth
In Enemy Land: The Jews of Kielce and the Region, 1939–1946 Sara Bender
On July 4, 1946 in the city of Kielce a Polish mob, a Polish police detachment, and a unit of the Polish Army murdered over forty Jewish survivors and injured dozens more.1 The pogrom shocked Polish and international public opinion. How could it happen, many asked, that only a year after the Holocaust, Jews had been killed again. Why did people of Kielce, who had witnessed the annihilation of the city’s Jewish community, murder some of the few su…
Mlodzież Andersa: Wojskowe Szkoły Junaków, 1941–1947 [The Young People of Anders: Military Cadet Schools, 1941–1947]
A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait
A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait." East European Jewish Affairs, 49(1), pp. 86–87
Ola Hnatiuk. Odwaga i strach [Courage and Fear]
Review of Ola Hnatiuk. Odwaga i strach [Courage and Fear]. 2nd ed., Wydawnictwo KEW, 2016. 720 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. PLN 39.00, paper
The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia
Book Review| December 01 2018 The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia, a combined volume, Valerie Schatzker, The Jewish Oil Magnates: A History, 1855–1945, and Julien Hirszhaut, The Jewish Oil Magnates, translated by Miriam Dashkin Beckerman and edited by Valerie Schatzker (Montreal & Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015), 522 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0-7735-4554-0 …
Piotr Stefan Wandycz (20 September 1923 – 29 July 2017)
The demise of Professor Wandycz closed a chapter in a history of Polish historiography.He belonged to a group of outstanding Polish historians who came to North America during and shortly after the Second World War.Throughout the worst years of the communist regime in Warsaw, when the Soviet Marxist orthodoxy stifl ed historical research in Poland, they wrote essential works, contributed to the development of the world scholarship, and upheld the…
Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943–1957 by Patryk Babiracki
Anna Wylegała. Przesiedlenia a pamięć. Studium (nie)pamięci społecznej na przykładzie ukraińskiej Galicji i polskich “Ziem Odzyskanych.”
Anna Wylegała. Przesiedlenia a pamięć. Studium (nie)pamięci społecznej na przykładzie ukraińskiej Galicji i polskich “Ziem Odzyskanych.” Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2014. 509 pp. Illustrations. Postscript. Summary. Bibliography. Appendices. English summary. Index
Serhii Plokhy, The gates of Europe: A history of Ukraine
As Ukraine has become one of the most dangerous conflict zones of the early twenty-first century, it proves the importance of having books such as Serhii Plokhy’s for academic and political discour
Independence Day: Myth, Symbol, and the Creation of Modern Poland , by M.B.B. Biskupski
Day: Myth, Symbol, and the Creation of Modern Poland, by M.B.B. Biskupski. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012. xiii, 200 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). Historical narratives and national holidays are important elements of politics. For this reason, they are frequently objects of extensive scholarly research. The book under review is a penetrating study of the Polish national holiday, the of November 11. Yet for the author, a history of this celebrati…
Class War or Ethnic Cleansing? Soviet Deportations of Polish Citizens from the Eastern Provinces of Poland, 1939–1941
Between 1939 and 1941, the Soviet authorities deported hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens from Poland’s eastern province occupied by the Soviet Union at the beginning of the World War II. A large part of the deportees did not survive the “Siberian odyssey.” These tragic facts became an important element of the Polish collective memory and the national historical narrative. Yet historians disagree on how many people were deported and how man…
Failed Integration: Jews and the Beginning of the Communist Movement in Poland
Double Memory: Poles and Jews after the Holocaust
The Seeds of Violence. The Brutalization of an East European Region, 1917–1921
Saat der Gewalt. Die Brutalisierung einer osteuropäischen Region, 1917–1921Saat der Gewalt. Die Brutalisierung einer osteuropäischen Region, 1917–1921Im polnisch-russischen Grenzland führten schon vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg die Unterdrückung der polnischen Nationalbewegung durch das zaristische Regime und die sozialen und nationalen Spannungen zwischen ukrainischen Bauern und polnischem Adel zu Gewaltausbrüchen. In ihnen geriet die jüdische Bevölke…
Jewish Warsaw before the First World War
Double Memory: Poles and Jews after the Holocaust
Jerzy Michalewicz, Żydowskie okręgi metrykalne i żydowskie gminy wyznaniowe w Galicji
In the Shadow of the Polish Eagle: The Poles, the Holocaust, and Beyond
1University of Toronto In the Shadow of the Polish Eagle: The Poles, the Holocaust, and Beyond LeoCooper Basingstoke, UK; New YorkPalgrave 2000xv + 255£47.50
The Seeds of Violence. The Brutalization of an East European Region, 1917–1921
Saat der Gewalt. Die Brutalisierung einer osteuropäischen Region, 1917–1921Saat der Gewalt. Die Brutalisierung einer osteuropäischen Region, 1917–1921Im polnisch-russischen Grenzland führten schon vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg die Unterdrückung der polnischen Nationalbewegung durch das zaristische Regime und die sozialen und nationalen Spannungen zwischen ukrainischen Bauern und polnischem Adel zu Gewaltausbrüchen. In ihnen geriet die jüdische Bevölke…
Apollo, Mercury, and Soviet Jews
Scenariusz ocalenia. Wspomnienia Józefa Skakuna spisane przez jego syna [A Survival Senario. The Recollections of Józef Skakun Written by his Son]
Book Review| October 01 2010 Scenariusz ocalenia. Wspomnienia Józefa Skakuna spisane przez jego syna [A Survival Senario. The Recollections of Józef Skakun Written by his Son] Scenariusz ocalenia. Wspomnienia Józefa Skakuna spisane przez jego syna [A Survival Senario. The Recollections of Józef Skakun Written by his Son], Michael Skakun. PIOTR WRÓBEL PIOTR WRÓBEL Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2010) …
Failed Integration: Jews and the Beginning of the Communist Movement in Poland
Polish-Ukrainian Relations during World War II: The Boryslav Case Study: A Polish Perspective
After the fall of communism in 1989–1991, Poland and Ukraine could have become partners in international, economic, and cultural fields. Yet despite many positive achievements, the contemporary Polish-Ukrainian cooperation did not fully develop. Among many reasons that slow down the Polish-Ukrainian rapprochement, historical memories seem to be especially detrimental. The remembrances of World War II are the most destructive. Both Poles and Ukrai…
Independence Day: Myth, Symbol, and the Creation of Modern Poland , by M.B.B. Biskupski
Day: Myth, Symbol, and the Creation of Modern Poland, by M.B.B. Biskupski. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012. xiii, 200 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). Historical narratives and national holidays are important elements of politics. For this reason, they are frequently objects of extensive scholarly research. The book under review is a penetrating study of the Polish national holiday, the of November 11. Yet for the author, a history of this celebrati…
Class War or Ethnic Cleansing? Soviet Deportations of Polish Citizens from the Eastern Provinces of Poland, 1939–1941
Between 1939 and 1941, the Soviet authorities deported hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens from Poland’s eastern province occupied by the Soviet Union at the beginning of the World War II. A large part of the deportees did not survive the “Siberian odyssey.” These tragic facts became an important element of the Polish collective memory and the national historical narrative. Yet historians disagree on how many people were deported and how man…
Anna Wylegała. Przesiedlenia a pamięć. Studium (nie)pamięci społecznej na przykładzie ukraińskiej Galicji i polskich “Ziem Odzyskanych.”
Anna Wylegała. Przesiedlenia a pamięć. Studium (nie)pamięci społecznej na przykładzie ukraińskiej Galicji i polskich “Ziem Odzyskanych.” Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2014. 509 pp. Illustrations. Postscript. Summary. Bibliography. Appendices. English summary. Index
Serhii Plokhy, The gates of Europe: A history of Ukraine
As Ukraine has become one of the most dangerous conflict zones of the early twenty-first century, it proves the importance of having books such as Serhii Plokhy’s for academic and political discour
Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943–1957 by Patryk Babiracki
Ola Hnatiuk. Odwaga i strach [Courage and Fear]
Review of Ola Hnatiuk. Odwaga i strach [Courage and Fear]. 2nd ed., Wydawnictwo KEW, 2016. 720 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. PLN 39.00, paper
The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia
Book Review| December 01 2018 The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia, a combined volume, Valerie Schatzker, The Jewish Oil Magnates: A History, 1855–1945, and Julien Hirszhaut, The Jewish Oil Magnates, translated by Miriam Dashkin Beckerman and edited by Valerie Schatzker (Montreal & Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015), 522 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0-7735-4554-0 …
Piotr Stefan Wandycz (20 September 1923 – 29 July 2017)
The demise of Professor Wandycz closed a chapter in a history of Polish historiography.He belonged to a group of outstanding Polish historians who came to North America during and shortly after the Second World War.Throughout the worst years of the communist regime in Warsaw, when the Soviet Marxist orthodoxy stifl ed historical research in Poland, they wrote essential works, contributed to the development of the world scholarship, and upheld the…
A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait
A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait." East European Jewish Affairs, 49(1), pp. 86–87
Obcy” w Dubrowniku od XIII do początków XVI wieku
Problem „obcych” na terenie średniowiecznego Dubrownika w różnych kontekstach (zawodowym, społecznym, ekonomicznym, etnicznym) był przedmiotem zainteresowania licznego grona badaczy (K. Jireček, B. Stulli, I. Mahnken, I. Lučić, I. Mitić, D. Dinić-Knežević, J. Mijušković, I. Voje, B. Krekić, T. Raukar, V. Miović, Z. Janeković-Römer, P. Wróbel). W artykule, po wyrywkowym przeanalizowaniu sytuacji „obcych” w Dubrowniku w okresie od XIII do począ…
The Life and Ideas of Ol'gerd Ipolyt Bochkovs'kyi
Review Essay: Of Ol'gerd Ipolyt Bochkovs'kyi: Vybrani pratsi ta dokumenty [Ol'gerd Ipolyt Bochkovs'kyi: Selected Works and Documents]. Compiled by Olia Hnatiuk and Myroslav Chekh, Zhurnal “Ukraina Moderna” / Vydavnytstvo “Dukh i Litera,” 2018-19. 3 vols. Ukraina. Ievropa: 1921-1939 [Ukraine. Europe: 1921-1939]. 704 pp. (vol. 1), 976 pp. (vol. 2), 852 pp. (vol. 3). Illustrations. Tables. Indexes. $44.95 (per vol.), cloth
In Enemy Land: The Jews of Kielce and the Region, 1939–1946 Sara Bender
On July 4, 1946 in the city of Kielce a Polish mob, a Polish police detachment, and a unit of the Polish Army murdered over forty Jewish survivors and injured dozens more.1 The pogrom shocked Polish and international public opinion. How could it happen, many asked, that only a year after the Holocaust, Jews had been killed again. Why did people of Kielce, who had witnessed the annihilation of the city’s Jewish community, murder some of the few su…
Mlodzież Andersa: Wojskowe Szkoły Junaków, 1941–1947 [The Young People of Anders: Military Cadet Schools, 1941–1947]
Wkład arcybiskupa zadarskiego Minuccio Minucciego (1551–1604) w dzieło reformy Kościoła
Josip Vrandei jest chorwackim badaczem dziejw nowoytnych i XIX w., wykadowc na Wydziale Filozoficznym Uniwersytetu w Splicie.Specjalizuje si w badaniach dziejw Dalmacji, a szczeglnie ruchw narodowych, walki o autonomi oraz dyplomatycznej aktywnoci Kocioa katolickiego
Elity w Imperium Osmańskim w XVI w. w świetle traktatu Teodora Spandounesa pt. O pochodzeniu Cesarzy Osmańskich
Teodor Spandounes urodził się w połowie XV w. w rodzinie greckich emigrantów, która po upadku Konstantynopola znalazła schronienie we Włoszech. Ród Spandounesów nie odegrał znaczącej roli w historii Cesarstwa Bizantyjskiego, ale matka Todora, Eudoksja, pochodziła ze znanej rodziny Kantakuzenów. Teodor nawiązał bliskie stosunki z papieżami Klemensem VII i Pawłem III, którym doradzał w sprawach osmańskich. Prawdopodobnie około 1515 r. Spandoune…
Wobec “niespotykanego w dziejach mordu”: Rząd RP na uchodźstwie, Delegatura Rządu RP na Kraj, AK a eksterminacja ludności żydowskiej od “wielkiej akcji” do powstania w getcie warszawskim Adam Puławski
A war over history is going on in Poland. On the one side, the government has been introducing a historical policy (polityka historyczna) that is supposed to defend the “good name of Poland” and to erase the “pedagogy of shame” (pedagogika wstydu) from the Polish historical debate. On the other side, there are writers, journalists, and historians who do not want to align their work with governmental instructions. The fiercest front in this war is…
Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (19 works) · History (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Art (16 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (13 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Theology (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works)