Jewish historian rejects prestigious Polish award JEWISH American historian Eliyana Adler has refused to accept an award worth $19,000 from the Polish government’s Pilecki Institute, arguing that it suppresses work by “historians who strive to show the complex and indeed tragic aspects of Poland’s wartime past”. Adler, an associate professor at Penn State University, was given a newly-inaugurated award for scholarship on 20th-century Poland, the Pilecki Institute’s specialty, for her 2020 book, Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union. The honour was to be co-awarded by the Auschwitz memorial museum. “The Pilecki Institute, while very...
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