
25/03/2025
IPJS: Captains of Industry: Assimilated Jewry and the Idea of National Development (1882-1922) in the Kingdom of Poland
This presentation tells the story of Polonized Jewish families living in industrialized cities of Russian Poland and their experience of the shift from an empire to a nation-state. By tracing the history of two Polish-Jewish economists, MIchał Kalecki and Ludwik Landau, the speaker will seek to explain connections between Jewish acculturation and its culture of holistic thinking about society and economy that trumped integral nationalism.