Name Szymon Rudnicki | ||
prof. Szymon Rudnicki
Prof. dr hab. Szymon Rudnicki (born in 1938 in Wilno) is a Polish historian. He specializes in the history of the Second Polish Republic, right-wing political movements of that era, and the Polish-Jewish relations.
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He lectured at the Institute of History of the University of Warsaw, in 1973-1987 he was its deputy director. In November 1996 he received a degree of professor. Rudnicki focuses mostly on the ideology and activities of Polish interwar right-wing movements. He also focuses on the Jewish question in Poland and the Polish-Jewish relations in interwar Poland. His book Zydzi w parlamencie II Rzeczypospolitej (Jews in the Parliament of the Second Republic), published in 2003, won the KLIO Prize (Nagroda KLIO) in 2004 for the best scientific monography. Rudnicki is also a member of the Jewish Historical Institute (Zydowski Instytut Historyczny), where he co-edited their bulletin as the Kwartalnik Historii Zydow (Jewish History Quarterly).
In 2008 he was awarded the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for his achievements in the area of contemporary Polish political history and the history of Polish Jews.