Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Unemployed seamstress at her sewing machine, Bialystok, Poland, 1926. Photograph by Alter Kacyzne. (RG 1270, YIVO Archives)

Elena Hoffenberg

PhD Student, History, University of Chicago

Making a Living and Making a Life:
The Jews of Poland between the Two World Wars

Monday, May 15, 2023 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm

Swift Hall 200

Elena’s paper, to be read in advance of the session, is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

Pre-circulated paper: Hoffenberg-JStW-Prospectus (bibliography)