Captains of Industry: Assimilated Jewry and the Idea of National Development (1882-1922) in the Kingdom of Poland

Online lecture on Zoom, from Małgorzata Mazurek in association with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies

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.

Malgorzata Mazurek is Associate Professor of Polish Studies at Columbia University.

She specializes in the modern history of Poland and East Central Europe. Her interests include the history of social sciences, international development, social history of labor and consumption in twentieth-century Poland.