Team

Alicja Markowska

doctoral researcher

Slavonic Literature and Cultural Studies with a Focus on Western Slavonic Studies, Leipzig University

Academic CV

A graduate of German Studies (BA received in 2024) and Jewish Studies (MA received in 2025) at the University of Wrocław. Participated in a student research project focused on the postwar history of Jews in Lower Silesia and the periodical Nidershlezye. In July 2024 took part in the Naomi Prawer Kadar Yiddish Research Seminar at Tel Aviv University. In August 2024 completed a Yiddish language course at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Research Interests

Polish-Jewish identity
Migration and Transnational Studies
Museum Studies
Jewish History in Postwar Poland

Research Project

Creating Belonging: Jewish Guidebooks to Eretz Israel in the Polish Print Market (c. 1900–1948)

Publications

Bibliography of the Contents of the Periodical "Nidershlezye”. Online access: https://phc.uni.wroc.pl/judaistyka/bibniderszlezje.html [together with Gabriele Szewczuk, Anna Urbanowicz, accessed: 25 September 2025].

“Nidershlezye” – Bibliography of Contents. Online access: https://www.repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl/publication/151410 [accessed: 25 September 2025].

Polnisch-Deutsche Übersetzung der Eigennamen in der Ausstellungen der Stiftung für Europäische Verständigung in Kreisau. In: Doktorandenforum Auslandsgermanistik. Germanistische Forschungsfragen in Katowice und Wrocław, edited by Georg Schuppener et al., vol. 4, Leipzig 2025, pp. 75–88.