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    Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | 5:30 pm The Magnes | 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA John Connelly, History, UC Berkeley Poland Reborn: A State Between Democracy and Fascism This talk focuses on the divided Poland that emerged after World War I. On the one hand Poland had to accommodate the demands of generations of freedom fighters, while on the other, it quickly became a dysfunctional democracy that lapsed into authoritarian rule after 1926, opening spaces for xenophobia and discrimination against Jews. Yet this was far from a totalitarian order. The state arrested fascists, and in the late 1930s became a place of modest hopes for reform, where Polish and Jewish parties left of center collaborated, and where the government, with overwhelming support of the population, became the first to say no to Hitler’s expanding rule. John Connelly is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and current director of the Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies. He holds degrees from Georgetown University (BSFS), the University of Michigan (MA in Russian and East European Studies), and Harvard University (PhD). Among his publications are Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish Higher Education (Chapel Hill, 2000), and From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews (Harvard, 2012), which was awarded the John Gilmary Shea prize of the American Catholic Historical Association. He is currently working on a history of East Central Europe, 1784 to present, due to appear with Princeton University Press, as well as on a history of Austro-fascism.

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    Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | 5:30 pm The Magnes | 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA John Connelly, History, UC Berkeley Poland Reborn: A State Between Democracy and Fascism This talk focuses on the divided Poland that emerged after World War I. On the one hand Poland had to accommodate the demands of generations of freedom fighters, while on the other, it quickly became a dysfunctional democracy that lapsed into authoritarian rule after 1926, opening spaces for xenophobia and discrimination against Jews. Yet this was far from a totalitarian order. The state arrested fascists, and in the late 1930s became a place of modest hopes for reform, where Polish and Jewish parties left of center collaborated, and where the government, with overwhelming support of the population, became the first to say no to Hitler’s expanding rule. John Connelly is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and current director of the Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies. He holds degrees from Georgetown University (BSFS), the University of Michigan (MA in Russian and East European Studies), and Harvard University (PhD). Among his publications are Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish Higher Education (Chapel Hill, 2000), and From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews (Harvard, 2012), which was awarded the John Gilmary Shea prize of the American Catholic Historical Association. He is currently working on a history of East Central Europe, 1784 to present, due to appear with Princeton University Press, as well as on a history of Austro-fascism.

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    Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | 5:30 pm The Magnes | 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA John Connelly, History, UC Berkeley Poland Reborn: A State Between Democracy and Fascism This talk focuses on the divided Poland that emerged after World War I. On the one hand Poland had to accommodate the demands of generations of freedom fighters, while on the other, it quickly became a dysfunctional democracy that lapsed into authoritarian rule after 1926, opening spaces for xenophobia and discrimination against Jews. Yet this was far from a totalitarian order. The state arrested fascists, and in the late 1930s became a place of modest hopes for reform, where Polish and Jewish parties left of center collaborated, and where the government, with overwhelming support of the population, became the first to say no to Hitler’s expanding rule. John Connelly is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and current director of the Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies. He holds degrees from Georgetown University (BSFS), the University of Michigan (MA in Russian and East European Studies), and Harvard University (PhD). Among his publications are Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish Higher Education (Chapel Hill, 2000), and From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews (Harvard, 2012), which was awarded the John Gilmary Shea prize of the American Catholic Historical Association. He is currently working on a history of East Central Europe, 1784 to present, due to appear with Princeton University Press, as well as on a history of Austro-fascism.

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    AROUND  ARTHUR  SZYK

    Berkeley Scholars on Art and History


    In the course of the 2018-2019 academic year, Berkeley historians, art historians,
    media, and Jewish Studies scholars present insightful research and commentary
    Around Arthur Szyk in a series of programs at The Magnes.

    Tuesday, February 26, 2019


    5:30 PM–7:00PM
    The Magnes
    2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    Poland Reborn:
    A State Between Democracy and Fascism
    JOHN CONNELLY
    HISTORY, UC BERKELEY
    This talk focuses on the divided Poland that emerged after World War I. On the one hand Poland
    had to accommodate the demands of generations of freedom fighters, while on the other, it
    quickly became a dysfunctional democracy that lapsed into authoritarian rule after 1926, opening
    spaces for xenophobia and discrimination against Jews. Yet this was far from a totalitarian order.
    The state arrested fascists, and in the late 1930s became a place of modest hopes for reform,
    where Polish and Jewish parties left of center collaborated, and where the government, with
    overwhelming support of the population, became the first to say no to Hitler’s expanding rule.

    John Connelly is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and current
    director of the Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies. He holds degrees from
    Georgetown University (BSFS), the University of Michigan (MA in Russian and East European
    Studies), and Harvard University (PhD). Among his publications are Captive University: The
    Sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish Higher Education (Chapel Hill, 2000), and
    From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews (Harvard, 2012),
    which was awarded the John Gilmary Shea prize of the American Catholic Historical
    Association. He is currently working on a history of East Central Europe, 1784 to present, due
    to appear with Princeton University Press, as well as on a history of Austro-fascism.

    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley
    2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-6300 | magnes.berkeley.edu

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