Antony Polonsky

Antony Polonsky is Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is a leading authority on East-European Jewish history and specifically Polish-Jewish relations. Among his most recent books are Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (Nebraska University Press, 2001) and The Neighbours Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (Princeton University Press, 2004). Professor Polonsky is founder of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies at Oxford, Vice-President of the American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies, former member of the International Council of the State Museum at Auschwitz, and editor-in-chief of Polin, a journal of Polish-Jewish studies. (2005)