Tomaszewski, Jerzy 1930–

PERSONAL: Born October 8, 1930, in Radomsko, Poland; son of Dyonizy (an insurance official) and Irena (an insurance official; maiden name, Podgórska) Tomaszewski; married Zofia Teresa Antosiak (a graphic artist), April 21, 1957; children: Agata. Ethnicity: "Polish." Education: Szkola Glówna Planowania i Statystyki (now Szkola Glówna Handlowa; Warsaw, Poland), M.A., 1954; Ph.D., 1960. Hobbies and other interests: History and culture of Czechs and Slovaks.

ADDRESSES: Home—01-548 Warszawa, Czarnieckiego 52, Poland. Office—Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Historyczny (University of Warsaw, Institute of History), Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-325 Warsaw, Poland.

CAREER: Historian and writer. Szkola Glówna Planowania i Statystyki, assistant professor, 1950–67; Szkola Glówna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, associate professor, 1960–70; University of Warsaw, associate professor, 1970–72, professor, 1972–90, professor and head of M. Anielewicz Center for the Study and Teaching of the History and Culture of the Jews in Poland 1990–2005, professor emeritus, 2005–. Zydowski Instytut Naukowy—Instytut Naukowy-Badawczy, member of the board, 1970–; Wyzsza Szkola Gospodarki Krajowej w Kutnie, visiting professor 2004–.

MEMBER: Stowarzyszenie Zydowski Instytut Naukowy, Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne, Czechoslovak History Conference, World Union Jewish Studies, Stowarzyszenie "Otwarta Rzeczpospolita."

AWARDS, HONORS: Krzyz Kawalerski (Knight's Cross), Polonia Restitute; Medal 1,300 Godini Balgaria (1,300 years of Bulgaria medal), for the merits of the development of social studies.

WRITINGS:

Stabilizacja waluty w Polsce (economics), Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw, Poland), 1961.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Zarys historii gospodarczej Polski, 1918–1939 (economics), Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw, Poland), 1962, reprinted, 1981.

Z dziejów Polesia. Zarys stosunków spolecznoekonomicznych, 1915–1939, Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe (Warsaw, Poland), 1963.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Kapitaly obce w Polsce, 1918–1939 (economics), Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw, Poland), 1964.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Gospodarka Polski miedzywojennej 1918–1939 (economics), four volumes, Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw, Poland), 1967–89.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Trudna niepodleglosc: rozwazania o gospodarce Polski, 1918–1939 (economics), Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw, Poland), 1968.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Anonimowi wladcy, Wiedza Powszechna (Warsaw, Poland), 1968.

Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A.: historia i rozwój, 1870–1970 (history), [Warsaw, Poland], 1970.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Robotnicy przemyslowi w Polsce, Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw, Poland), 1971.

(With others) Historia gospodarcza Polski XIX i XX wieku (economics), Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw, Poland), 1975.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Druga Rzeczpospolita: gospodarka, spoleczenstwo, miejsce w swiecie: sporne problemy badan (economics), Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw, Poland), 1977.

Rozwój Bulgarii w latach 1944–1956 (Bulgaria; economics), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (Warsaw, Poland), 1980.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Polska w Europie i swiecie, 1918–1939 (history) Wiedza Powszechna (Warsaw, Poland), 1980, reprinted, Wydawnictwo "Trio" (Warsaw, Poland), 2005.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A. 1929–1979 (banking history), [Warsaw, Poland], 1983.

(With others) Historia gospodarcza Polski XIX i XX wieku (history), Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw, Poland), 1984.

(With Zbigniew Landau) The Polish Economy in the Twentieth Century, translated by Wojciech Roszkowski, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1985.

Rzeczpospolita wielu narodów (economics and ethnic relations), Czytelnik (Warsaw, Poland), 1985.

Ojczyzna nie tylko Polaków: mniejszosci narodowe w Polsce w latach 1918–1939 (ethnic relations), Mlodziezowa Agencja Wydawnicza (Warsaw, Poland), 1985.

(With Zbigniew Landau) Wirtschaftsgeschichte Polens im 19 und 20 (economics), Akademie-Verlag (Berlin, Germany), 1986.

(With others) Studia polsko-litewsko-bialoruskie: praca zbiorowa (foreign relations), Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe (Warsaw, Poland), 1988.

Bulgaria 1944–1970: trudna droga do socjalizmu (history), Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe (Warsaw, Poland), 1989.

The Socialist Regimes of East Central Europe: Their Establishment and Consolidation, 1944–1967, translated by Jolanta Krauze, Routledge (New York, NY), 1989.

Zarys dziejów Zydów w Polsce w latach 1918–1939 (history), Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (Warsaw, Poland), 1990.

(With others) Ignacy Dworczanin, bialoruski polityk i uczony (history of Belarus), 1990.

(With Józef Adelson and others) Najnowsze dzieje Zydów w Polsce w zarysie, do 1950 roku (Holocaust history), Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (Warsaw, Poland), 1993.

(With Elzbieta Berus) Powstanie warszawskie w reportazach Jerzego Tomaszewskiego (history), 1994.

(Editor) Zydzi w obronie Rzeczypospolitej, Cyklady (Warsaw, Poland), 1996.

Czechoslowacja, Trio (Warsaw, Poland), 1997.

(With others) Studia z dziejów i kultury Zydów w Polsce po 1945 roku (immigration history), Trio (Warsaw, Poland), 1997.

Preludium zaglady: wygnanie Zydów polskich z Niemiec w 1938 (foreign relations), Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (Warsaw, Poland), 1998.

(Editor, with Jaroslav Valenta) Zidé v ceské obcanské spolecnosti: sborník prednásek (ethnic history), Vytiskl DeskTop Publishing (Praha, Poland), 1999.

(With Andrzej Chojnowski) Izrael, Trio (Warsaw, Poland), 2001.

(With Andrzej Zbikowski) Zydzi w Polsce: dzieje i kultura: leksykon (dictionary), Wydawnictwo Cyklady (Warsaw, Poland), 2001.

(Editor) 'Sladami Polin: studia z dziejów w Polsce (articles; in Polish and English), Wydawnictwo Cyklady (Warsaw, Poland), 2002.

Member of editorial board, of Kwartalnik Historii Zydow (Jewish history quarterly).

SIDELIGHTS: Educator, historian, and political journalist Jerzy Tomaszewski was born in 1930 in Radomsko, Poland. Associate professor, then professor at the University of Warsaw during the political upheaval of Poland, Tomaszewski sought through his writings to put social and political events into perspective for himself as well as his students. Two such works are The Polish Economy in the Twentieth Century and The Socialist Regimes of East Central Europe: Their Establishment and Consolidation, 1944–1967. He continues this work as a member of the editorial board for the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies' annual journal Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry.

The Polish Economy in the Twentieth Century was a collaboration with Zbigniew Landau. Ljubo Sirc, reviewing the volume in the Times Literary Supplement, stated that "the authors make it perfectly clear that the collapse of the Polish economy was not the consequence of an ordinary business cycle and was not imported from abroad, but was the product of a wrong economic policy." A reviewer in Foreign Affairs described The Socialist Regimes of East Central Europe as "a factual presentation of Eastern Europe's main political events." Carla Randolph, in Slavic Review, called the book "a comparativist's dream…. Tomaszewski has whetted our appetites for a comprehensive conclusion, one that would show the relevance of the period addressed in this work to events in the 1980s." Randolph noted that "the structure and format of this work are entirely usable."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Foreign Affairs, April, 1990, review of The Socialist Regimes of East Central Europe: Their Establishment and Consolidation, 1944–1967, p. 193.

Slavic Review, winter, 1992, Carla Randolph, review of The Socialist Regimes of East Central Europe, pp. 824-825.

Times Literary Supplement, July 12, 1985, Ljubo Sirc, review of The Polish Economy in the Twentieth Century, p. 766.