Midrasz is a Polish language

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 monthly journal founded in 1997 by Konstanty Gebert

Konstanty Gebert

Konstanty Gebert is a Polish journalist and a Jewish activist, as well as one of the most notable war correspondents of various Polish daily newspapers and son of Bolesław Gebert....

, a renown Polish journalist, war correspondent and Polish-Jewish activist. The journal is devoted to Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish culture, art, literature, history and religion, as well as contemporary matters. Midrasz also publishes book review

Book review

A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is analyzed based on content, style, and merit. A book review could be a primary source opinion piece, summary review or scholarly review. It is often carried out in periodicals, as school work, or on the internet. Reviews are also often...

s and longer essay

Essay

An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...

s on a regular basis. Regular contributors include Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported...

, Wilhelm Dichter

Wilhelm Dichter

Wilhelm Dichter is a Polish-Jewish writer who has written three literary novels which are roman a clefs based on his own life. He was born in 1935 in Boryslav , where he survived the war. His father had died, and he and his mother came to live in Poland toward the end of 1944...

, Henryk Grynberg

Henryk Grynberg

Henryk Grynberg is a Polish-Jewish writer and actor who survived the Nazi occupation. He was an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and essayist who had authored more than thirty books of prose and poetry and two dramas...

, Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Cracow, Poland after her Jewish parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Ukraine. In 1959, during the Cold War, the thirteen years old Eva, her nine years old sister "Alinka" and her parents immigrated to Vancouver,...

, Hanna Krall

Hanna Krall

Hanna Krall is a Polish writer.-Childhood:Krall is of Jewish origin. During World War II she lost some of her close relatives. She survived the war only because she was hidden from the Nazis.-Journalism:...

, Maria Janion

Maria Janion

Maria Janion is a Polish scholar, critic and theoretician of literature as well as a renowned feminist. She is a Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, specialising in literary Romanticism.Janion is also a member of the Polish Academy of Learning. She...

, Krystyna Kersten

Krystyna Kersten

Krystyna Kersten was a Polish historian and a professor at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Fellow of Collegium Invisibile. Born in Poznań May 25, 1931 as Krystyna Goławska, she graduated from the faculty of history of the Warsaw University...

, Jerzy Tomaszewski

Jerzy Tomaszewski (historian)

Jerzy Tomaszewski is a Polish political scientist and historian. Former employee of the Warsaw University of Life Science, professor of the Warsaw University...

 and Jan Woleński

Jan Wolenski

Jan Woleński , born on , Polish philosopher. He is currently Professor of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University ; he graduated both in philosophy and law, attaining his doctorate and "habilitation" in jurisprudence. He belongs to the tradition of analytic philosophy, and considers himself...

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