Polish Studies: Websites

Interface for searching a number of digital libraries in Poland, powered by Europeana.

Information about books in the national library. Some material can be digitized upon request.

Catalogue of the collections of academic Polish libraries. In Polish.

Digital library created by the National Library of Poland. Interface available in English, most sources in Polish.

Contains a museum, History of the Holocaust, Memorial, podcast, educational conference, laboratory, and Visitors Center.

The Galicia Jewish Museum exists to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish Galicia, presenting Jewish history from a new perspective. The objectives of the Museum are to challenge the stereotypes and misconceptions typically associated with the Jewish past in Poland and to educate both Poles and Jews about their own histories, whilst encouraging them to think about the future.

Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw is the only museum institution in Poland dedicated entirely to the history of architecture and contemporary architecture. The institution is organized by the Municipality of Wroclaw. Museum carries out programs andevents for architects, historians and the general public. It preparesexhibitions on architecture, applied art, painting and graphics.

We want to create a community of descendants of the Warsaw Insurgents, which undertakes the "generational relay" - guardians of the memories, dreams and values ​​passed on by the insurgents.

Study the city's architecture and everyday life, the creativity and lifestyle of its people, local businesses, and historic events through our items, texts and dictionary entries.

The National Museum in Warsaw was originally founded in 1862 as the Museum of Fine Arts and is currently one of the oldest art museums in the country. After Poland regained its independence in 1918, the National Museum was ascribed a prominent role in the plans for the new state and its capital city of Warsaw, and the Modernist building in which it currently resides was erected in 1927–1938. Today, the National Museum in Warsaw boasts a collection numbering around 830,000 works of art from Poland and abroad, from ancient times to the present including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, coins, as well as utilitarian objects and design.

Primary professional organization for the study of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. Organizes annual conference and offers generous research and study funding.

H-Net community focusing on the study of Poland. H-Net's Network on the history, culture, art, politics, economics, and society of Poland.

fosters social awareness by popularising and promoting architectural and urban design culture through exhibitions, education and publishing. It also works towards preservation of the national architectural heritage, carries out research on architecture, urban design and master planning, and disseminates knowledge about these fields.

The Polish Studies Association (PSA) is an organization of scholars, publishers, librarians, archivists, and journalists who specialize in the history, culture, art, politics, economics, and society of Poland.

JCC Warsaw is a safe, caring, people-driven and inclusive space which brings together community members and newcomers interested in exploring, defining and redefining diverse Jewish identities through informal Jewish education and Jewish culture

The mission of the Jewish Historical Institute is to spread knowledge about the heritage of the thousand years of Jewish presence on the Polish lands.

Provides context and research tools for researching American Polish diaspora

This website for Jewish genealogy features tools for genealogical research, databases, tutorials, and ways of getting in touch with other researchers. Affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.

An oral history collection by Centropa, a Vienna and Budapest-based non-profit NGO that uses advanced technologies to preserve Jewish memory. The database includes transcriptions and translations of over 1000 interviews with Jews still living in the 15 countries between the Baltic and the Aegean about their lives, including experiences of the Holocaust. Also features family photographs. The organization has also published a number of books based on their interviews.

A project initiated by Uriel Weinreich at Columbia University in the 1950s. Includes 5,000 hours of recorded testimony in Yiddish about Ashkenazic society in Europe. The archive is an attempt at reconstructing the historical Yiddish language and culture area after it was dislocated and its home territory destroyed. Website in Yiddish and English.

Poetry in Hell is a web site dedicated to the poets, both in the Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere whose poetry, under the leadership of Emanuel Ringelblum, was secretly collected by the members of the “Oneg Shabbat Society“, preserved and buried in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

An internet project that seeks to create a portal and social forum for those interested in Polish-Jewish life. Specifically the site puts great focus on gathering information on Polish towns and the history and contributions of past Jewish residents.

Program that allows language learning through interactive stories and videos. Available in Russian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, and Ukrainian.

Polish Idiom Compared: Not My Circus Not My Monkeys | Easy Polish 139

Resource listing all forms of Polish words.