FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 21, 2014
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DR. DARIUSZ STOLA APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS
Warsaw, Poland--On January 17, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski announced the appointment of Dr. Dariusz Stola as the new director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw.
Dr. Dariusz Stola is a historian, professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and fellow at the Center for Migration Research, Warsaw University. He has published nine books and more than a hundred articles on international migrations in the 20th century, the communist regime in Poland, Polish-Jewish relations and the Holocaust, as well as on Polish debates about these pasts. His book A Country with No Exit? Migrations from Poland, 1949-1989 received Poland’s most prestigious book of the year award in history and is the first comprehensive monograph of international mobility from a communist country.
Hon. Consul Tad Taube, Distinguished Benefactor of the Museum and Chairman of Taube Philanthropies, stated: "I congratulate Dr. Stola on his appointment as Museum director. His scholarship is world-renowned and his vision for the Museum is impressive. I and the Taube and Koret Foundations look forward to welcoming him to the San Francisco Bay Area when he visits this April." Dr. Stola will lecture at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley during the first week of April.
Dr. Stola, who begins his new position on March 1, will guide the Museum to its Grand Opening in September 2014. The Museum held its soft opening on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, 2013, and has since received more than 200,000 visitors. These visitors have enjoyed two temporary exhibitions, viewed the centerpiece of the Core Exhibition, a close-to-scale replica of a 17th-century wooden synagogue, and taken part in hundreds of educational and cultural events.
A special press conference will be held at the Museum on February 5, where journalists can view completed sections of the 8-gallery Core Exhibition. For more information about the Museum as it approaches its Grand Opening, please visit: http://jewishmuseum.org.pl/en
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