Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born in 1962 in Warsaw, Poland) is an American historian specializing in East Central European history of the 19th and 20th century. His historical works include: After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Relations in the Wake of World War II (2003), and Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland (2004).
Life
He earned B.A. degree from the San Francisco State University in 1988, MPhil from Columbia University, and Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2001. His Ph.D. thesis was titled: Accommodation and Resistance: A Polish County Kraśnik during the Second World War and its Aftermath, 1939-1947. Between 2001 and 2003 he was an assistant professor with the Kościuszko Chair in Polish Studies at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. In 2003 Chodakiewicz was appointed Research Professor of History and in 2004 Professor of History at the Institute of World Politics[1] in Washington, DC, where he teaches and conducts research on East Central Europe and Russia. Since 2008, he has also held the Kościuszko Chair in Polish Studies at IWP. . Meanwhile, in April 2005, Chodakiewicz was appointed by President George W. Bush for a 5-year term to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. This appointment is somewhat controversial, because some prominent historians believe him to be anti-Semitic.[1] However, others view this as a classic case of character assassination. They point out that Chodakiewicz's research has seriously discredited mainstream academic opinion, which often fails to adhere to the empirical model and, instead, sometimes relies on post-modernist ideas. Thus, this ideologically motivated smear campaign against him is intended to silence and de-legitimize a bona fide scholar. Chodakiewicz has demonstrated that some scholarly and other accounts of anti-Jewish violence by Christian Poles during and after World War II are exaggerated or untrue, but he also uncovered and verified others, contextualizing them properly by carefully checking and cross checking the evidence.[2] Conservative commentators have immediately taken note of it.[3]
Chodakiewicz specializes in East Central European history of the 19th and 20th century including the history of Poland, Habsburg and Romanov Empires, Jewish-Polish relations, environmental politics, intellectual conservative tradition, and extremist movements, including communists and fascists. His special area of interest is World War II and its aftermath.
He lives in the United States.
Awards
- Richard Hofstadter Fellowship (1989-1994), Columbia University
- The Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Research Grant (2001)
- 2003 Józef Mackiewicz Literary Award
- The Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant (2004)
Publications
- The Last Rising in the Eastern Borderlands: The Ejszyszki Epilogue in its Historical Context, 2002.
- Restytucja: The Problems of Property Restitution in Poland (1939-2001). 2003.
- Dr. C Witnesses Triumph of Feudalism in Moscow, 2004.
- The Warsaw Uprising, 1944: Perceptions and Reality, 2004.
- The Dialectics of Pain: The Interrogation Methods of the Communist Secret Police in Poland, 1944-1955, 2004
- Poland Divided: Spatial Differences in the June 2003 EU Accession Referendum, 2005.
- Review of Sowjetische Partisanen in Weißrußland, Sarmatian Review, April 2006
Books
- 1996 [1995]: Ciemnogród? O Prawicy i Lewicy [Hicksville? On the Right and Left] Ronin Publishers, ISBN 83-86445-00-9 Template:Pl icon.
- 1997: Zagrabiona pamięć: Wojna w Hiszpanii, 1936-39 [Expropriated Memory: War in Spain], wyd. Fronda, ISBN 83-907210-2-4 Template:Pl icon.
- 1997-1999: Co-editor: Tajne Oblicze: Dokumenty GL-AL i PPR, 1942-1945 [Secret Face: Documents of the Communist underground], 3 vols. Burchard Edition, ISBN 83-87654-03-5 Template:Pl icon.
- 1994, 1999: Narodowe Siły Zbrojne: „Ząb” przeciw dwu wrogom [National Armed Forces: „Ząb” against two enemies], wyd. WAMA, 2nd. ed. Fronda, ISBN 83-911097-1-2 Template:Pl icon.
- 2000: Żydzi i Polacy 1918-1955: Współistnienie, Zagłada, Komunizm [Jews and Poles 1918-1955: Coexistence, Holocaust, Communism], wyd. Fronda, ISBN 83-912541-8-6 Template:Pl icon.
- 2002: Editor: Ejszyszki. Kulisy zajść w Ejszyszkach: Epilog stosunków polsko-żydowskich na Kresach, 1944-45: Wspomnienia-dokumenty-publicystyka [Ejszyszki: The Background to events in Ejszyszki: The Epilogue of Polish-Jewish relations in the Borderlands], wyd. Fronda, ISBN 83-911063-3-0 Template:Pl icon.
- 2003: Co-editor: Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Leopolis Press, ISBN 0-9679960-5-8.
- 2003: After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Relations in the Wake of World War II, East European Monographs, ISBN 0-88033-511-4.
- 2003: Co-editor: Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress, Leopolis Press, ISBN 0967996023
- 2004: Co-editor: Ronald Reagan: Moja wizja Ameryki [My vision of America], Wydawnictwo Arwil, ISBN 83-919221-5-4 Template:Pl icon.
- 2004: Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947, Lexington Books, ISBN 0-7391-0484-5.
- 2005: The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After, Columbia University Press and East European Monographs, ISBN 0-88033-554-8.
See also
References
- ^ Keller, Larry. 2009. “Night at the museum.” Intelligence Report. Winter, 18-21, http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1108.
- ^ Peter Stachura, History: The Journal of the Historical Association, issue 2, vol. 92, no. 306 (April 2007): 276-277; Juliana Pilon, "Hope Beyond Hatred," The American Enterprise, May 2006, 9; Janine P. Holc, The Slavic Review, no. 1, vol. 28 (Spring 2008): 202-203; Peter D. Stachura, History, vol. 89, issue 1, no. 293 (January 2003): 164; Katherine Jolluck, Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 9, no. 3 (Summer 2007): 201-203; Richard A. Leiby, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences (June 2005); R.W. Lemmons, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Librarie, vol. 42, no. 6 (February 2005); Peter Stachura, European History Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 2 (April 2006): 300-302; John Radzilowski, The Sarmatian Review (April 2004): 1053-1054; A. Ezergailis, Choice (January 2004): 968. Stachura wrote: "This judiciously balanced, richly informative and perceptive study -- a veritable tour de force -- is indubitably the most impressive scholarly contribution hitherto to an extremely important topic and deserves, therefore, the widest possible readership." Holc wrote: "Marek Jan Chodakiewicz offers us an in-depth, meticulously researched political history of the Polish town of Jedwabne." Pilon wrote: "[Chodakiewicz] hunted every available primary source, many previously unpublished.... (which, scandalously, have hardly been touched by most left-leaning Western scholars.) Jolluck wrote: "Chodakiewicz's study offers a much-needed piece of local history over an extended period and provides data and insights that can help us reach a deeper understanding of wartime Poland." Richard Leiby wrote: "The book's most valuable contribution to scholarship may well be its attempt to understand how the Poles dealt with foreign occupation in general.... Chodakiewicz's exhaustive research in the primary and secondary sources is admirable." R.W. Lemmons writes: "Recommended." John Radzilowski writes: "What Chodakiewicz does is greatly add to our picture of that complex period, showing how simplistic judgements about Polish behavior and motivations do not stand up to scrutiny." A. Ezergailis writes: "Recommended." The following endorsements appear on the dust jacket of Marek Jan Chodakiewicz's After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II (New York and Boulder, CO: East European Monographs and Columbia University Press, 2003): "Dr. Chodakiewicz brings clarity to an enormously complex moral and political problem that has cried out for this kind of rigorous analysis." - Kenneth W. Thompson, University of Virginia; "A well-written, balanced presentation of the Polish-Jewish conflict. Well worth reading not only by historians, but also by sociologists and psychologists." - M.K. Dziewanowski, Boston University & University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
- ^ Chris Roach, http://mansizedtarget.com/2009/12/15/splc-defames-marek-chodakiewicz/; http://cofcc.org/2009/12/radical-splc-campaigns-to-get-polish-catholic-fired-from-dc-holocaust-museum-board/.
External links
- After the Holocaust:Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II, The Sarmatian Review, January 2004 book review
- After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II book review
- Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947 book review
- Ordinary Terror: Communist and Nazi Occupation Policies in Jedwabne, 1939-1949 lecture
- The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After book review
- Whoever controls the past Discussion of Chodakiewicz' work in Haaretz.