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Alina Ca a Knutr Benoit

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alina Ca a (born 1953) is a Polish writer, historian and sociologist. An associate professor (adiunkt) of the Jewish Historical Institute, she specialises in the history of 19th and 20th century Polish-Jewish history, antisemitism and Jewish assimilation in Central and Eastern Europe. After 1976 Alina Ca a was a collaborator of the Workers' Defence Committee and Committee for Social Self-defence KOR. In the 1980s she also co-founded the folk high school in Zbrosza Du a, perhaps the first institution for adult education independent from the communist authorities since the end of World War II. After 1989 she has been a feminist and pro-choice activist. She collaborates with the Greens 2004 party. As a historian, Alina Ca a focuses mostly on Polish-Jewish relations in the last two centuries. Among her most important works is the Assimilation of Jews in the Kingdom of Poland (1864-1897) (published in 1989). Her most cited work is The Image of the Jew in Polish Folk Culture (1st edition 1987), since then also published in English. In recent years she published a variety of historical books on modern Polish-Jewish history.