Jerzy Jedlicki

Jerzy Jedlicki (born Jerzy Grossman 14 June 1930 in Warsaw – 31 January 2018 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian of ideas, Humanities Professor and an anti-communist activist during the times of the Polish People's Republic.

Life and work Born into an assimilated Jewish family, he graduated in sociology from the University of Warsaw in 1952. In 1989, he was granted the title of a Humanities Professor. He worked at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He specialized in the history of the culture of the 18th-20th centuries as well as social history. He was also a member of the Warsaw-based Collegium Invisibile. Since 1948, he was a member of the Union of Youth Struggle and later the Polish Youth Union (ZMP). Between 1952 and 1968 he was a member of the communist Polish United Workers' Party (Polish: Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR) which he left as a sign of protest against the so-called March events of 1968. He was the only member of the Institute of History of PAN who decided to resign from the membership of the ruling communist party in Poland at that time. He took part in the discussions at the Crooked Circle Club and was a signatory of the 101 Memorial, an initiative of Polish intellectuals aimed against changes to the Constitution of Poland of 1952. Since 1977, he dealt with organizing meetings of the Flying…Citește mai mult

Selected publications Klejnot i bariery społeczne: przeobrażenia szlachectwa polskiego w schyłkowym okresie feudalizmu, Warsaw 1968 Jakiej cywilizacji Polacy potrzebują: studia z dziejów idei i wyobraźni XIX wieku, PWN, Warsaw 1988 Źle urodzeni, czyli o doświadczeniu historycznym, Aneks, London 1993 Świat zwyrodniały. Lęki i wyroki krytyków nowoczesności, Sic!, Warsaw 2000 Błędne koło 1832–1864, (collaborative work: Dzieje inteligencji polskiej do roku 1918), Institute of History PAN, Warsaw 2008

Solidarity movement Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science