Michael C. Steinlauf is an Associate Professor of History at Gratz College

Gratz College

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. Steinlauf teaches Jewish history and culture in Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

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 and Polish-Jewish relations. He is the author and editor focused on studies of Jewish popular culture in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. His work has been translated into Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

, Hebrew, German

German language

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 and Italian

Italian language

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. He is currently the senior historical advisor and member of the planning committee of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, soon to open in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

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Publications

• "Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage." American Jewish History, July 31, 2005
• Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture in Poland and Its Afterlife. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry (16), Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. ISBN 1874774749. 628 pages
• Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust. Syracuse University Press
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  , 1997. ISBN 0815627297. 189 pages.
• "Poland." In: David S. Wyman, Charles H. Rosenzveig. The World Reacts to the Holocaust. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8018-4969-1. Between pages 81 and 155
• "Beyond the evil empire: Freedom to remember or freedom to forget?" Sol Feinstone, 1991