Ph.D. Aleksandra Oniszczuk
Biography
I graduated in History from the University of Warsaw (2010, prima cum laude) and in Law from the University of Wrocław (2013). Additionally, I completed a broad university course in Jewish Studies at the Centre for Jewish Languages and Culture, University of Wrocław (2013). My PhD thesis in History, defended at the University of Wrocław in 2016, focused on the policy of the Duchy of Warsaw towards the Jewish population. From 2011 to 2015, I was a member of the History Laboratory at the Institute of Educational Research in Warsaw, where I worked on the historical competencies of primary and secondary school students. I undertook research stays at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (funded by DAAD), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Université de Strasbourg (funded by the French Government), Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin (funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange), and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg in Münster (funded by Universität Münster). Research interests: social and cultural history, legal history, history of Jews, deaf history, disability history, history didactics
Most important publications
Most important scholarly articles
Oniszczuk, ‘The Old Privileges and the New Spirit of Law: Jewish Residential Areas in the Duchy of Warsaw’, Studia Judaica, vol. 45 (2020), pp. 43–74
Oniszczuk, ‘Public Administration and the Challenge to Introduce Egalitarian Legal Order: The Jewish policy of the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815)’, Administory. Journal for the History of Public Administration / Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 5 (2020), pp. 20–38
Oniszczuk, ‘Narracje o pogromie w Kaliszu (1878)’ [Narratives on the pogrom in Kalisz], in: K. Kijek, A. Markowski, K. Zieliński (Eds.), Pogromy Żydów na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku, vol. 2: Studia przypadków (do 1939 r.) [Pogroms of Jews in the Polish lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, vol. 2: Case studies], Warszawa 2019, pp. 49–65
Oniszczuk, ‘Doświadczenia Księstwa Warszawskiego w zakresie edukacji prawniczej’ [Experience of the Duchy of Warsaw in the field of legal education], Krytyka Prawa, vol. 3 (2016), pp. 67–90
Oniszczuk, ‘The Jews in the Duchy of Warsaw: The Question of Equal Rights in Administrative Theory and Practice’, in: G. Dynner, A. Polonsky, M. Wodziński (Eds.), Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 27, Oxford–Portland 2015, pp. 63–87
‘Polityka publiczna wobec osób z niepełnosprawnościami w Królestwie Polskim (1815–1914)’ [Public policies towards People with Disabilities in the Kingdom of Poland],
Public Policy Studies, 10 (4), 2023, pp. 89–107(with Maria Antosik-Piela) ‘Marginalised Within a Minority: Jews with Disabilities in the Jewish Press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s–1914)’, Medical History, 68/1 (2024), pp. 60–85
