mariusz.kalczewiak[at]uwr.edu.p
Mariusz Kałczewiak is a historian of Jewish social and cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research focuses on the history of Jews in Eastern Europe and Latin America, historical migration studies, and historical gender studies.
His first book, “Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture,” analyzes the transnational dimension of Jewish migrations from Poland to Argentina in the interwar period. His second monograph, “Men of Valor and Anxiety: Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity,” examines Jewish masculinities in Polish lands at the beginning of the 20th century. “Men of Valor and Anxiety” reveals the processes of constructing and performing Jewish ideals of masculinity in various social contexts such as the army, student corporations, and yeshivas.
Kałczewiak is a member of the project “Discourses on Body in Jewish Culture in the Polish Lands between 1880 and 1918” carried out at the Taube Department of Jewish Studies.