A new archival inquiry within the EHRI project!

We are pleased to present the next stage of research devoted to an outstanding figure in Polish-Jewish historiography.

The archival inquiry was designed to fill the gaps in our knowledge of the early biography of Artur (Aron) Eisenbach, former director of the Jewish Historical Institute and a respected historian of nineteenth-century Jewry. Although professionally associated with Warsaw, it was in Kraków that he spent his formative years, which he devoted to self-education. The culmination of these efforts was the completion of his secondary school-leaving examination in 1931 and the commencement of studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University. Documents relating to Eisenbach’s studies make it possible to reconstruct his early intellectual interests and provide material for analyzing the prewar intellectual influences on his later scholarly work.

The research conducted has contributed to a deeper understanding of his biography within the framework of the EHRI programme.