Alumni

Sofia Shahpari Jachimczyk

Graduated in 2021, Hebrew language teacher at LamaLo Hebrajski and Kierunek Wschód, graduated from the “Roots of Totalitarianism in the 20th Century: Auschwitz – Holocaust – Genocides” postgraduate studies.

Diana Dudko

Graduated in 2017, Hebrew language teacher at Lauder-Morasha Private Elementary School.

Wiktor Gębski

Graduated in 2017, Doctor of Humanities (Cambridge), translator and linguist.

Aleksandra Jakubczak

Graduated in 2016, Doctor of History (Columbia), researcher of Eastern European Jewish history and translator, historian at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

Mateusz Majman

Graduated in 2015, Doctor of History (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), currently on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yad Yitzhak Ben-Cwi Research Institute in Jerusalem.

Małgorzata Lipska

Graduated in 2012, Doctor of Humanities (UW), translator, literary scholar, theater scholar, deputy head of the UWr Department of Judaic Studies for teaching and student affairs.

Agnieszka Podpora

Graduated in 2011, Doctor of Humanities (UW), translator, assistant professor at the Center for Translation Studies at Jagiellonian University.

Anna Klingofer-Szostakowska

Graduated in 2010, author of more than one hundred and fifty translations from English and Hebrew, two-time winner of the Magazyn Literacki KSIĄŻKI award, member of the board of directors of the Eastern Branch of the Association of Literary Translators (president of the OW STL in 2020-2023).

Wojciech Tworek

Graduated in 2009, Doctor of Humanities (UCL), Head of the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław.

Witold Wrzosiński

Graduated in 2007, genealogist, guide, translator, cultural and social activist, director of the Jewish Cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw, creator of the Foundation for the Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries, member of the board of directors of the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw and member of the board of directors of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland.

Marta Katarzyna Kacprzak

Graduated in 2006, Doctor of Humanities (UW), sworn translator of Spanish, lecturer at the Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies UW and researcher of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino).

Magdalena Sommer

Translator of Hebrew literature, conference and audiovisual interpreter, Hebrew language speaker, author of the Kol Iwrit podcast:

Łukasz Kalużny

Graduated in 2014, Hebrew language teacher at the Prof. M. Schorr Foundation and the UW School of Foreign Languages. Runs the UniVersa Language Center, where he promotes the study of Modern and Biblical Hebrew. A doctoral student at the UW Doctoral School of Humanities, he conducts research on Judeo-Italian languages and dialects.

Agnieszka Olek

Graduated in 2006, translator of Hebrew literature, especially Israeli drama.