Magdalena Dziaczkowska

Dr. Magdalena Dziaczkowska

Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
Magdalena Dziaczkowska

Magdalena Dziaczkowska is a Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. In June 2023, she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled "The Memory of Meanings: The Images of Jewish-Catholic Relations in Interwar Lublin in Oral Histories." The dissertation (available here), focuses on the competing narratives of Jewish-Catholic lived relations in the 1920s and 1930s. The methodological approach used combines oral history and Panofsky's iconology. Dziaczkowska has also published articles on Jewish-Catholic relations in the post-Nostra Aetate era and co-edited the volume "Jews in Dialogue" (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, March 17, 2020) together with Adele Valeria Messina.

She has taught courses on interreligious relations, primarily within the context of Abrahamic religions, theology of religions, and approaches to understanding the religious Other at Lund University, the University of Stellenbosch (Faculty of Theology), and the Swedish Institute of Jerusalem. During her doctoral education, she was a visiting research fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center (2019-2022) and a recipient of the Research Fellowship for Graduate Students in the History and Culture of Polish Jews at the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations (TAU) during the fall semester of 2021.

Dziaczkowska actively engages in interreligious dialogue and has been one of the Catholic delegates at the biannual Jewish-Catholic Emerging Leadership conferences organized by the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews at the Holy See and the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) since 2016.

Currently, she is working on a new project that examines intermarriage among Polish Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust. The project focuses on gendered experiences and the impact of intermarriage on intergroup relations under varying historical circumstances.