Przedstawiono analizę funkcjonowania żydowskich domów modlitwy w XIX i XX w. Badania objęły obiekty, które znajdowały się na terenach wchodzących współcześnie w skład województwa śląskiego. Na podstawie zgromadzonych ...

In the past two years, the European continent has become the target of mass migration of various ethnic and religious groups who, for reasons of security or economic hardship, have decided to leave their homelands and go ...

Muslim community in Poland, in terms of their population, is much smaller than in most of the Western European countries. Demographic potential determines the strength of their political and cultural influence – which in ...

The turbulent political history of the lands included in the modern Silesian voivodeship and the development of numerous, especially in the nineteenth century, Jewish communities in these areas, prompted the author to ...

Professor Koter has raised a new generation of scholars: he was thesis promoter of five doctoral students (three in political geography, one in historical geography, one in social geography). Increase in staff allowed ...

At its outset, although Polish Protestantism gained big popularity, it did not manage to cover a broad social scope. It gained members mainly among the nobility and wealthy bourgeoisie. Cieszyn Silesia region was an exception ...

1. Apart from Finnish-Russian border, Polish eastern border is one of the longest external European Union and Schengen Agreement land borders under the control of a single country. 2. For the last few years, Polish ...

The problem raised in the title involves a general truth that present forms of statehood – independent nations – are viewed from a historical perspective. We look to past times for factors indicating the future in respect ...

The national and religious borderland in Podlasie is a zone with many transitory areas where different national, religious, linguistic and cultural groups overlap. There are hardly any clear dividing lines separating ...