The Interwar Jewish space in Łódź, Poland
The project addresses research of Jewish urban space in Interwar Łódź, Poland.
Unlike Warsaw, which suffered much destruction during WWII, archival material concerning the lives of Jewish inhabitants of industrial Łódź, is almost intact. The material is scanned in the National Archive in Łódź and in other archives and libraries. The material holds spatial information as an address and telephone book from 1939, taxpaying lists of the Jewish community from 1917 until 1939 and a list of voters for the Jewish community in 1924.
Digital tools allow the implementation of data into statistical research and most importantly the mapping of the Jewish space in Interwar Łódź. The Jewish space in Interwar Łódź can virtually come to life.
Our Team
Ruth Kaplan - Head Of The Project
Doctoral student in the Department of Israeli History at the University of Haifa, under the supervision of Prof. Marcus Zilber.
Ruth is an architect, holds a master's degree in urban design from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and is a graduate of the Azrieli Fellows Program.
Her research deals with Jewish urban space in Lodz, Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries, while dealing with urban geography and the experience of space, Jewish urbanity, and the place of Jews in the city of Eastern European industry.
Ruth published her research at conferences in Europe and Israel and in the exhibition "The Promised Land - The Daily Life of the Jews in Lodz, 1939-1820" at the University of Haifa
