Emanuel Ringelblum jako badacz historii warszawskich Żydów
Emanuel Ringelblum as a Student of History of Warsaw’s Jews

Summary/Abstract: Emanuel Ringelblum’s legacy as a co-author of the underground archives of the Warsaw ghetto overshadowed his prior accomplishments as a student of the history of the Jewish population of Poland over the ages, especially in Warsaw in the Old Polish period. His output includes several books and numerous popular-science and scientific articles dealing for the most part with Warsaw and Mazovian matters. Emanuel Ringelblum saw the need to present a picture of the history of Polish Jews and of Polish-Jewish relations in a manner free of unfounded generalizations and myths deeply rooted in Polish and Jewish consciousness as the overriding goal of his studies. In his opinion, the ignorance of both parties and especially the poor knowledge of the shared history was one of the reasons for the Polish-Jewish antagonisms. He firmly believed that historical studies should support the striving for social and national emancipation of the Jews and provide arguments for extending equal treatment to Jews and other citizens of the Republic of Poland

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