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Professor Andrzej Żbikowski holds a position of professor at the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw. He leads research on the recent history of Polish Jews at the Jewish Historical Institute. In 1993, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on “Jews of Kraków and their community 1869-1919” at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw. In 2006, he defended his extended Ph.D. (habilitacja) on the topic “U genezy Jedwabnego: Żydzi na Kresach Północno-Wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej: wrzesień 1939-lipiec 1941 (The Origins of Jedwabne. Jews in the North-eastern Borderlands of the Second Republic: September 1939-July 1941). In 2013, he was granted the title of professor by the President of Poland. He completed scholarships and fellowships at Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research in Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig, and the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah in Paris. Since 1985, he has been working at the Jewish Historical Institute, where he held the position of Vice-Director for Science, Education and Publication (2007-2008). He was also professor at the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities and chief expert at the Office of Public Education of the Institute of National Remembrance. He is a member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research.