11 Facts About Antony Polonsky

Antony Polonsky is the author of many historical works on the Holocaust, and is an expert on Polish Jewish history.

Antony Polonsky was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents who arrived in South Africa in the late 19th century.

Antony Polonsky's father was from a Yiddish speaking family from near Grodno and his mother was from a Russified Jewish family from Lithuania.

Antony Polonsky became a lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics in 1970, and was appointed as professor in 1989.

Antony Polonsky decided to take early retirement and seek a new position.

Antony Polonsky has served as a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw, the Institute for the Human Sciences, Vienna and the University of Cape Town; he has been a visiting fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Antony Polonsky has played a leading role in setting up the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies in Oxford, and served for six years on the Board of Deputies of British Jews, including membership of the Yad Vashem Memorial Committee.

Antony Polonsky spent time at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College, London, and is an Associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Antony Polonsky is the founder and general editor of Polin.

In 2011, Antony Polonsky was awarded the Kulczycki Book Prize by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for Volumes I and II of The Jews in Poland and Russia.

Timothy Snyder, reviewing Volume Three of The Jews in Poland and Russia in The Wall Street Journal, praises the book but suggests that Antony Polonsky could have made a stronger link between imperial Russia and modern German anti-Semitism.