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Covered with Letters You Can't Understand: Censorship of Jewish Topics in Post-1968 Communist Poland

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Marcin Wodzinski, Director of the Centre for the Culture and Languages of the Jews at University of Wrocław, describes the effect of Communist censors on public knowledge of Jewish culture in post-1968 Poland.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marcin Wodzinski.

This excerpt is in English.

Marcin Wodzinski was born in Swidnicy, Poland in 1966.