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Jozef Pilsudski

Founding Father of Modern Poland

Joshua D. Zimmerman

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HARDCOVER

$39.95 • £34.95 • €36.95

ISBN 9780674984271

Publication Date: 06/28/2022

640 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

42 photos, 1 illus., 8 maps

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Joshua D. Zimmerman is the author of several books, including The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945, and has written for the Washington Post, Politico, the Kyiv Post, Engelsberg Ideas, and the Times of Israel. He is Eli and Diana Zborowski Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History and Professor of History at Yeshiva University.

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Read a Tocqueville 21 Q&A with Joshua Zimmerman
Listen to Professor Zimmerman discuss Jozef Pilsudski as “two entirely different men” on the podcast Historically Thinking
Listen to Zimmerman discuss Pilsudski at length on the podcast History Hack’s four-episode “Pole Position” series: Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV
On Wolne Radio Europa, watch Zimmerman discuss Jozef Pilsudski with Polish politician Radosław Sikorski [in English]
Listen to Zimmerman discuss Jozef Pilsudski on Radio Poland’s Q&A [in English]
Read a Gazeta Wyborcza interview with Zimmerman [in Polish]
At a November 2022 event hosted by the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America, watch Zimmerman place the military and political leader within modern European history as “a statesman with a broad vision”
At the Daily Beast, read Zimmerman on how Ukrainian history contradicts Vladimir Putin’s lies
At the Washington Post, read Zimmerman on Pilsudski’s support for Ukrainian independence in 1920
At the Daily Beast, read Zimmerman’s argument that when facing genocidal leaders, tepid “appeasement” strategies have proven disastrous over and over again—only resolute force is successful

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