Anna Sommer Schneider is Associate Director and Associate Teaching Professor at the Center for Jewish Civilization, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She teaches classes on Holocaust, Holocaust and Gender and in the past on Jewish Civilization history of anti-Semitism. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She was teaching in the same department in the years 2007-2010. She is the author of She’erit Hapletah: Surviving Remnant. The Activities of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Poland, 1945-1989, 2014 (published in Polish) and co-author of Rescue, Relief and Renewal: 100 Years of the Joint in Poland, 2014. In 2014 she co-curated an exhibition of the same title. She is also the author of numerous scholarly and critical articles on Holocaust memory, the history of the Jews in post-World War II Poland and history of anti-Semitism, published both in Polish and English. Her most recent writings include The Survival of ‘Yiddishkeit’: Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee on Jewish Education in Poland, 1945-1989 in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 30. She served as a Research Assistant at the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and has lectured frequently in Poland and America. She also served as an educator and guide at the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim for twenty years (1998-2018).
Academic Appointment(s)
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- Associate Teaching Professor, SFS - Center for Jewish Civilization (CJC)