Mariusz Kalczewiak ist Professor für Jüdische Studien an der Universität Luzern, Schweiz.

Er ist Historiker der modernen jüdischen Geschichte in Osteuropa und Lateinamerika mit den Forschungsschwerpunkten jüdische Migrationen und historische Geschlechterstudien. Er ist Autor von zwei Monografien: Polacos in Argentina. Polish Jews, Interwar Migrations and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press, 2020) und Men of Valor. Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity (Indiana University Press, 2025). Vor seinem Ruf nach Luzern war Mariusz Kalczewiak an den Universitäten in Potsdam, Wrocław, Los Angeles und Warschau tätig.

Mariusz Kalczewiak is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

He is a historian of modern Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Latin America, specializing in Jewish migration and historical gender studies. He is the author of two monographs: Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migrations, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press, 2020) and Men of Valor: Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity (Indiana University Press, 2025). Before joining the University of Lucerne, Mariusz held academic appointments at universities in Potsdam, Wrocław, Los Angeles, and Warsaw.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• moderne jüdische Geschichte in Osteuropa und Lateinamerika
• Geschichte der jüdischen Migrationen
• historische Gender Studies

Publications 

Books

1. Monograph: Men of Valor and Anxiety: Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity. Indiana University Press, 2025.
2. Monograph Polacos in Argentina. Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture. Alabama University Press, 2020. Winner of the 2020 Best Book Award of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association
3. Monograph Judíos polacos transatlánticos. Migración entreguerras a Argentina y surgimiento de una cultura transnacional (Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata EDULP, 2022).
4. The World beyond the West: Perspectives from Eastern Europe. Volume co-edited with Magdalena Kozłowska, Berghahn Books (New York), 2022

 Peer-reviewed articles

1. “It is a high time to move up the helmet visor! Public Opinion, Homosexual Subjectivities and Poland’s 1930s Homosexual Debate, under review with Gender&History.
2. “Impaired Providers and Weakened Protectors: Negotiating Jewish Masculinities in Occupied Warsaw (1939-1942),” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, forthcoming in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
3. Law as Jewish Defense Weapon. Emil Sommerstein and the Jewish Struggle for Dignity in Interwar Poland,” Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, forthcoming 2025.
4. “But Everyone Rides! Jews of Warsaw and Buenos Aires and the Public Transport” in Mobility and Visibility. Jews and the Public Transport (Sde Boker: Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism, 2025). Forthcoming in Hebrew.
5. “Jewish, Masculine and Professional. Intersections of Profession and Masculinity in Yoshue Perle’s Novellas Gelt and Nayn a zeyger inderfri.” European Journal of Jewish Studies 17 (2023): 1-23.
6. “When the “Ostjuden” Returned: The Linguistic Continuities in German-language Writing about East European Jews,” Neharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History 15,2 (2021): 287-309.
7. “Yiddish Buenos Aires and the Struggle to Leave the Margins,” in East European Jewish Affairs, special volume “Jews and the City” 50, 1/2 (2020): 115-133
8. “Dorfisze jidn. Wieś w twórczości Pereca Hirszbejna,” (Dorphishe Yidn. Village in the Oeuvre of Perets Hirshbeyn) in Kwartalnik Historii Żydów (Jewish History Quarterly, Warsaw) 273, 1 (2020): 69-89
9. “Yiddish at the Andes. Unbearable Distance, Devoted Activists and Building Yiddish Culture in Chile,” Jewish Culture and History 20, 4 (2019): 297-316
10. “Anticolonial Orientalism: Perets Hirshbeyn´s Yiddish Indian Travelogue,” In Geveb. A Journal of Yiddish Studies (July 2019)
11. “We Hope to Find a Way Out from Our Unpleasant Situation - Polish-Jewish Refugees, Latin America and Escaping the Nazi Europe” – American Jewish History 103,1 (2019): 25-49
12. “Seen from Warsaw: Poland’s Yiddish Press Reporting on Jewish Life in Argentina,” Studia Judaica 17, 1 (2014): 85-107
13. “Izraelskie Prawo Małżeńskie. Wybrane zagadnienia” (Israeli Marriage Law. Selected Aspects), Przegląd Prawa Wyznaniowego (Review of Confessional Law) 4 (2012): 87-109