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In a 2016 interview to ''[[Nasz Dziennik]],'' a clerical daily newspaper, Żaryn stated that calls of the [[Committee for the Defence of Democracy]] (KOD) to engage in massive [[civil disobedience]] were tantamount to advocating overturn of the Polish state and were approaching dangerously towards the betrayal of the national interests.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-12-07|title=Stary układ trzęsie się w posadach|url=https://naszdziennik.pl/polska-kraj/171881,stary-uklad-trzesie-sie-w-posadach.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-07|website=Nasz Dziennik|language=pl}}</ref>
In a 2016 interview to ''[[Nasz Dziennik]],'' a clerical daily newspaper, Żaryn stated that calls of the [[Committee for the Defence of Democracy]] (KOD) to engage in massive [[civil disobedience]] were tantamount to advocating overturn of the Polish state and were approaching dangerously towards the betrayal of the national interests.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-12-07|title=Stary układ trzęsie się w posadach|url=https://naszdziennik.pl/polska-kraj/171881,stary-uklad-trzesie-sie-w-posadach.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-07|website=Nasz Dziennik|language=pl}}</ref>


Jan Żaryn is also known for his outspoken views on the interaction between Jews and other nationalities. Żaryn assigns the blame for the [[Jedwabne pogrom]] on Germans, arguing that Germans were provoking Poles to commit the crime and that the Nazis were acting behind the scenes and commanded the people who murdered Jews.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-09-15|title=Prof. Jan Żaryn: Niemcy byli "reżyserami" pogromów takich jak w Jedwabnem|url=https://dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/prof-jan-zaryn-niemcy-byli-rezyserami-pogromow-takich-jak-w-jedwabnem|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-07|website=dzieje.pl|language=pl}}</ref> A controversy arose when Żaryn proposed to adopt a resolution for the anniversary of [[1968 Polish political crisis|March 1968 political crisis]], an excerpt from which read: ''the communist government, by arranging anti-Semitic demonstrations and forcing Poles to take part in them, and also by introducing pathological anti-Jewish sentiments into public discourse, did not represent the will of the People, but only of [[Moscow]] and its intra-communist and international interests,'' which has been criticised by some historians including {{Interlanguage link|Piotr Osęka|lt=Piotr Osęka|pl}} and [[Jacek Leociak]] from the [[Polish Center for Holocaust Research]] as an attempt of [[Whitewashing (censorship)|whitewashing]] Polish history.<ref name=":11" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-02-27|title=Senator Żaryn autorem uchwały, która ma zostać przyjęta w rocznicę Marca'68. Czeka nas kolejny skandal?|url=https://www.newsweek.pl/polska/polityka/czy-polska-istniala-w-1968-roku-to-nie-my-nas-nie-bylo/00vp4fn|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-07|website=Newsweek.pl|language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Dobrosz-Oracz|first=Justyna|date=2018-03-02|title=Jan Żaryn o swojej kontrowersyjnej uchwale. W 68' nie istniało państwo polskie?|url=https://wyborcza.pl/10,152484,23092966,jan-zaryn-o-swojej-kontrowersyjnej-uchwale-w-68-nie-istnialo.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-07|website=[[Gazeta Wyborcza]]|language=pl}}</ref>
Jan Żaryn is also known for his outspoken views on the interaction between Jews and other nationalities. Żaryn assigns the blame for the [[Jedwabne pogrom]] on Germans, arguing that Germans were provoking Poles to commit the crime and that the Nazis were acting behind the scenes and commanded the people who murdered Jews.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-09-15|title=Prof. Jan Żaryn: Niemcy byli "reżyserami" pogromów takich jak w Jedwabnem|url=https://dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/prof-jan-zaryn-niemcy-byli-rezyserami-pogromow-takich-jak-w-jedwabnem|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-07|website=dzieje.pl|language=pl}}</ref>


Less than two weeks later, a scandal erupted when [[Anna Azari]], Israel's ambassador to Poland, stated that the March 1968 crisis occurred only in Poland, to which Żaryn retorted: ''If anyone will be thinking today that the government of Law and Justice in any way alludes to the Jewish [[chutzpah]] that was orchestrated by the [[Polish United Workers' Party|party organs]] in 1968, that is, by [[Mieczysław Moczar|Moczarites]], I will for sure never give my hand for a handshake. If an ambassador of a foreign country does so, [we] may have to ask this lady to leave this country.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Polish senator suggests expelling Israeli envoy for linking ruling party to 1968 purge of Jews|url=https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/polish-senator-suggests-expelling-israeli-envoy-for-68-purge-remarks-1.5889384|access-date=2021-06-07|website=Haaretz.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=News|first=Polsat|title=Żaryn o wypowiedzi ambasador Izraela: może trzeba poprosić tę panią, by opuściła to państwo - Polsat News|url=https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2018-03-09/zaryn-o-wypowiedzi-ambasador-izraela-moze-trzeba-poprosic-te-pania-by-opuscila-to-panstwo/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=polsatnews.pl|language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Hartman|first=Jan|author-link=Jan Hartman (philosopher)|date=2018-03-09|title=Skandaliczne słowa prof. Żaryna o ambasador Izraela|url=https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1741106,1,skandaliczne-slowa-prof-zaryna-o-ambasador-izraela.read|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.polityka.pl|language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Zdecydowane słowa prof. Żaryna dla wPolsce.pl o wypowiedzi ambasador Azari: "Może trzeba poprosić tę panią, by opuściła to państwo"|url=https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/385150-zdecydowane-slowa-prof-zaryna-dla-wpolscepl-o-wypowiedzi-ambasador-azari-moze-trzeba-poprosic-te-pania-by-opuscila-to-panstwo|access-date=2021-06-07|website=wpolityce.pl}}</ref>
Less than two weeks later, a scandal erupted when [[Anna Azari]], Israel's ambassador to Poland, stated that the March 1968 crisis occurred only in Poland, to which Żaryn retorted: ''If anyone will be thinking today that the government of Law and Justice in any way alludes to the Jewish [[chutzpah]] that was orchestrated by the [[Polish United Workers' Party|party organs]] in 1968, that is, by [[Mieczysław Moczar|Moczarites]], I will for sure never give my hand for a handshake. If an ambassador of a foreign country does so, [we] may have to ask this lady to leave this country.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Polish senator suggests expelling Israeli envoy for linking ruling party to 1968 purge of Jews|url=https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/polish-senator-suggests-expelling-israeli-envoy-for-68-purge-remarks-1.5889384|access-date=2021-06-07|website=Haaretz.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=News|first=Polsat|title=Żaryn o wypowiedzi ambasador Izraela: może trzeba poprosić tę panią, by opuściła to państwo - Polsat News|url=https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2018-03-09/zaryn-o-wypowiedzi-ambasador-izraela-moze-trzeba-poprosic-te-pania-by-opuscila-to-panstwo/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=polsatnews.pl|language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Hartman|first=Jan|author-link=Jan Hartman (philosopher)|date=2018-03-09|title=Skandaliczne słowa prof. Żaryna o ambasador Izraela|url=https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1741106,1,skandaliczne-slowa-prof-zaryna-o-ambasador-izraela.read|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.polityka.pl|language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Zdecydowane słowa prof. Żaryna dla wPolsce.pl o wypowiedzi ambasador Azari: "Może trzeba poprosić tę panią, by opuściła to państwo"|url=https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/385150-zdecydowane-slowa-prof-zaryna-dla-wpolscepl-o-wypowiedzi-ambasador-azari-moze-trzeba-poprosic-te-pania-by-opuscila-to-panstwo|access-date=2021-06-07|website=wpolityce.pl}}</ref>

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Jan Żaryn
Jan Żaryn's official Senate portrait, 2015
Senator for the 40th district
In office
12 Novermber 2015 – 11 November 2019
Preceded byAnna Aksamit [pl]
Succeeded byJolanta Hibner
Personal details
Born
Jan Krzysztof Żaryn

13 March 1958
Warsaw, Poland
Political partyIndependent[1]
SpouseMałgorzata Żaryn
Children3
Parent(s)Stanisław Żaryn, Aleksandra Żaryn (née Jankowska)
EducationUniversity of Warsaw (master's degree); Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences (PhD, habilitation)
OccupationHistorian, professor, politician
Websitehttp://janzaryn.pl/

Jan Krzysztof Żaryn (born 13 March 1958[2]) is a Polish historian, professor and politician, who was a Senator in the Senate of Poland from 2015 to 2019.

Born in Warsaw into a family of intellectuals, Żaryn studied history at the University of Warsaw in 1979-1984, where he engaged with anti-Communist movements and an underground education society. Following an incident with the Citizen's Militia officers, he was briefly detained by the Security Service (Służba Bezpieczeństwa) in late 1982.[2][3] After finishing his studies, he taught history before first enrolling, and then joining the Polish Academy of Science in 1997. There, he continued his scientific career, earning a doctorate in 1996 and a habilitation in 2004;[4] he was later awarded the title of professor by President Bronisław Komorowski in 2013.[5]

Żaryn has worked on senior positions in the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, and, from its creation in 2020, he has been directing the Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski Institute for Legacy of Polish National Thought [pl].[6] Żaryn specialises in the history of the Catholic Church, nationalist-conservative movements and Polish-Jewish relations in twentieth-century Poland, as well as in the history of post-war Polish emigration.[6][7] His views and commentaries, however, have sparked significant controversy.

Affiliated with the conservative Law and Justice party (though formally not being its member), Żaryn ran unsuccessfully for Senator in 2011, but managed to win a seat in 2015 elections. He served one term until 2019, when he was defeated.[8] Żaryn is married and has three children.

Early life

Jan Żaryn was born on 13 March 1958 in Warsaw as the youngest of five children.[9] His father, Stanisław Żaryn, was one of the more prominent architects in post-war Poland,[10] while his mother Aleksandra [pl] was a lawyer and a translator.

Having finished the XV Narcyza Żmichowska general education liceum in Warsaw in late 1970s, he then enrolled in the University of Warsaw, participating at the same time at the lectures of the Towarzystwo Kursów Naukowych [pl],[2] an organisation that sought to break the monopoly of education by the state. He also belonged to the Young Poland Movement (Polish: Ruch Młodej Polski),[11][12] a group of conservative students opposing the Communist regime, and, additionally, in 1980-1984, to the students' union of the University of Warsaw.[13] At the same time, he dismissed the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) and the Independent Students' Association (NZS) as factions in an internecine fight of the communists, and opined that the only organisation that could be trusted was the Catholic Church;[9][14] despite that, he cooperated with the anti-Communist opposition and joined the Solidarity movement in 1989.[15]

On 10 November 1982, during martial law in Poland, Jan Żaryn was arrested during a demonstration, allegedly because of "shouting enemy slogans and pelting stones at vehicles";[2][3] after spending a month in a prison in the Warsaw district of Białołęka, he was set free. Finally, in spring 1983, Żaryn was cleared by the District Court of Warsaw of all charges related to the incident.[11]

He finished his master's degree in 1984, specialising in archival science, and also passed pedagogy courses a year later,[13] teaching in various schools in Warsaw until 1990.[11]

Żaryn started to engage with the Catholic Church from a very young age - at the age of 6, Żaryn started helping the clergy of the St. Alexander's Church as an altar boy.[11] Already a young adult, he, with his wife, have joined the Christian Culture Studio, organised by the Saint Trinity Church in Warsaw. In 1989, he has co-founded the Catholic Tutors' Association [pl], and has over the Warsaw branch of the organisation in the 1990s.[11]

Scholarly career

In mid-1990s, Żaryn continued to pursue his career as a historian. In 1996, he defended his doctoral thesis in the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences,[4] which he joins the following year.[13] He also wrote his habilitation thesis there in 2004 before quitting the institute two years later[4].

In 2000, Żaryn became employed in the Bureau of Public Education of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), of which he was director from January 2006 until April 2009.[7] He was then appointed as an advisor to the director of the Institute, Janusz Kurtyka,[16] until the latter died in the Smolensk air disaster.

He sat on scientific boards of some historical societies, such as the Society of Soldiers of the National Armed Forces [pl][8], the Committee for Commemoration of Poles Rescuing Jews (which he heads since 2004),[17] and became a co-founder of the Foundation of the "Cursed Soldiers"[18], and a member of the program council of the Foundation Work of the New Millenium,[19] among others. Since 2018, Żaryn is a member of the board of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk[20][21], while two years later, he joined that of the Museum of the Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of People's Republic of Poland.[22] Also since 2020, he heads the Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski Institute for Legacy of Polish National Thought, a newly created institute by the Polish Ministry of Culture.[6][23]

Żaryn is a lecturer at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University since 2000, where serves as director of the Department of the History of the Church[24]; he also used to work at the University of Warsaw in 2003-2006.

Publishing

Żaryn has published in conservative and Catholic media outlets, such as Przegląd Katolicki [pl], Ład [pl], Gazeta Niedzielna, Gazeta Polska, Gazeta Polska Codziennie, Więź [pl], W Sieci, WPolityce.pl [pl], and Arcana [pl]. In late 1990s, he has also been an editor-in-chief of Szaniec Chrobrego. a publication for the veterans of the National Armed Forces.[8] Since 2012, he presided over the editorial board of Na poważnie, a historical monthly magazine,[25] which was reorganised as W Sieci Historii [pl] the following year, where he also serves as editor-in-chief.[26]

Electoral career

Jan Żaryn made three attempts to get into national politics. First, in 1993, he placed his bid for a member of Sejm seat as a protégé of Wojciech Ziembiński [pl], but lost.[11] He then made three attempts to win a Senate seat - in 2011, 2015 and 2019 - but only got there in 2015, when the Law and Justice party has won by a landslide.[27] He has also headed an organisation called Polska Jest Najważniejsza, a political action committee for the election of Jarosław Kaczyński, since 2011, of which he was a member before that promotion.[28]

2011 Senate election: 85th district (Iława)[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PO Stanisław Gorczyca 33,627 35.70 -
PSL Piotr Żuchowski [pl] 24,121 25.61 -
PiS Jan Żaryn 18,700 19.85 -
Democratic Left Alliance Jan Nosewicz 12,767 13.55 -
Independent Wincenty Szarmach 4,975 5.28 -
2015 Senate election: 40th district (Legionowo)[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PiS Jan Żaryn[31] 119,870 52.78 -
PO Anna Aksamit 107,238 47.22 -
2019 Senate election: 40th district (Legionowo)[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PO Jolanta Hibner[33] 146,318 51.52 +4,30
PiS Jan Żaryn[34] 137,574 48.48 -4,30

Views and controversy

In the late 1990s, Żaryn was assigned a task by the Polish Information Agency [pl] to write a concise history of Poland that could be translated in several languages and distributed at the Polish embassies. However, a public outcry followed when it appeared that Żaryn expressed what some considered fringe views on the contemporary history of Poland. For instance, Żaryn argued that the Polish Round Table Agreement had been a sort of a conspiracy and that the government of Jan Olszewski had been overthrown in a coup d'état. While the book was published in Polish, its English translation has been called off.[9][14][35]

In a 2009 interview to TOK FM, Żaryn accused Lech Wałęsa, the leader of the opposition Solidarity movement in the 1980s, of having perjured to the court in order to illegally obtain the status of a person repressed by the communist government.[7][36][37] For these remarks, he lost his job as the director of the Bureau of Public Education at the IPN. Żaryn later reiterated his view that Lech Wałęsa collaborated with the communist Security Service in 1970s.[38]

In a 2016 interview to Nasz Dziennik, a clerical daily newspaper, Żaryn stated that calls of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (KOD) to engage in massive civil disobedience were tantamount to advocating overturn of the Polish state and were approaching dangerously towards the betrayal of the national interests.[39]

Jan Żaryn is also known for his outspoken views on the interaction between Jews and other nationalities. Żaryn assigns the blame for the Jedwabne pogrom on Germans, arguing that Germans were provoking Poles to commit the crime and that the Nazis were acting behind the scenes and commanded the people who murdered Jews.[40]

Less than two weeks later, a scandal erupted when Anna Azari, Israel's ambassador to Poland, stated that the March 1968 crisis occurred only in Poland, to which Żaryn retorted: If anyone will be thinking today that the government of Law and Justice in any way alludes to the Jewish chutzpah that was orchestrated by the party organs in 1968, that is, by Moczarites, I will for sure never give my hand for a handshake. If an ambassador of a foreign country does so, [we] may have to ask this lady to leave this country.[41][42][43][44]

Jan Żaryn does not consider the National Radical Camp (ONR) a fascist entity and believes that the organisation was wrongfully banned before the war. In an ongoing court proceeding in Kraków, he submitted testimony in which he argued against delegalisation of ONR, even as two other documents have voiced support for banning the organisation.[45][46][47]

Personal life

He is married with Małgorzata, whom Jan Żaryn met in high school and who also became a historian.[9] They have three children: Anna, Stanisław and Krzysztof.[11]

Awards

In 2005, Żaryn received the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis from the Minister of Culture.[48] Additionally, in 2009, President Lech Kaczyński bestowed upon Żaryn the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, for his "extraordinary achievements in documenting and commemorating the truth about the contemporary history of Poland".[49] In 2013, his successor, Bronisław Komorowski, awarded him with the title of professor of historical sciences.[5]

Historiography

  • Głębokie. Historia i zabytki [Hlybokaye. History and monuments]. (co-authored with Małgorzata Żaryn), 1992.
  • Historia Polski do roku 1795 [History of Poland until 1795]. (co-authored with Alicja Dybkowska), 1995.
  • Stosunki między władzą państwową a Kościołem katolickim w Polsce w latach 1945-1950 (Relations between the government and the Catholic Church in Poland in 1945-1950), doctoral thesis, 1996.
  • Polskie dzieje od czasów najdawniejszych do współczesności [Polish history from the oldest times to contemporaneity]. (co-authored with Alicja Dybkowska and Małgorzata Żaryn), 1995.
  • Kościół a władza w Polsce. 1945–1950 [The Church and the government of Poland. 1945-1950], 1997.
  • Stolica Apostolska wobec Polski i Polaków w latach 1944–1958 w świetle materiałów ambasady RP przy Watykanie. Wybór dokumentów, [The Holy See's relations with Poland and Poles in 1944-1958 in light of the materials of the Polish Embassy in Vatican. Selected documents.] 1998.
  • Leszek Prorok – człowiek i twórca [Leszek Prorok - personality and creator], 1999.
  • Kościół w Polsce w latach przełomu (1953–1958). Relacje ambasadora RP przy Stolicy Apostolskiej [The Church in Poland in the years of change (1953-1958). Accounts of the ambassador of Poland at the Holy See], 2000.
  • Dzieje Kościoła katolickiego w Polsce (1944–1989), [The history of the Catholic Church in Poland (1944-1989)]. Habilitation thesis, 2003.
  • Kościół w PRL [The Church in the People's Republic of Poland], 2004.
  • Kościół, naród, człowiek, czyli opowieść optymistyczna o Polakach w XX wieku [The Church, the people and the person, or an optimist story about Poles in the 20th century], 2013.
  • Polska na poważnie [Poland seriously], 2013.
  • Polska pamięć. O historii i polityce historycznej, [Polish remembrance. On history and the politics of memory], 2017.
  • Polska wobec zagłady Żydów [Poland in face of the Holocaust], 2019.

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