Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Born	1962 Warsaw, Poland
Occupation	Writer, academic
Nationality	Polish-American
Citizenship	American
Genre	World War II history

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born in 1962 in Warsaw, Poland) historian specializing in East Central European history of the 19th and 20th century. Chodakiewicz lives in the Greater Washington, DC area. Chodkiewicz as historian engaged in disputes over interpreation of history of Second World War and has been accussed of being involved with right scene in Poland by some political activists and historians.

Academic career

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz earned B.A. degree from the San Francisco State University in 1988, M.Phil. from Columbia University, and Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2001. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled: Accommodation and Resistance: A Polish County Kraśnik during the Second World War and its Aftermath, 1939-1947. Between 2001 and 2003 Chodakiewicz was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville as the holder of the Kościuszko Chair in Polish Studies of the Miller Center of Public Affairs. In 2003, Chodakiewicz was appointed Research Professor of History and in 2004 Professor of History at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, where he teaches and conducts research on East Central Europe and Russia. His expert areas include History, Democracy Building, Communism, American Foreign Policy and International Relations. Since 2008, he has also held the Kościuszko Chair in Polish Studies at IWP. Chodakiewicz has also served as Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Patrick Henry College since 2008.

In April 2005, Chodakiewicz was appointed by President George W. Bush for a 5-year term to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Controversy erupted towards the end of his term over Chodakiewicz's claims in several publications that Polish nationalists who murdered Jews after the Holocaust, in events such as the Kielce pogrom, were not motivated by Antisemitism. Chodakiewicz appointment was criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which noted publications by Chodakiewicz in far-right Polish publications. Historian Jan T. Gross said that "The guy is an ideologist of the radical right, I don't have any doubts that he's anti-Semitic." While Polish-Canadian historian Piotr Wróbel said that "he would never use a phrase or adjective that would clearly identify him as an anti-Semite", but "There is no doubt whatsoever that he doesn't like the Jews.". Chodakiewicz rejected the allegations as "baseless", and his term on the council ended in 2010.

Chodakiewicz specializes in East Central European history of the 19th and 20th century including the history of Poland, Habsburg and Romanov Empires, Jewish-Polish relations, environmental politics, intellectual conservative tradition, and extremist movements including Communism and Fascism. His special area of interest is World War II and its aftermath. In 2003 Chodakiewicz received the Jozef Mackiewicz Literary Prize in Warsaw for his two-volume book of history entitled Ejszyszki.

Chodakiewicz's wrote a few books in response to works by Jan T. Gross. His approach to the Holocaust has been criticized by Joanna B. Michlic a professor of Polish-Jewish history at Lehigh University as attempting to show only a "good past".

Political activism

In 2014, Chodakiewicz spoke at a rally of the Ruch Narodowy party, saying "We want a Catholic Poland, not a Bolshevik one, not multicultural or gay!".

According to Hope not Hate, Chodakiewicz is a frequent commentator on right wing Polish media.

In January 2017, Chodakiewicz wrote a column in which he described an on-going genocide against whites by blacks in South Africa.

In July 2017, Chodakiewicz helped draft US President Donald Trump's speech delivered at Warsaw Uprising Monument, and traveled with the Presidential delegation.

Publications

• The Last Rising in the Eastern Borderlands: The Ejszyszki Epilogue in its Historical Context, 2002.
• Restytucja: The Problems of Property Restitution in Poland (1939-2001). 2003.
• Dr. C Witnesses Triumph of Feudalism in Moscow, 2004.
• The Warsaw Uprising, 1944: Perceptions and Reality, 2004.
• The Dialectics of Pain: The Interrogation Methods of the Communist Secret Police in Poland, 1944-1955, 2004
• Poland Divided: Spatial Differences in the June 2003 EU Accession Referendum, 2005.
• Review of Sowjetische Partisanen in Weißrußland, Sarmatian Review, April 2006

Books

• 1996 [1995]: Ciemnogród? O Prawicy i Lewicy [Hicksville? On the Right and Left] Ronin Publishers, ISBN 83-86445-00-9 Template:Pl icon.
• 1997: Zagrabiona pamięć: Wojna w Hiszpanii, 1936-39 [Expropriated Memory: War in Spain], wyd. Fronda, ISBN 83-907210-2-4 Template:Pl icon.
• 1997-1999: Co-editor: Tajne Oblicze: Dokumenty GL-AL i PPR, 1942-1945 [Secret Face: Documents of the Communist underground], 3 vols. Burchard Edition, ISBN 83-87654-03-5 Template:Pl icon.
• 1994, 1999: Narodowe Siły Zbrojne: „Ząb” przeciw dwu wrogom [National Armed Forces: „Ząb” against two enemies], wyd. WAMA, 2nd. ed. Fronda, ISBN 83-911097-1-2 Template:Pl icon.
• 2000: Żydzi i Polacy 1918-1955: Współistnienie, Zagłada, Komunizm [Jews and Poles 1918-1955: Coexistence, Holocaust, Communism], wyd. Fronda, ISBN 83-912541-8-6 Template:Pl icon.
• 2002: Editor: Ejszyszki. Kulisy zajść w Ejszyszkach: Epilog stosunków polsko-żydowskich na Kresach, 1944-45: Wspomnienia-dokumenty-publicystyka [Ejszyszki: The Background to events in Ejszyszki: The Epilogue of Polish-Jewish relations in the Borderlands], wyd. Fronda, ISBN 83-911063-3-0 Template:Pl icon.
• 2003: Co-editor: Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Leopolis Press, ISBN 0-9679960-5-8.
• 2003: After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Relations in the Wake of World War II, East European Monographs, ISBN 0-88033-511-4.
• 2003: Co-editor: Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress, Leopolis Press, ISBN 0-9679960-2-3
• 2004: Co-editor: Ronald Reagan: Moja wizja Ameryki [My vision of America], Wydawnictwo Arwil, ISBN 83-919221-5-4 Template:Pl icon.
• 2004: Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947, Lexington Books, ISBN 0-7391-0484-5.
• 2005: The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After, Columbia University Press and East European Monographs, ISBN 0-88033-554-8.
• 2010: Co-editor, with Wojciech Jerzy Muszyński, Żeby Polska była polska: Antologia publicystyki konspiracyjnej podziemia narodowego 1939 – 1950 [So That Poland Remains Polish: An Anthology of the Polish Nationalist Underground Press] (Warsaw: IPN, 2010), ISBN 9788376292120.
• 2011: Co-editor, with Wojciech Jerzy Muszyński, Złote serca czy złote żniwa. Studia nad wojennymi losami Polaków i Żydów [Hearts of Gold or a Golden Harvest? Studies on the Wartime Fate of Poles and Jews] (Warsaw: The Facto, 2011), ISBN 9788361808053.
• 2012: Co-editor, with Wojciech Jerzy Muszynski and Pawel Styrna, Golden Harvest or Hearts of Gold? Studies on the Fate of Wartime Poles and Jews (Washington, DC: Leopolis Press), ISBN 0-9824888-1-5.
• 2012: Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers), ISBN 978-1412847742.

Awards

• Richard Hofstadter Fellowship (1989-1994), Columbia University
• The Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Research Grant (2001)
• 2003 Józef Mackiewicz Literary Award
• The Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant (2004)

See also

• List of Poles

External links

• After the Holocaust:Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II, The Sarmatian Review, January 2004 book review
• After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II book review
• Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947 book review
• Ordinary Terror: Communist and Nazi Occupation Policies in Jedwabne, 1939-1949 lecture
• The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After book review
• Whoever controls the past Discussion of Chodakiewicz' work in Haaretz.