​COMPETITION FOR WOLF AND DORA RAJCHER PRIZE


Before World War II, one of Poland's largest Jewish communities lived in Czestochowa. Its members played a crucial role in the political, economic and cultural life of the city. To remember Jewish citizens of Czestochowa, victims of the cruelty of the Holocaust, and cherish their contribution and legacy, as well as to support research into the history of this community, Professor Anna Wypych-Gawrońska - Rector of Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa is pleased to announce a competition for the Wolf & Dora Rajcher Memorial Academic Prize for the best work on the history of Jewish community of Częstochowa and its region. The competition is addressed to JDU academics, students, doctoral candidates, graduates and all those from the outside of the JDU community interested in the issue at hand. All the submitted works are to have been published or prepared for printing in the year of the competition.

Andrew Rajcher is a founder of the Wolf & Dora Rajcher Memorial Academic Prize, an award funded in memory of his late parents Wolf Rajcher (died on 13 November 1996) and Dora Rajcher (died on 21 April 2017) who spent their youth in Czestochowa and survived the most tragic period in the modern history of the Jewish people - the Holocaust.

The winner of the competition for the Wolf & Dora Rajcher Memorial Academic Prize will be decided by the Jury appointed by the Rector on request of the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities composed of:
- Professor Jerzy Mizgalski, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chair of Security Science
- Professor Dr. Janusz Spyra, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of History
- Professor Dr. Dariusz Złotkowski, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of History

Works can be submitted (in paper and/or electronic version on a CD in a generally available computer format) in the Office of the Faculty of Humanities (Armii Krajowej 36a in Czestochowa) by February 25, 2020.