One of Many Untold Stories of Jewish Life in Polish Lands Before the Shoah

The example of Czesława Rosenblat’s (1877–1949) interesting biography is used to show alterations that could be made to the core exhibition of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The article seeks to answer the question why Jewish herstories are still not much commemorated at the Polin Museum, in spite of increasing research on women’s stories in Polish and Jewish historiography. Rosenblat’s biography serves as a means to show complex, non-obvious Polish-Jewish relations. The article reveals the fascinating biography of one of the Jewish women writers who chose Polish as their language of expression. Finally, it shows the complex intertwining of the Polish and Jewish cultures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.