Joshua D. Zimmerman
Eli and Diana Borowski Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History at Yeshiva University and author of the biography Jozef Piłsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland (Harvard UP, 2022).
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Feb 11, 2026 • 1h 38min
Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Joshua D. Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Borowski Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History at Yeshiva University, offers a concise biography of Józef Piłsudski. He traces Piłsudski’s ideological complexity and multinational roots. Conversations cover Piłsudski’s military strategies, his stance toward Jews and minorities, the 1926 turn to authoritarianism, and lessons for Ukraine and deterrence today.
