Magdalena Waligórska is a cultural historian and sociologist working in the field of Jewish heritage revival, Polish/German-Jewish relations and cultural translation. She graduated from Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) and Dalarna University in Falun (Sweden). In 2009 she received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). She has co-edited Cultural Representations of Jewishness at the Turn of the 21st Century and published, among others, in Ethnomusicology, Jewish Cultural Studies and East European Politics and Societies. She is currently Assistant Professor of East European History and Culture, University of Bremen.