Type | Monthly magazine |
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Format | Berliner |
Founder(s) | Konstanty Gebert |
Publisher | Stowarzyszenie "Midrasz" |
Editor-in-chief | Piotr Paziński |
Founded | 1 April 1997 |
Language | Polish |
Headquarters | Warsaw |
Circulation | 2500 |
ISSN | 1428-121X |
Website | midrasz.pl |
Midrasz (Hebrew: מדרש) is a Polish language monthly journal founded in 1997 by Konstanty Gebert, a renowned Polish journalist, war correspondent and Polish-Jewish activist. The journal is devoted to Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish culture, art, literature, history and religion, as well as contemporary matters. Midrasz also publishes book reviews and longer essays on a regular basis.
Regular contributors include Zygmunt Bauman, Wilhelm Dichter, Henryk Grynberg, Eva Hoffman, Hanna Krall, Maria Janion, Krystyna Kersten, Jerzy Tomaszewski and Jan Woleński.
Approximately 80% of the readers of Midrasz are educated people between the age of 20 and 40; roughly 40% of the readers are Catholics, 25% are atheists and 15% are Jews.