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Jan T. Gross

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Jan Tomasz Gross (born 1947) is a Polish-American sociologist and historian. He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society emeritus and professor of history emeritus at Princeton University. Gross is the author of several books on Polish history, particularly Polish-Jewish relations during World War II and the Holocaust, including Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (2001); Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz (2006); and, with Irena Grudzinska Gross, Golden Harvest (2012). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan T. Gross is the 387th most popular historian (down from 367th in 2019), the 942nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 910th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jan T. Gross ranks 387 out of 561. Before him are Peter Gay, Heinrich Gelzer, Ernest Labrousse, Fritz Stern, Cadmus of Miletus, and Domenico Losurdo. After him are Ronald Syme, Ehsan Yarshater, Zhao Rukuo, Olena Apanovych, Joan Wallach Scott, and Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Jan T. Gross ranks 480. Before him are Sylvester, David Mamet, Maurizio Micheli, David Chiang, Robert Hays, and Juliet Berto. After him are Michèle Torr, Richard Lewis, Erik Olin Wright, Candy Clark, Liu Yunshan, and Lee Kerslake.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan T. Gross ranks 942 out of 1,694. Before him are Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925), Adam Zamenhof (1888), Michalina Wisłocka (1921), Janusz Kamiński (1959), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), and Adam Asnyk (1838). After him are Bolesław Leśmian (1877), Paweł Mąciwoda (1967), Frederick Jagiellon (1468), O. E. Hasse (1903), Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886), and Paul Gordan (1837).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Jan T. Gross ranks 15. Before him are Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Israel Gutman (1923), Jacob Talmon (1916), and Fritz Stern (1926). After him are Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), Albrecht Weber (1825), Benjamin Mazar (1906), and Janusz Kurtyka (1960).

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