Introductory Comments

The thematic block of the 14th issue of Colloquia Humanistica (2025) is entitled Commemoration of Jewish Culture, Tradition and Heritage Outside Western Europe. The Discussions. Presentations. Book Reviews section complements this subject matter, as it contains an article in which Jolanta Sujecka discusses Jewish sites of memory on the examples of Sofia, Kielce and Warsaw, Muhammad Muhammad’s paper on the perception of Jews in the Qur’an, but also Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s text on the memory of the Jews from Pomerania, Nourit Melcer-Padon’s presentation of an Italian monograph by Benedetto Ligorio, and Katarzyna Taczyńska’s review of an anthology of Polish Yiddish women poets translated from Polish into Serbian. An article by Teresa Dobrzyńska outlines the Slavic Comparative Metrics programme, headed by Lucylla Pszczołowska, at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Literary Research.