Czy w międzywojennej Polsce można było nauczyć się języka perskiego?
Was It Possible to Learn Persian in the Interwar Poland?

Author(s): Stanisław Jaśkowski
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: education; Iranian-Polish relations; Iranian Studies; History of the University of Warsaw
Summary/Abstract: The present paper seeks to ascertain whether it was possible to learn Persian in Poland in the period between the First and the Second World War. Given the influx of Polish refugees to Iran from the early spring of 1942, this question is important not only for the history of Iranian and Persian studies in Poland, but can also grant us a deeper understanding of the condition of the refugees. The subject is analyzed on the basis of Iranian diplomatic reports from Poland discussing the teaching of Persian, especially in Warsaw; in the present work, one such document has also been edited and translated. Furthermore, documents and reports kept at the Archive of the University of Warsaw have also been among the sources used in the present research. As it turns out, the teaching of Persian in the interwar period was very limited in Poland. This was both due to internal causes, especially the shortage of academic staff fluent in Persian, and to the limited support of the Iranian establishment, even in the face of the Iranian representative’s enthusiasm for broader academic cooperation.

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