IN 1992 the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw organized the second competition of master's theses on Polish Jewish and Israeli subjects, this time also including doctoral theses; not many of the latter were submitted, although, according to available information, many more have been defended than were entered in the competition. Whereas 40 theses were submitted to the first competition in 1990, in 1992 there were 67 and the level was higher, which forced the jury to evaluate them in stages: 35 master's and 5 doctoral theses reached the second stage, and 12 master's and 5 doctoral theses reached the final stage. The choice of winners was extremely difficult. The jury was composed of Dr Alina Cala, the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH), Warsaw, (chairman); Eleonora Bergman, MA, ŻIH; Prof. Stanislaw Frybes, Department of Polish Philology, Warsaw University; Prof. Jakub Goldberg, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Prof. Daniel Grinberg, ŻIH; Jan Jagielski, MA, ŻIH; Prof. Aleksandra Jasińska-Kania, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University; Prof. Aleksander Lewin, Institute of Pedagogical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Prof. Irena Maciejewska, Institute of Polish Philology, Warsaw University; Prof. Jerzy Malinowski, Arts Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Prof. Szymon Rudnicki, Department of History, Warsaw University; Prof. Franciszek Ryszka, Department of Journalism and Social Studies, Warsaw University; and Prof. Jerzy Tomaszewski, Department of History, Warsaw University. It was decided to award two equal first, second, and third prizes, one special award, and five distinctions in the master's category, and three prizes and two distinctions in the doctoral category.

The awards reflect the level of the competition. They were funded by the Israeli Embassy in Poland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and Arts, the Mayor of Warsaw, the Polish Committee for UNESCO Affairs, the Stefan Batory Foundation, the ‘Shalom’ Foundation for the Promotion of Polish Jewish Culture, the Polish Council of Christians and Jews, and the Socio-Cultural Society of Jews in Poland.

The first prize in the doctoral category went to EUGENIA PROKOP-JANIEC's thesis, entitled ‘Polish Jewish Literature between the Two World Wars’, defended in 1990 at the Institute of Polish Philology, Jagiellonian University, under the direction of Prof.