Joanna Wiszniewicz is a Polish language writer and a researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Her writing is devoted to Polish Jews, with a special stress on their identity. Her first book, "From Poland to Israel" was devoted to the identity of the representatives of the first post-war generation of Polish Jews who after anti-Semitic campaign of March '68 emigrated to Israel. Her second book "Yet I Sometimes Have Dreams. A Story of a Certain Loneliness Told to Joanna Wiszniewicz" received honorable mention at the Literary Competition of Culture Foundation in Poland. This book is a subtle auto-analysis provided by the assimilated and secular Polish Jew who grew up at a pre-war Jewish Family in Warsaw, matured in Warsaw Ghetto and in some Nazis Camps and who after the WWII emigrated to the United States.
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