Effects of School of Dialogue now in a PhD dissertation! We are very proud that our flagship educational program aimed at fighting prejudice and preserving Jewish heritage in Poland has been the basis for a thesis entitled “The influence of contact with a multicultural past on intergroup attitudes and civic engagement” defended by Anna Stefaniak at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw yesterday. The dissertation shows how attitudes towards others change once students are exposed to information about the past multicultural environment of their town or village. The contemporary homogenous communities give little opportunity to encounter the other, which may foster xenophobic attitudes, but learning about the local Jewish heritage and the ethnic and cultural diversity of a given area makes these students more open to difference. Dr. Stefaniak received a distinction for the dissertation and defense.