The beginning of the academic year 2012/2013 marked a new stage in the development of Jewish studies at the Jagiellonian University. On 1 October 2012 the Department of Jewish Studies became a larger JU unit - Institute of Jewish Studies - and at the same time the Jagiellonian University opened new pioneering programmes for undergraduate and graduate students: Jewish Studies (in Polish Judaistyka). Interview with Prof. Edward Dabrowa, the head of the JU Institute of Jewish Studies/