Taking debates on the historiography of Quebec as the base of his considerations, the Author presents various reflections and postulates concerning comparative historiography. In particular His attention is drawn to the various types and aspects of historical identity. The awareness of those is necessary for the correct comparative analysis.

The article presents the roots of contemporary Jewish-Polish relations in Poland. The Author analyses various phenomena and processes, leading to initiation of the Polish-Jewish dialogue in the years 1979- -1997, as well as evaluates the mutual relations between the two social groups in the turn of 1980s to 1990s.

The Author presents several methodological aspects referring to photographs as historical sources. In this article it is viewed as an iconographic source. The problem of photographs as iconographic sources is discussed in the context of historical semantics and theory of historical presence.

The integration of chaos theory and history has been an issue ofmany scientific discussions, but failed to produce any results. Author reexamines the discussions, mathematical features of the theory and claims that proposed ways of integration couldn't have been used practically. Author asks if such integration is possible and i fit can have any intrinsic value for advancement of historical knowledge. Proposed solution is to use chaos theory as a tool, which enables historians to analyze causal relations in the past.

The author in the terms of idealisation theory of science explicates two visions of history represented by positivism (Hempel) and narrativism (White) and paraphrases some paradoxes of historical narrative elaborated by mentioned-above representatives of these standpoints what is argument for the unity of science presupposed by idealisational theory of science.

The paper depicts some negative consequences of the attempts of history comprehension. In the light of the settlements of the contemporary psychology such attempts lead to the biases in historical cognition results.

The article is a review of the book by Krzysztof Brzechczyn, On the Multitude of the Lines of Development in the Historical Process. An Attempt at Interpretation of Evolution of Mexican Society, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2004, ss. 341.

This text describes the contemporary teoretical refelection on the place of ethics in historical discourse. It is focused on considering the effect of arguments of ethical tum in humanities on the debate concern with historical representations of Shoah.