The weekly was launched on 7 February 2011 under the editorship of Paweł Lisicki. It was owned by Presspublica, which was bought by Polish businessman Grzegorz Hajdarowicz, months later.[1] Within a couple of months, Uważam Rze became the third most popular Polish weekly, behind Gość Niedzielny and Polityka.[2]
In April 2012, a monthly historical journal was launched — Uważam Rze Historia.[3] In late November 2012, Hajdarowicz fired Lisicki, spurring a mass-resignation including Waldemar Łysiak, Marek Magierowski, Robert Mazurek, Bronisław Wildstein, and others; Jan Piński became the new editor.[4] The last print-release was on 21 November 2016; it continued to be published on the web for a while.[5]
Reception
Joanna Michlic notes that Uważam Rze Historia served as one of the many venues where "right-wing ethno-nationalistic historians" promulgated an ahistorical view of Polish history esp. concerning Polish culpability in the Holocaust.[6][disputed – discuss]
^Lit. "I think, that. Written differently". "Rze", a misspelled form of Polish: Że ("that"), was a reference to the daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita, whose journalists launched the magazine.
^Michlic, Joanna Beata (2 September 2017). "'At the Crossroads': Jedwabne and Polish Historiography of the Holocaust". Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust. 31 (3): 302–303. doi:10.1080/23256249.2017.1376793. ISSN2325-6249.