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He emigrated to Israel ; three years later he moved to the United Kingdom.

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He resided in England from , where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds , later emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist , writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust , postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity. He took part in the Battle of Kolberg and the Battle of Berlin.

In an interview with The Guardian , Bauman confirmed he had been a committed Communist during and after World War II and had never made a secret of it. He admitted that joining the military intelligence service at age 19 was a mistake although he had a "dull" desk job and did not remember informing on anyone. In , Bauman, already in the rank of major, was suddenly dishonourably discharged, after his father had approached the Israeli embassy in Warsaw with a view to emigrating to Israel.

As Bauman did not share his father's Zionist tendencies and was indeed strongly anti-Zionist, his dismissal caused a severe, though temporary estrangement from his father. During the period of unemployment that followed, he completed his M. While at the London School of Economics , where his supervisor was Robert McKenzie , he prepared a comprehensive study on the British socialist movement, his first major book.

Published originally in Polish in , a revised edition appeared in English in Initially, Bauman remained close to orthodox Marxist doctrine, but, influenced by Georg Simmel and Antonio Gramsci , he became increasingly critical of Poland's Communist government. Owing to this he was never awarded a professorship even after he completed his habilitation.

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The Polish political crisis culminated in a purge that drove many remaining Communist Poles of Jewish descent out of the country, including those intellectuals who had fallen from grace with the Communist government. He had to give up Polish citizenship to be allowed to leave the country. In , he went to Israel to teach at Tel Aviv University.

In , he moved to Great Britain , where he accepted the chair of sociology at the University of Leeds.