Focusing on the Holocaust and its aftermath / edited by Antony Polonsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polonsky, Antony.

Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Oxford, England)

American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies.

Series:

Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

Polin, 0268-1056 ; v. 13.

Polin, 0268-1056 ; v. 13

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--History.

Jews.

Poland.

History.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Poland--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Poland--History--20th century.

Antisemitism--Poland.

Antisemitism.

Physical Description:

xx, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2000.

Contents:

Part I The Holocaust and its Aftermath

Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918-1939 and 1945-1947 / Joanna Michlic-Coren 34

Jewish Reaction to the Soviet Arrival in the Kresy in September 1939 / Andrzej Zbikowski 62

Reflections on Soviet Documents Relating to Polish Prisoners of War Taken in September 1939 / Simon Schochet 73

The Demography of Jews in Hiding in Warsaw, 1943-1945 / Gunnar S. Paulsson 78

Psychological Problems of Polish Jews who Used Aryan Documents / Maria Einhorn-Susulowska 104

My Two Mothers / Elzbieta Ficowska 112

Early Swedish Information about the Nazis' Mass Murder of the Jews / Jozef Lewandowski 113

Jewish Identities in the Holocaust: Martyrdom as a Representative Category / Jonathan Webber 128

Three Essays on Jewish Education during the Nazi Occupation / Marian Malowist 147

Two Coffins on Smocza Street and Sliska Street / Janusz Korczak 163

Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski: A Poet-Hero / Joanna Rostropowicz Clark 166

Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nalkowska's Medallions / Diana Kuprel 179

Letter to Father / Jan Ryszard Bychowski 188

Stereotypes of Polish

Jewish Relations after the War: The Special Commission of the Central Committee of Polish Jews / Jan Gross 194

The Bund and the Jewish Fraction of the Polish Workers' Party in Poland after 1945 / Bozena Szaynok 206

Whose Nation, Whose State? Working

Class Nationalism and Antisemitism in Poland, 1945-1947 / Padraic Kenney 224

Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom, April 1945-February 1946 / Adam Penkalla 236

Polish Jews during and after the Kielce Pogram: Reports from the Communist Archives / Joanna Michlic-Coren 253

Belzec / Rudolf Reder, translator's note by M. M. Rubel 268

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: From Commemoration to Education / Teresa Swiebocka 290

Part II A Debate About Antisemitism in Poland Today

Black is Black / Stanislaw Musial 303

A Rainbow in Black / Waldemar Chrostowski 310

The Sin of Antisemitism: A Response to Waldemar Chrostowski / Stanislaw Musial 317

Difficult Remarks to Write / Stanislaw Krajewski 323

A Shadow over the Dialogue / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska 325

Part III An Interview: Marian Malowist on History and Historians 331

Part IV New Views

The Day after the Pogrom: A Documentary Account / Jozef Bekker 347

Jewish Theatre in Poland before the Second World War: Its Audiences and its Critics / Maya Peretz 356

Forbidden Fruit: Illicit Love Affairs between Jews and Gentiles in the Novels of Julian Stryjkowski / Regina Grol 366

Ludwik Rajchman: A Biographical Sketch of a Polish Jew / Marta Aleksandra Balinska 373

Abraham Joshua Heschel in Poland: Hasidism Enters Modernity / Edward K. Kaplan 383

Recent Books on the Catholic Church in Poland / John T. Pawlikowski 401

'You shall not bear false witness': Stanislaw C. Napiorkowski (ed.), A blizniego swego ... Materialy z sympozjum 'Sw. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe

Zydzi

masoni' / Jerzy Tomaszewski 406

A Lithuanian Account of Life in the Camps: Balys Sruoga, Forest of the Gods: Memoirs / Nerijus Udrenas 411

Analyses of World Antisemitism Published between 1991 and 1997 / Alina Cala 418

Joseph Perl, Revealer of Secrets: The First Hebrew Novel, trans. and ed. Dov Taylor / Paul Radensky 425

Hanna Kozinska-Witt, Die Krakauer Judische Reformgemeinde, 1864-1874 / Andrzej Zbikowski 427

Emanuel Melzer, No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry, 1935-1939 / Jerzy Tomaszewski 431

Ezra Mendelsohn (ed.), Essential Papers on Jews and the Left / Jerzy Tomaszewski 433

David Weinfeld (ed.), Hebrew Poetry in Poland between the Two World Wars / David Aberbach 434

Wlodzimierz Mich, Obcy w polskim domu: nacjonalistyczne koncepcje rozwiazania problemu mniejszosci narodowych 1918-1939 / Joanna Michlic-Coren 436

Natan Gross, Toledot hakolnoa hayehudi befolin, 1910-1950 / Yaron Peleg 440

Robert Liberles, Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History / Ira Robinson 443

Michael C. Steinlauf, Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust / Jerzy Tomaszewski 444

Agata Tuszynska, Lost Landscapes: In Search of the Jews of Poland, trans. Madeline Levine / Ruth Abrams 446

Obituary: Teresa Prekerowa (1922-1998) / Gunnar S. Paulsson 450

Exchange between Rafal Zebrowski and Hanna Kozinska-Witt 453.

Notes:

"Published for The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and The American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1874774609

1874774471

OCLC:

45629058