Contested memories : Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and its aftermath / edited by Joshua D. Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zimmerman, Joshua D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion.

Public opinion--Poland.

Public opinion.

Poland--Ethnic relations.

Poland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few issues have divided Poles and Jews more deeply than the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War and the subsequent slaughter of almost ninety percent of Polish Jewry. Many Jewish historians have argued that, during the occupation, Poles at best displayed indifference to the fate of the Jews and at worst were willing accomplices of the Nazis. Many Polish scholars, however, deny any connection between the prewar culture of antisemitism and the wartime situation. They emphasized that Poles were also victims of the Nazis and, for the most part, tried their best to protect the Jews. This collection of essays, representing three generations of Polish and Jewish scholars, is the first attempt since the fall of Communism to reassess the existing historiography of Polish-Jewish relations just before, during, and after the Second World War. In the spirit of detached scholarly inquiry, these essays fearlessly challenge commonly held views on both sides of the debates. The authors are committed to analyzing issues fairly and to reaching a mutual understanding. Contributors cover six topics: The prewar legacy The deterioration of Polish-Jewish relations during the first years of the war Institutional Polish responses to the Nazi Final Solution Poles and the Polish nation through Jewish eyes The destruction of European Jewry and Polish popular opinion Polish-Jewish relations since 1945.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Changing Perceptions in the Historiography of Polish-Jewish Relations during the Second World War, Joshua D. Zimmerman

PART I: The Prewar Legacy

Chapter 1: Emigration versus Emigrationism: Zionism in Poland and the Territorialist Projects of the Polish Authorities, 1936-1939, Emanuel Melzer

Chapter 2: Lwów, 1918: The Transmutation of a Symbol and Its Legacy in the Holocaust, David Engel

PART II: The Widening Gap, 1939-1941

Chapter 3: Psychological Distance between Poles and Jews in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw, Barbara Engelking-Boni

Chapter 4: Polish Jews under Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941: Specific Strategies of Survival, Andrzej Bikowski

Chapter 5: Facing Hitler and Stalin: On the Subject of Jewish "Collaboration" in Soviet-Occupied Eastern Poland, 1939-1941, Ben Cion Pinchuk

Chapter 6: Jews and Their Polish Neighbors: The Case of Jedwabne in the Summer of 1941, Jan T. Gross

PART III: Institutional Polish Responses to the Final Solution

Chapter 7: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Final Solution: What Conditioned Its Actions and Inactions?, Dariusz Stola

Chapter 8: The Attitude of the Polish Underground to the Jewish Question during the Second World War, Shmuel Krakowski

Chapter 9: Polish Catholics and the Jews during the Holocaust: Heroism, Timidity, and Collaboration, John T. Pawlikowski

PART IV: Poles through Jewish Eyes

Chapter 10: Poland and the Polish Nation as Reflected in the Jewish Underground Press, Daniel Blatman

Chapter 11: Jewish and Polish Perceptions of the Shoah as Reflected in Wartime Diaries and Memoirs, Feliks Tych

Chapter 12: Polish-Jewish Relations in the Writings of Emmanuel Ringelblum, Samuel Kassow.

Chapter 13: Metaphysical Nationality in the Warsaw Ghetto: Non-Jews in the Wartime Writings of Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapiro, Henry Abramson

PART V: The Destruction of Polish Jewry and Polish Popular Opinion

Chapter 14: Ringelblum Revisited: Polish-Jewish Relations in Occupied Warsaw, 1940-1945, Gunnar S. Paulsson

Chapter 15: Hiding and Passing on the Aryan Side: A Gendered Camparison, Nechama Tec

Chapter 16: Some Issues in Jewish-Polish Relations during the Second World War, Israel Gutman

PART VI: Aftermath

Chapter 17: The Cracow Pogrom of August 1945: A Narrative Reconstruction, Anna Cichopek

Chapter 18: The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Attitudes in Postwar Poland, Bozena Szaynok

Chapter 19: Jewish Responses to Antisemitism in Poland, 1944-1947, Natalia Aleksiun

Chapter 20: Teaching about the Holocaust in Poland, Michael C. Steinlauf

Chapter 21: Collective Memory and Contemporary Polish-Jewish Relations, Zvi Gitelman

Chapter 22: The Impact of the Shoah on the Thinking of Contemporary Polish Jewry: A Personal Account, Stanislaw Krajewski

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8135-5583-3

0-8135-3538-7

OCLC:

614510571