'My brother's keeper?' : recent Polish debates on the Holocaust / edited by Antony Polonsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polonsky, Antony.

Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Oxford, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Public opinion--Poland.

Public opinion.

Antisemitism--Poland.

Antisemitism.

Poland--Ethnic relations.

Poland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge in association with Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, c1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What responsibility do the Poles share for the mass murder of the Jews, which took place largely on Polish soil? In a major contribution to the history of the Holocaust Polonsky gathers together the most important arguments in this debate.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; THE POOR POLES LOOK AT THE GHETTO; THE DEEP ROOTS AND LONG LIFE OF STEREOTYPES; A REPLY TO JAN BOSKI; GUILT BY NEGLECT; THE 'JUST' AND THE 'PASSIVE'; THE MISSION THAT FAILED: A POLISH COURIER WHO TRIED TO HELP THE JEWS; 'THE BLACK HOLE': CONVERSATION WITH STANISAW KRAJEWSKI, 'A POLE AND A JEW IN ONE PERSON'; DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME, PLEASE; DIFFERING ETHICAL STANDPOINTS; IN A SENSE I AM AN ANTI-SEMITE; POLISH REASONS AND JEWISH REASONS; THE EIGHTY-FIRST BLOW; PILATE'S GESTURE; THE DISSEMINATOR OF ANTI-SEMITISM? A REJOINDER TO JAN BOSKI

THE HIDDEN COMPLEX OF THE POLISH MIND: POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS DURING THE HOLOCAUSTETHICAL PROBLEMS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN POLAND Discussion held at the International Conference on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry in Jerusalem on Monday 1 February 1988; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-95210-4

1-134-95211-2

0-415-75539-5

1-280-32209-8

0-203-40702-4

9780203407028

OCLC:

646717989