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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 13: Focusing on the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Antony Polonsky and Antony Polonsky

Abstract

The assessment of the Nazi genocide in Poland, an issue which has deeply divided Poles and Jews, lies at the core of this volume. Also included are discussions of Polish attitudes to the nearly 300,000 Jews who tried to resettle in post-war Poland; the little-known testimony of Belzec survivor Rudolf Reder; a discussion of Holocaust victims as martyrs; and a presentation of how the Auschwitz Museum sees its future.

Keywords: Nazi genocide, Poland, Poles, Jews, post-war Poland, Holocaust victims, Auschwitz Museum

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2000 Print ISBN-13: 9781874774600
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: February 2021 DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781874774600.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Antony Polonsky, editor
Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University

Antony Polonsky, author

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Front Matter

Title Pages

The Institute for Polish‒Jewish Studies

Dedication

Epigraph

Dedication

Preface

Polin

Polin

Contents

Note on Names of People and Places

Note on Transliteration

Abbreviations

Part I The Holocaust and its Aftermath

Introduction

Antony Polonsky

Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918‒1939 and 1945‒1947

Joanna Michlic-coren

Jewish Reaction to the Soviet Arrival in the Kresy in September 1939

Andrzej Żbikowski

Reflections on Soviet Documents Relating to Polish Prisoners of War Taken in September 1939

Simon Schochet

The Demography of Jews in Hiding in Warsaw, 1943‒1945

Gunnar S. Paulsson

Psychological Problems of Polish Jews who Used Aryan Documents

Maria Einhorn-Susułowska

My Two Mothers

Elżbieta Ficowska

Early Swedish Information about the Nazis’ Mass Murder of the Jews

Józef Lewandowski

Jewish Identities in the Holocaust: Martyrdom as a Representative Category

Jonathan Webber

Three Essays on Jewish Education during the Nazi Occupation

Marian Małowist

Two Coffins on Smocza Street and Śliska Street

Janusz Korczak

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero

Joanna Rostropowicz Clark

Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions

Diana Kuprel

Letter to Father

Jan Ryszard Bychowski

Stereotypes of Polish–Jewish Relations after the War: The Special Commission of the Central Committee of Polish Jews

Jan Gross

The Bund and the Jewish Fraction of the Polish Workers’ Party in Poland after 1945

Bożena Szaynok

Whose Nation, Whose State? Working-Class Nationalism and Antisemitism in Poland, 1945‒1947

Padraic Kenney

Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom, April 1945–February 1946

Adam Penkalla

Polish Jews during and after the Kielce Pogrom: Reports from the Communist Archives

Joanna Michlic-coren

Bełżec

Rudolf Reder

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: From Commemoration to Education

Teresa Świebocka

Part II A Debate about Antisemitism in Poland Today

Black is Black

Stanisław Musiał

A Rainbow in Black

Waldemar Chrostowski

The Sin of Antisemitism: A Response to Waldemar Chrostowski

Stanisław Musiał

Difficult Remarks to Write

Stanisław Krajewski

A Shadow over the Dialogue

Monika Adamczyk-garbowska

Part III An Interview

Marian Małowist on History and Historians

Part IV New Views

The Day after the Pogrom: A Documentary Account

Józef Bekker

Jewish Theatre in Poland before the Second World War: Its Audiences and its Critics

Maya Peretz

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

Regina Grol

Ludwik Rajchman: A Biographical Sketch of a Polish Jew

Marta Aleksandra Balińska

Abraham Joshua Heschel in Poland: Hasidism Enters Modernity

Edward K. Kaplan

Part V Reviews

Review Essays Recent Books on the Catholic Church in Poland

John T. Pawlikowski

‘You shall not bear false witness’

Jerzy Tomaszewski

A Lithuanian Account of Life in the Camps

Nerijus Udrenas

Analyses of World Antisemitism Published between 1991 and 1997

Alina Cała

Book Reviews

Joseph Perl

Die Krakauer Jüdische Reformgemeinde, 1864‒1874

Hanna Kozińska-witt

No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry, 1935‒1939

Emanuel Melzer

Essential Papers on Jews and the Left(New York: New York University Press, 1997); pp. viii + 552 (paperback)

Ezra Mendelsohn (ed.)

Hebrew Poetry in Poland between the Two World Wars

David Weinfeld (ed.)

Obcy W Polskim Domu: Nacjonalistyczne Koncepcje RozwiąZania Problemu Mniejszości Narodowych 1918‒1939

Włodzimierz Mich

Toledot Hakolnoa Hayehudi Befolin, 1901‒1950

Natan Gross

Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History

Robert Liberles

Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust

Michael C. Steinlauf

Lost Landscapes: In Search of the Jews of Poland,

Agata Tuszyńska Translated by Madeline Levine

Obituary Teresa Prekerowa 1922‒1998

Agata TuszyńSka

Correspondence Exchange between Rafał Żebrowski and Hanna Kozińska-Witt

Agata TuszyńSka

End Matter

Notes on the Contributors

Glossary

Index