{"product_id":"polin-studies-in-polish-jewry-volume-21-1968-forty-years-after-9781904113362","title":"Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 21: 1968","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-1960s, public opinion in Poland turned against the Gomulka regime for a variety of reasons. In an attempt to regain public support and divert attention from the real problems, Gomulka adopted an antisemitic stance. On 19 March 1968 he delivered a speech to party activists in which he divided Jews into three categories: 'patriotic Jews', 'Zionists', and those who were neither Jews nor Poles but 'cosmopolitans', who should 'avoid those fields of work where the affirmation of nationality is indispensable'. In consequence, nearly 15,000 Jews--a very large part of Poland's Jewish community--left for Israel, western Europe, and North America, effectively ending Jewish life in the country for over a decade. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe events of 1968 were long ignored by scholars but in recent years their importance in the process which led to the collapse of communism has become increasingly evident. This volume illuminates the events that triggered the crisis, the crisis itself, and its consequences. Different aspects of this are examined by Dariusz Stola, Jerzy Eisler, and Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum, while the role of the the Polish Military Intelligence Service during 1945-1961 in precipitating the crisis is analyzed by Leszek Gluchowski.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeveral contributors consider the background to the crisis in terms of the concerns of the Jewish community. Audrey Kichelewski describes developments in the community between the consolidation of Gomulka's power in 1957 and the outbreak of the Six Day War. Malgorzata Melchior examines how Jews who had survived in Poland during the Second World War responded to the crisis. Joanna Wiszniewicz provides a group portrait of pupils of Jewish origin in Warsaw schools in the 1960s, a milieu from which important elements in the student opposition were drawn. Karen Auerbach sharpens the focus in her consideration of the situation of Yiddish writer Naftali Herts Kon, while Holly Levitsky describes the travails of the Jewish communist writer Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. The book also reprints the testimonies of several people who lived through these painful events: Jerzy Jedlicki, Henryk Dasko, and Miroslaw Sawicki. Bozena Szaynok analyses the rhetoric of the period and examines the role of 'Israel' in the crisis. The controversies which it still arouses are reflected in the exchange between generals Pioro and Jaruzelski concerning the impact of the purge of Jewish officers from the Polish People's Army and in the responses to the publication by Piotr Gontarczyk of a report on the role of Jacek Kuron in 1968. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs in previous volumes of \u003ci\u003ePolin\u003c\/i\u003e, in the section 'New Views' substantial space is also given to new research into a variety of topics in Polish-Jewish studies. These include a study by Kalman Weiser of the Yiddishist Ideology of Noah Prylucki; an reassessment by Julian Bussgang of the role of Metropolitan Sheptytsky during the Holocaust; an account by Michael Beizer and Israel Bartal of the tragic career of Moses Schorr; an evaluation by Krzysztof Czyzewski of the work of the Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski; and a description of the reception in Poland of Art Spiegelman's \u003ci\u003eMaus\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTRIBUTORS Karen Auerbach, Israel Bartal, Michael Beizer, Teresa Bogucka, Julian Bussgang, Wojciech Czuchnowski, Krzysztof Czyzewski, Henryk Dasko, Jerzy Eisler, Leszek W. Gluchowski, Piotr Gontarczyk, Anna Jarmusiewicz, Wojciech Jaruszelski, Jerzy Jedlicki, Audrey Kichelewski, Holli Levitsky, Krzysztof Link-Lenczowski, Tomasz Lysak, Jacek Maj, Malgorzata Melchior, Joanna B. Michlic, Karol Modzelewski, Tadeusz Pioro, Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum, Maciej Rybinski, Dariusz Stola, Bozena Szaynok, Kalman Weiser, Joanna Wisniewicz, Tadeusz Witkowski, Piotr Wrobel, Rafal Ziemiewicz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Place Names\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Note on Transliteration\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: THE 1968 CRISIS AFTER FORTY YEARS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e leszek W. Gluchowski and Antony Polonsky\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Hate Campaign of March 1968: How Did It Become Anti-Jewish?\u003cbr\u003e Dariusz Stola\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1968: Jews, Antisemitism, Emigration\u003cbr\u003e Jerzy Eisler\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe March Events: Targeting the Jews\u003cbr\u003e Wlodzymiersz Rozenbaum\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA Critical Analysis of the Activities of the Polish Military Intelligence Service, 1945–1961\u003cbr\u003e leszek W. Gluchowski\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e‘Israel’ in the Events of March 1968 \u003cbr\u003e Bozena Szaynok\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA Community under Pressure: Jews in Poland, 1957–1967\u003cbr\u003e Audrey Kichelewski\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFacing Antisemitism in Poland during the Second World War and in March 1968\u003cbr\u003e Malgorzata Melchior\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJewish Children and Youth in Downtown Warsaw Schools of the 1960s\u003cbr\u003e Joanna Wiszniewicz\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Exile of Sara Nomberg-Przytyk: Polish Jewish Communist\u003cbr\u003e Holli Levitsky\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Fate of a Yiddish Poet in Communist Eastern Europe: Naftali Herts Kon in Poland, 1959–1965\u003cbr\u003e Karen Auerbach\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDomestic Shame: A Conversation with Professor Jerzy Jedlicki\u003cbr\u003e Anna Jarmusiewicz\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAn Interview with Mirosław Sawicki (August 2006)\u003cbr\u003e Joanna B. Michlic\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTestimony\u003cbr\u003e Henryk Dasko\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Controversy Aroused by the Role in 1968 of General Wojciech Jaruzelski: The Purges in the Polish Army 1967–1968\u003cbr\u003e Tadeusz Pióro\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA Painful and Complex Subject\u003cbr\u003e Wojciech Jaruzelski\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReply to General Jaruzelski\u003cbr\u003e Tadeusz Pióro\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Controversy Aroused by the 1968 Events in 2006: A Meeting with Jacek Kuron as Reported by Secret Collaborator ‘Return’ (Leslaw Maleszka): A Contribution to the Discussions about the Events of March 1968\u003cbr\u003e Piotr Gontarczyk\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Institute for National Remembrance Slanders Jacek Kuron\u003cbr\u003e Wojciech Czuchnowski and Seweryn Blumsztajn\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eI Am, Therefore I Write: Uses and Abuses\u003cbr\u003e Maciej Rybinski\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSelective Indignation\u003cbr\u003e Rafal Ziemkiewicz\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAttention, Moczar Lives! An Interview with Karol Modzelewski\u003cbr\u003e Adam Leszczyński\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBetween the Institute for National Remembrance and Gazeta Wyborcza: The Cracked Code\u003cbr\u003e Tadeusz Witkowski\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e‘Gniazdo’—The Moral Bankruptcy of the Security Service (SB)\u003cbr\u003e Teresa Bogucka\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: NEW VIEWS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Yiddishist Ideology of Noah Prylucki\u003cbr\u003e Kalman Weiser\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMetropolitan Sheptytsky: A Reassessment\u003cbr\u003e Julian J. Bussgang\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Case of Moses Schorr: Rabbi, Scholar, and Social Activist\u003cbr\u003e Michael Beizer and Israel Bartal\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eYou Can’t Do It Just Like That... or, Jerzy Ficowski’s Path to Reading the Ashes\u003cbr\u003e Krzysztof Czyżewski\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eContemporary Debates on the Holocaust in Poland: The Reception of Art Spiegelman’s ‘Graphic Novel’ Maus\u003cbr\u003e Tomasz Łysak\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eApollo, Mercury, and Soviet Jews\u003cbr\u003e Piotr Wróbel\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eObituaries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFather Stanislaw Musial\u003cbr\u003e Józef Andrzej Gierowski\u003cbr\u003e Jerzy Ficowski\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNotes on the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470269714775,"sku":"9781904113362","price":29.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781904113362.jpg?v=1744897852","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/polin-studies-in-polish-jewry-volume-21-1968-forty-years-after-9781904113362","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}