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Book SynopsisThe theme of this rich and highly focused volume is Polish perceptions of Jews and Jewish perceptions of Poles from the Middle Ages to the present. Essays by Leszek Kolakowski and Wladyslaw Bartoszewski set the parameters of the debate. Contributors analyse sources ranging from Yiddish folk-songs to Hebrew, Yiddish, and Polish literature to Polish plays, and the discussions range over the entire period. Norman Davies writes on ethnic diversity in twentieth-century Poland, and other essays deal with related political aspects. There is also an important exchange between Stanislaus Blejwas and Shmuel Krakowski entitled 'Polemic as History'. CONTRIBUTORS Gershon C. Bacon, Israel Bartal, Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski, Stanislaus A. Blejwas, Andrzej Bryk, Michael Burleigh, Andrzej Chojnowski, Norman Davies, David Engel, M. R. D. Foot, Frank Golczewski, Adam Hetnal, Julian Ilicki, Iwona Irwin-Zarecka, Krystyna Kersten, Stefan Kieniewicz, Leszek Kolakowski, Pawel Korzec, Shmuel Krakowski, Jack Kugelmass, Anna Landau-Czajka, Sergiusz Michalski, Magdalena Opalski, Antony Polonsky, Eugenia Prokopowna, Peter Pulzer, Anna Radziwill, Alexandra Reiche, Murray J. Rosman, Michael C. Steinlauf, Jerzy Szapiro, Jean-Charles Szurek, Janusz Tazbir, Nechama Tec, Chava Turniansky, Roman Zimand.
Table of ContentsStatement from the Editors National Stereotypes LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI Poles and Jews as the ‘Other’ WLADYSLAW T. BARTOSZEWSKI Articles Images of the Jew in the Polish Commonwealth JANUSZ TAZBIR A Minority Views the Majority: Jewish Attitudes towards the Polish—Lithuanian Commonweath and Interaction with the Poles MURRAY J. ROSMAN Yiddish ‘Historical’ Songs as Sources for the History of the Jews in Pre-Partition Poland CHAVA TURNIANSKY Non-Jews and Gentile Society in East European Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, 1856-1914 ISRAEL BARTAL Trends in the Literary Perception of Jews in Modern Polish Fiction MAGDALENA OPALSKI Antisemitic Literature in Poland before the First World War FRANK GOLCZEWSKI Mr Geldhab and Sambo in Peyes: Images of the Jew on the Polish Stage, 1863-1905 MICHAEL C. STEINLAUF The Image of the Shtetl in Polish Literature EUGENIA PROKOPOWNA Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Poland NORMAN DAVIES The Jewish Question in the Work of the Instytut Badan Spraw Narodowosciowych ANDRZEJ CHOJNOWSKI The Ubiquitous Enemy: The Jew in the Political Thought of Radical Right-Wing Nationalists in Poland, 1926-1939 ANNA LANDAU-CZAJKA Jews and Poles under Soviet Occupations, 1939-1941: Conflicting Interests PAWEL KORZEC and JEAN-CHARLES SZUREK Polish—Jewish Relations and the Holocaust ANTONY POLONSKY The Founding of the All-Polish Anti-Racist League in 1946 WLADYSLAW BARTOSZEWSKI The Contexts of the So-Called Jewish Question in Poland after World War II KRYSTYNA KERSTEN and JERZY SZAPIRO Changing Identity among Younger Polish Jews in Sweden after 1968 JULIAN ILICKI Notes Problematizing the ‘Jewish Problem’ IWONA IRWIN-ZARECKA Understanding and Hope: Righteous Rescuers and Polish Jews NECHAMA TEC Jews in Jarmolince STEFAN KIENIEWICZ Personal View Wormwood and Ashes: Do Poles and Jews Hate Each Other? ROMAN ZIMAND Exchange Polemic as History: Shmuel Krakowski, The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944 STANISLAUS J. BLEJWAS Response to Blejwas SHMUEL KRAKOWSKI Response to Krakowski STANISLAUS J. BLEJWAS Review Articles The Struggles for Poland ANDRZEJ BRYK Unchanging View: Polish Jewry as Seen in Recent One-Volume Histories of the Jews GERSHON C. BACON The Teaching of the History of the Jews in Secondary Schools in the Polsih People’s Republic, 1949-1988 ANNA RADZIWILL Works in Hebrew on the History of the Jews in Interwar Poland DAVID ENGEL Ostjuden PETER PULZER On Zweig SERGIUSZ MICHALSKI Reading Ringelbaum TOMASZ GASOWSKI Recent Publications on the Plight of the Jews in Occupied Poland ADAM A. HETNAL Resistance to Tyranny M. R .D. FOOT Nazi Social Policies MICHAEL BURLEIGH History, Holocaust, and German National Identity ALEXANDRA REICHE A Look at the Last Jews of Poland JACK KUGELMASS Report Scholarly Conference: 500 Years of Jewish Settlement in Podlasie ANNA IZDORCZYK and EWA PANKIEWICZ Contributors Obituary
