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| | Product Details | | Author: | Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski | | Hardcover: | 402 pages | | Publisher: | Hippocrene Books | | Publication Date: | 1993-09 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0781801168 | | Package Length: | 11.5 inches | | Package Width: | 8.75 inches | | Package Height: | 1.25 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 5 reviews |
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0 of 14 found the following review helpful:
JAN PECZKIS comment above Jan 08, 2008
excellent book! What Jan Peczkis goes to great detail to deny is really a sad joke because we have WITNESS TESTIMONIES from the pogrom. IN FACT, it was not confined to Kielce! Poles rioted all over Poland, including Lodz where they tried to murder my grandfather in the melee. This was sadly not the first instance if a blood libel that resulted in a pogrom. Jews lived in fear of their lives in Poland BEFORE WORLD WAR TWO. During the war, more Poles informed on Jews to the Germans and Polish police who turned them over to the Germans, than instances of the rightteous who indeed saved thousands of Jews...usually when it involvd converting an adorable Jewish baby to Christianity. I can talk to PECZKIS about it til he will be as red as borscht in the face. In fact, if you want a perfect example of Polish anti-Semitism, go and try to get back ANY PERSONAL POSSESSIONS that a person you know has that belong to your family in Poland. You have a greater chance of getting struck by lighting (literally) than getting it back for ANY PRICE! That IS anti-Semitism. Believe me, my life would be made a lot easier, if this was not the case. Sadly, it is. My hope is that more Poles will come forward to be kinder to Jews who want to reclaim their heritage.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Polish-Jewish Mutual History, The "Kielce Pogrom", Recurring Manifestations of Polonophobia, etc. Aug 08, 2007
This review updates an earlier one, and refers to the 1998 paperback edition. This latter edition contains several articles not found in the original hardback edition. The authors trace many mischaracterizations of Polish-Jewish history in the American press. The informed reader can appreciate how little has changed since then. For example, the recent publications of NEIGHBORS and FEAR by Jan T. Gross have resurrected many old Polonophobic canards that should have been, if nowhere else, laid to rest by this 1998 edition.
There is an extensive expose of the so-called Kielce Pogrom--A Soviet-staged event (pp. 403-422). The Soviets wanted to discredit a free Poland in the eyes of the west, and to terrorize the remaining Jews into fleeing to Palestine. Other anti-Jewish actions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia got little press in the west, probably because anti-Communism had been relatively weak in those countries.
In Kielce, the tale of the blood libel had been spread by agent provocateurs (p. 414). The Jews were shot by Communist police, and club-wielding fake "steel workers" also took their toll. Other Communist police involved in the so-called pogrom had been dressed as goons or priests. There is the fantastic myth of the 15,000 to 75,000 cheering Polish onlookers (p. 406), a myth recently repeated by Gross in his FEAR. The actual number of Polish onlookers, most of whom were probably motivated by curiosity, didn't ever exceed several hundred at its peak.
After the "pogrom", inconvenient eyewitnesses met their deaths. The Kielce files themselves were burned in November 1989, shortly before the Communists left power.
Pogonowski makes clear that the Communist anti-Jewish policies of 1968 were not Polish. They were plainly Soviet-dictated (pp. 30-31).
The atlas itself is chock-full of useful information. The reader soon learns that, despite the frictions and mutual prejudices which sometimes developed between Poles and Jews, Poland was historically one of the most tolerant nations in the world for Jews. If the fact that 80% of the world's Jews, at one time, made their home in Poland does not prove this fact, then what does? This book makes it clear that Poland had been centuries ahead of others in terms of human rights and religious tolerance.
30 of 33 found the following review helpful:
Sets the Record Straight on Polish-Jewish Relations Jun 07, 2001
In recent years, there has been a great deal of emphasis on Polish anti-Semitism. This is despite the fact that anti-Semitism existed virtually everywhere, and in Poland never approached the level which Jews encounted in many other European nations. Moreover, the positive aspects of Polish-Jewish relationships have been virtually ignored. Pogonowski's excellent book does much to show, in fact, how Jewish communities flourished in Poland.
17 of 24 found the following review helpful:
Poland: A Long-Term Haven for Jews Mar 13, 2001
Despite the frictions and mutual prejudices which sometimes developed between Poles and Jews, the fact remains that Poland was historically one of the most tolerant nations in the world for Jews. If the fact that 80% of the world's Jews, at one time, made their home in Poland does not prove this fact, then what does? This book makes it clear that Poland had been centuries ahead of others in terms of human rights and religious tolerance.
34 of 38 found the following review helpful:
An excellent treatment of a misrepresented subject Apr 14, 2000
Iwo Pogonowski's book is a veritable mine of information about Polish-Jewish relations since the Middle Ages. This subject has been badly distorted in the English-language publications, mostly for reasons that have nothing to do either with history or honesty. "Jews in Poland" needs to be read slowly, in small doses, with frequent returns because sometimes a very important fact is hidden in a footnote or some such obscure place. This volume looks and reads like a scrapbook, and the impression is reinforced by its graphic aspect."Jews in Poland" is full of very instructional maps and diagrams, it also carries a good selection of illustrations (although their quality is rather so-so). All in all, a book that stands head and shoulders over any other treatment of Jewish-Polish history in the English language.
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