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

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. contributors Monika Adamczyk-garbowska, Marta Aleksandra Baliska, Józef Bekker, Jan Ryszard Bychowski, Alina Cala, Waldemar Chrostowski, Maria Einhorn-susulowska, Elzbieta Ficowska, Regina Grol, Jan Gross, Edward K. Kaplan, Padraic Kenney, Janusz Korczak, Stanislaw Krajewski, Diana Kuprel, Józef Lewandowski, Marian Malowist, Joanna Michlic-coren, Stanislaw Musial, Gunnar S. Paulsson, John T. Pawlikowski, Adam Penkalla, Maya Peretz, Antony Polonsky, Rudolf Reder, Joanna Rostropowicz Clark, M. M. Rubel, Simon Schochet, Teresa Swiebocka, Bozena Szaynok, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Nerijus Udrenas, Jonathan Webber, Andrzej Zbikowski booknews continues The Periodical On Polish Jews Sponsored By Institutes At Oxford And Brandeis Universities With 31 Articles; An Interview With Marian Malowist; Reviews Of 14 Recent Books; An Obituary Of Teresa Prekerowa, And Correspondence. Among The Topics Are The Demography Of Jews In Hiding In Warsaw In 1943-45, Antisemitism In Poland Today, And A Documentary Account Of The Day After The Pogrom. Distributed In The Us By Isbs. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com) Frontmatter Note on Names of People and Places (page xvi) Note on Transliteration (page xviii) List of Abbreviations (page xix) PART I: THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS AFTERMATH Introduction (ANTONY POLONSKY, page 3) Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918-1939 and 1945-1947 (JOANNA MICHLIC-COREN, page 34) Jewish Reaction to the Soviet Arrival in the Kresy in September 1939 (ANDRZEJ ŻBIKOWSKI, page 62) Reflections on Soviet Documents Relating to Polish Prisoners of War Taken in September 1939 (SIMON SCHOCHET, page 73) The Demography of Jews in Hiding in Warsaw, 1943-1945 (GUNNAR S. PAULSSON, page 78) Psychological Problems of Polish Jews who Used Aryan Docuemnts (MARIA EINHORN-SUSUŁOWSKA, page 104) My Two Mothers (ELŻBIETA FICOWSKA, page 112) Early Swedish Information about the Nazis' Mass Murder of the Jews (JÓZEF LEWANDOWSKI, page 113) Jewish Identities in the Holocaust: Martyrdom as a Representative Category (JONATHAN WEBBER, page 128) Three Essays on Jewish Education during the Nazi Occupation (MARIAN MAŁOWIST, page 147) Two Coffins on Smocza Street and Śliska Street (JANUSZ KORZAK, page 163) Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero (JOANNA ROSTROPOWICZ CLARK, page 166) Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nałkowska's Medallions (DIANA KUPREL, page 179) Letter to Father (JAN RYSZARD BYCHOWSKI, page 188) Stereotypes of Polish-Jewish Relations after the War: The Special Commission of the Central Committee of Polish Jews (JAN GROSS, page 194) The Bund and the Jewish Fraction of the Polish Workers' Party in Poland after 1945 (BOŻENA SZAYNOK, page 206) Whose Nation, Whose State? Working-Class Nationalism and Antisemitism in Poland, 1945-1947 (PADRAIC KENNEY, page 224) Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom, April 1945-February 1946 (ADAM PENKALLA, page 236) Polish Jews during and after the Kielce Pogrom: Reports from the Communist Archives (JOANNA MICHLIC-COREN, page 253) Bełżec (RUDOLF REDER with a translator's note by M.M. RUBEL, page 268) The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: From Commemoration to Education (TERESA ŚWIEBOCKA, page 290) PART II: A DEBATE ABOUT ANTISEMITISM IN POLAND TODAY Black is Black (STANISŁAW MUSIAŁ, page 303) A Rainbow in Black (WALDEMAR CHROSTOWSKI, page 310) The Sin of Antisemitism: A Response to Waldemar Chrostowski (STANISŁAW MUSIAŁ, page 317) Difficult Remarks to Write (STANISŁAW KRAJEWSKI, page 323) A Shadow over the Dialogue (MONIKA ADAMCZYK-GARBOWSKA, page 325) PART III: AN INTERVIEW Marian Małowist on History and Historians (page 331) PART IV: NEW VIEWS The Day after the Pogrom: A Documentary Account (JÓZEF BEKKER, page 347) Jewish Theatre in Poland before the Second World War: Its Audiences and its Critics (MAYA PERETZ, page 356) Forbidden Fruit: Illicit Love Affairs between Jews and Gentiles in the Novels of Julian Stryjkowski (REGINA GROL, page 366) Ludwik Rajchman: A Biographical Sketch of a Polish Jew (MARTA ALEKSANDRA BALIŃSKA, page 373) Abraham Joshua Heschel in Poland: Hasidism Enters Modernity (EDWARD K. KAPLAN, page 383) PART V: REVIEWS REVIEW ESSAYS Recent Books on the Catholic Church in Poland (JOHN T. PAWLIKOWSKI, page 401) 'You shall not bear false witness': Stanisław C. Napiórkowski (ed.), A bliźniego swego...Materiały z sympozjum 'Św. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe-Żydzi-masoni' (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 406) A Lithuanian Account of Life in the Camps: Balys Sruoga, Forest of the Gods: Memoirs (NERIJUS UDRENAS, page 411) Analyses of World Antisemitism Published between 1991 and 1997 (ALINA CAŁA, page 418) BOOK REVIEWS Joseph Perl, Revealer of Secrets: The First Hebrew Novel, trans. and ed. Dov Taylor (PAUL RADENSKY, page 425) Hanna Kozińska-Witt, Die Krakauer Jüdische Reformgemeinde, 1864-1874 (ANDRZEJ ŻBIKOWSKI, page 427) Emanuel Melzer, No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry, 1935-1939 (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 431) Ezra Mendelsohn (ed.), Essential Papers on Jews and the Left (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 433) David Weinfeld (ed.), Hebrew Poetry in Poland between the Two World Wars (DAVID ABERBACH, page 434) Włodzimierz Mich, Obcy w polskim domu: nacjonalistyczne koncepcje rozwizania problemu mniejszości narodowych 1918-1939 (JOANNA MICHLIC-COREN, page 436) Natan Gross, Toledot hakolnoa hayehudi befolin, 1910-1950 (YARON PELEG, page 440) Robert Liberles, Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History (IRA ROBINSON, page 443) Michael C. Steinlauf, Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 444) Agata Tuszyńska, Lost Landscapes: In Search of the Jews of Poland, trans. Madeline Levine (RUTH ABRAMS, page 446) OBITUARY Teresa Prekerowa (1922-1998) (GUNNAR S. PAULSSON, page 450) CORRESPONDENCE Exchange between Rafał Żebrowski and Hanna Kozińska-Witt (page 453) Notes on the Contributors (page 457) Glossary (page 463) Index (page 465) Annotation 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