1st Edition
My Brother's Keeper Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust
Edited By Antony Polonsky
Copyright 1990
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years, a lively debate has developed in Poland on the question of what responsibility the Poles share for the mass murder of the Jews, which took place largely on Polish soil. This debate was sparked off by the showing in Poland of Claude Lanzmann's film, Shoah , which revealed how deeply-rooted anti-Jewish prejudice could still be found in the Polish countryside. Anti-semitism is... Read more
1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE POOR POLES LOOK AT THE GHETTO 3 THE DEEP ROOTS AND LONG LIFE OF STEREOTYPES 4 A REPLY TO JAN BLONSKI 5 GUILT BY NEGLECT 6 THE ‘JUST’ AND THE ‘PASSIVE’ 7 THE MISSION THAT FAILED: A POLISH COURIER WHO TRIED TO HELP THE JEWS 8 ‘THE BLACK HOLE’: CONVERSATION WITH STANISLAW KRAJEWSKI, ‘A POLE AND A JEW IN ONE PERSON’ 9 DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME, PLEASE 10 DIFFERING ETHICAL STANDPOINTS 11 IN A SENSE I AM AN ANTI-SEMITE 12 POLISH REASONS AND JEWISH REASONS 13 THE EIGHTY-FIRST BLOW 14 PILATE’S GESTURE 15 THE DISSEMINATOR OF ANTI-SEMITISM? A REJOINDER TO JAN BLONSKI 16 THE HIDDEN COMPLEX OF THE POLISH MIND: POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS DURING THE HOLOCAUST 17 ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN POLAND
Biography
Antony Polonsky is Reader in International History at the London School of Economics. Among his books are Politics in Independent Poland (Oxford, 1972), The Little Dictators (London 1975) and, with Boleslaw Drukiér, The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (London 1981). He is President of the Institute for Polish-Jewish studies and editor of POLIN: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies.
'This book is a valuable slice of contemporary history which sheds much light on Polish moral sensibilities towards the Holocaust itself ...' – The Slavonic Review
