2006, ISBN: 9780529044952

New York : Random House, 2006. Fifth Edition. Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as… Mehr…

New York : Random House, 2006. Fifth Edition. Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in the world–only American Jewry numbered more than the three and a half million Polish Jews at the time–was wiped out. Over 90 percent of its members were killed in the Holocaust. And yet, despite this unprecedented calamity that affected both Jews and non-Jews, Jewish Holocaust survivors returning to their hometowns in Poland after the war experienced widespread hostility, including murder, at the hands of their neighbors. The bloodiest peacetime pogrom in twentieth-century Europe took place in the Polish town of Kielce one year after the war ended, on July 4, 1946. Jan GrossÂ’s Fear attempts to answer a perplexing question: How was anti-Semitism possible in Poland after the war? At the center of his investigation is a detailed reconstruction of the Kielce pogrom and the reactions it evoked in various milieus of Polish society. How did the Polish Catholic Church, Communist party workers, and intellectuals respond to the spectacle of Jews being murdered by their fellow citizens in a country that had just been liberated from a five-year Nazi occupation? Gross argues that the anti-Semitism displayed in Poland in the warÂ’s aftermath cannot be understood simply as a continuation of prewar attitudes. Rather, it developed in the context of the Holocaust and the Communist takeover: Anti-Semitism eventually became a common currency between the Communist regime and a society in which many had joined in the Nazi campaign of plunder and murder–and for whom the Jewish survivors were a standing reproach. Jews did not bring communism to Poland as some believe; in fact, they were finally driven out of Poland under the Communist regime as a matter of political expediency. In the words of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz, PolandÂ’s Communist rulers fulfilled the dream of Polish nationalists by bringing into existence an ethnically pure state. For more than half a century, what happened to the Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland has been cloaked in guilt and shame. Writing with passion, brilliance, and fierce clarity, Jan T. Gross at last brings the truth to light. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 303 pages; Description: xv, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-273) and index. Subjects: Antisemitism --Pogroms --20th century --Jews --Persecutions --Kielce --Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Influence --Communism --Poland --History --1945-1980.., New York : Random House, 2006, Meridian / World Publishing, 1972. 1st printing. Large paperback. includes 16 unnumbered pages of anti semitic cartoons. 231 pages. Edges of book show some wear and discoloration. Inside clean and tightly bound. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Meridian / World Publishing, 1972<

1972, ISBN: 9780529044952

Baker Pub Group. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy char… Mehr…

Baker Pub Group. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities., Baker Pub Group, World Pub, January 1972. Paper Back. Good. Paper Back, World Pub<

1972, ISBN: 9780529044952

World Pub, January 1972. Paper Back Paper Back. Good., World Pub

1972, ISBN: 9780529044952

World Pub, January 1972. Paper Back. Good., World Pub

1972, ISBN: 9780529044952

World. Near Fine. 1972. First Printing. Soft Cover. 0529044951 Book 231p illustrated. ., World, 1972