Poland's threatening other : the image of the Jew from 1880 to the present / Joanna Beata Michlic.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-365) and index.

Introduction : the concept of the Jew as the threatening other and modern nation building in Poland -- The representation of the Jew as the threatening other : a historical introduction, part I -- The myth of the Jew as the threatening other in interwar Poland, 1918-39 : a historical introduction, part II -- The myth and anti-Jewish violence between 1918 and 1939 : instigation, rationalization, and justification of violence -- Perceptions of Jews during the German occupation of Poland, 1939-45 : a new set of political and social circumstances -- Old wine in a new bottle : Polish perceptions of Jews in the early postwar period, 1945-49 -- Judeo-Communists, Judeo-Stalinists, Judeo-anti-Communists, and national nihilists : the Communist regime and the myth, 1950s-80s -- Conclusion : the beginning of the end of the image, 1989-2000s.