Polish-Jewish relations in a philosophical perspective.

Includes bibliographical references.

Friends and strangers / Jakub Goldberg -- Some comments on J. Goldberg's paper / Zdzisław Libera -- The Jewish population in Poland during the Middle Ages / Henryk Samsonowicz -- Poles and Jews : the forgotten tradition of cooperation / Jerzy R. Nowak -- Polish reasons and Jewish reasons -- Jerzy Turowicz -- Values against the Holocaust / Antonina Kłoskowska -- Warsaw Ghetto : reflections on attitudes / Ruta Sakowska -- The fight and martyrdom of Polish Jews : the myths and the truth / Kazimierz Kąkol -- A comment on Czesław Miłosz's Campo di Fiori / Zdzisław Libera -- I was in the Umschlagplatz / Zydmunt Nissenbaum --

The concept of alienation in Janusz Korczak's works / Henryk Rosen -- God and nation : Franz Rosenzweig's concept of messianism vs. Polish messianism / Barbara Markiewicz -- Philosophical premises of Levinas' conception of Judaism / Iwona Lorenc -- Martin Buber : a Jew from Galicia / Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska -- Reflections and reservations concerning Martin Buber's dialogical philosophy in its religious dimension / John R. Thomas -- Language, eroticism, and Polish-Jewish relations in Jerzy Kosinski's The hermit of 69th street -- Polin : a journal of dialogue / Tomasz Gąsowski --The Nissenbaum Foundation : saving the traces of culture / Radosław Piszczek -- Moral ideals and social values : the dialectics of legitimization / Shlomo Avineri -- Pluralism and universalist socialism / Janusz Kuczyński.