Physical Description
xx, 324 p. : maps ; 24 cm
Contents
Introduction: Changing perceptions in the historiography of Polish-Jewish relations during the Second World War / Joshua D. Zimmerman
PART I. The prewar legacy:
Emigration versus emigrationsim: Zionism in Poland and the terrtorialist projects of the Polish authorities, 1936-1939 / Emanuel Melzer
Lwów, 1918: the transmutation of a symbol and its legacy in the Holocaust / David Engel
PART II. The widening gap, 1939-1941:
Psychological distance between Poles and Jews in Nazi-occupied Warsaw / Barbara Engelking-Boni
Polish Jews under Soviet occupation, 1939-1941: specific strategies of survival / Andrzej Zbikowski
Facing Hitler and Stalin: on the subject of Jewish "collaboration" in Soviet-occupied Eastern Poland, 1939-1941 / Ben Cion Pinchuk
Jews and their Polish neighbors: the case of Jedwabne in the summer of 1941 / Jan T. Gross
PART III. Institutional Polish responses to the Final Solution:
Polish government-in-exile and the Final Solution: what conditioned its actions and inactions? / Dariusz Stola
Attitude of the Polish underground to the Jewish question during the Second World War / Shmuel Krakowski
Polish Catholics and the Jews during the Holocaust: heroism, timidity, and collaboration / John T. Pawlikowski
PART IV. Poles through Jewish eyes:
Poland and the Polish nation as reflected in the Jewish underground press / Daniel Blatman
Jewish and Polish perceptions of the Shoah as reflected in wartime diaries and memoirs / Feliks Tych
Polish-Jewish relations in the writings of Emmanuel Ringelblum / Samuel Kassow
Metaphysical nationality in the Warsaw Ghetto: non-Jews in the wartime writings of Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapiro / Henry Abramson
PART V. The destruction of Polish Jewry and Polish popular opinion:
Ringelblum revisited: Polish-Jewish relations in occupied Warsaw, 1940-1945 / Gunnar S. Paulsson
Hiding and passing on the Aryan side: a gendered comparison / Nechama Tec
Some issues in Jewish-Polish relations during the Second World War / Israel Gutman
PART VI. Aftermath:
Cracow Pogrom of August 1945: a narrative reconstruction / Anna Cichopek
Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish attitudes in postwar Poland / Bozena Szaynok
Jewish responses to antisemitism in Poland, 1944-1947 / Natalia Aleksiun
Teaching about the Holocaust in Poland / Michael C. Steinlauf
Collective memory and contemporary Polish-Jewish relations / Zvi Gitelman
Impact of the Shoah on the thinking of contemporary Polish Jewry: a personal account / Stanislaw Krajewski
Other Authors/Editors
Zimmerman, Joshua D.
ISBN
0813531586
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
