Contested memories : Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and its aftermath / edited by Joshua D. Zimmerman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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