Rethinking Poles and Jews

Rethinking Poles and Jews

Author: Robert D. Cherry

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780742546660

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Rethinking Poles and Jews focuses on the role of Holocaust-related material in perpetuating anti-Polish images and describes organizational efforts to combat them. Without minimizing contemporary Polish anti-Semitism, it also presents more positive material on contemporary Polish-American organizations and Jewish life in Poland.


Shelter from the Holocaust

Shelter from the Holocaust

Author: Mark Edele

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2017-12-04

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 081434268X

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This pioneering volume will interest scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues.


Rethinking Jewish Philosophy

Rethinking Jewish Philosophy

Author: Aaron W. Hughes

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-04

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0199356815

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Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.


The Jews in Polish Culture

The Jews in Polish Culture

Author: Aleksander Hertz

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780810107588

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"A richly perceptive sociological consideration of the Jewish community as a caste in 19th- and early-20th-century Poland... A book that should be part of any study of modern Polish culture or Diaspora Jewry." --Kirkus Reviews


Hunt for the Jews

Hunt for the Jews

Author: Jan Grabowski

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-10-09

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 025301087X

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A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a “grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study” (Kirkus Reviews). Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death machine organized what they called Judenjagd, meaning hunt for the Jews. As a result of the Judenjagd, few of those who escaped the death camps would survive to see liberation. As Jan Grabowski’s penetrating microhistory reveals, the majority of the Jews in hiding perished as a consequence of betrayal by their Polish neighbors. Hunt for the Jews tells the story of the Judenjagd in Dabrowa, Tarnowska, a rural county in southeastern Poland. Drawing on materials from Polish, Jewish, and German sources created during and after the war, Grabowski documents the involvement of the local Polish population in the process of detecting and killing the Jews who sought their aid. Through detailed reconstruction of events, “Grabowski offers incredible insight into how Poles in rural Poland reacted to and, not infrequently, were complicit with, the German practice of genocide. Grabowski also, implicitly, challenges us to confront our own myths and to rethink how we narrate British (and American) history of responding to the Holocaust” (European History Quarterly).


Unequal Victims

Unequal Victims

Author: Israel Gutman

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Denies the claim that Poles and Jews in occupied Poland were in a similar position and that, as a result, the Poles were unable to help the persecuted Jews. Their failure to help the Jews arose from prewar antisemitic attitudes. Many Poles benefited from Jewish abandoned property and the elimination of economic competition, and public satisfaction with German policy was reported by the Delegate's office, the representative of the exiled Polish government. Neither the office nor the Polish underground leadership included Jewish representatives. The Sikorski government in London, more sensitive to Western opinion, included two Jewish representatives and made declarations condemning the mass murder of Jews but gave little material help, partly due to pressure by extremist right-wing groups. Other chapters discuss the Council for Aid to Jews (Żegota), antisemitism in the Anders Army, and antisemitism and pogroms after the liberation.


Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

Author: Michael L. Morgan

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2014-11-28

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0253014778

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Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.


The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars

The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars

Author: Yisrael Gutman

Publisher: Tauber Institute Series for th

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874515558

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Original essays by distinguished scholars explore Jewish politics, religion, literature, and society in Poland from 1918 to 1939.


At the Mercy of Strangers

At the Mercy of Strangers

Author: נחום ‏בוגנר

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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[This book] "by Dr. Nahum Bogner is the result of his unique and pathfinding research relating to the rescue of children who lived and survived under an assumed identity in Poland among various strands of the Christian population--in towns, in villages and in vonvents--as well as the efforts made by various bodies after the war to locate the children. At the heart of this carefully documented drama is the author's discussion of the fate of the child survivors as he explores their lives in alien Christian surroundings and their tortuous journey back to the Jewish fold."--From page [4] of cover.