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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 19

Polish-Jewish Relations in North America

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

AvMieczyslaw B. Biskupski,Antony Polonsky

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Poland today is a very different country from the Poland of the past, yet attitudes inherited from the past continue to affect Polish–Jewish relations in the present. In Poland itself, now a free society, memories of the Jewish place in Poland’s history, long suppressed by communism, are being re-evaluated. In America the attitudes that had divided the two sides in the Old Country seemed for a long time to be becoming more entrenched.This volume—probably the first comprehensive study of Polish–Jewish relations in North America—explores how this situation came about, and also considers the efforts being made to put the resentments caused by past conflicts to one side as the influences long dominant in the Polish–Jewish relationship in North America begin to lose their formative power.The contributors deal boldly with matters at the heart of the relationship. There is an attempt to quantify the attitudes of both sides to a number of key aspects of the Holocaust, and fascinating questions are raised about how the Holocaust has distorted the perceptions that Poles and Jews have of each other, and why the Holocaust remains a problem in Polish–Jewish relations. Stereotyping is confronted head-on. There is an investigation of how crude stereotypes of Polish peasants have found their way into Jewish history textbooks, crucially affecting the disposition of American Jews towards Poland, and of how the stereotyped world of the shtetl still haunts the American Jewish imagination, with great consequences for attitudes to Poles and Polish Americans. The way in which this stereotype is challenged by realities encountered in the context of the March of the Living is provocatively discussed, along with the options for dealing with a landscape ‘poor in Jews, but rich in Jewish ruins’. A number of chapters describe attempts to overcome mutual stereotyping, including a detailed and valuable account of the National Polish American–Jewish American Council, and of the attempts that have been made to steer the Jedwabne debate in a constructive direction. These small beginnings show that it is possible to go beyond past differences and to concentrate instead on what has linked Poles and Jews in their long history.As in earlier volumes of Polin, substantial space is given, in ‘New Views’, to recent research in other areas of Polish–Jewish studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-12-07
Mått155 x 235 x 51 mm
Vikt998 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Antal sidor674
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781874774976

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Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski holds the S. A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish History at Central Connecticut State University, and is the author of many books including The History of Poland; Ideology, Politics and Diplomacy in East Central Europe; Polish Democratic Thought; and Poland and Europe: Historical Dimensions. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.

Note on Place Names Note on Transliteration Part I Polish-Jewish Relations in North America Introduction MIECZYSLAW B. BISKUPSKI and ANTONY POLONSKY 'We're all from Poland': Christians and Jews in Polish Immigrant Fiction Karen MAJEWSKI Polish - -Jewish Relations in America, 1880-1940: Old Elements, New Configurations ewa morawska Poles and Jews in America and the Polish Question, 1914-1918 mieczsLaw b. biskupski The American Federation of Polish Jews in Polish--Jewish Relations, 1924-1939 andrzej kapiszewski Conflict between Poles and Jews in Chicago, 1900-1919 john radzilowski American Polonia and Polish Jewry in the United States, 1940-1941 david engel The Evacuation of Jewish Polish Citizens from Portugal to Jamaica, 1941-1943 tomasz potworowski Coverage of the Holocaust in Winnipeg's Jewish and Polish Press, 1939-1945 daniel stone The Necessity of 'Bieganski': A Shamed and Horrified World Seeks a Scapegoat danusha V. goska Constructing Collective Memory: The Re-envisioning of Eastern Europe as Seen through American Jewish Textbooks jonathan krasner The National Polish American-Jewish American Council: A Short History stanislaus a. blejwas Why America Has Not Seemed Like the Diaspora stephen j. whitfield From Auschwitz to Jerusalem: Re-enacting Jewish History on the March of the Living rona sheramy Contentious History: A Survey on Perceptions of Polish-Jewish Relations during the Holocaust robert cherry A Question of Identity: Polish Jewish Composers in California maja trochimczyk Three American Jewish Writers Imagine Eastern Europe (Thane Rosenbaum, Rebecca Goldstein, and Jonathan Safran Foer) anna p. ronell The Jedwabne Debate in America antony polonsky The Holocaust: A Continuing Challenge for Polish - -Jewish Relations john t. pawlikowski Part II New Views 'In the Land of their Enemies'? The Duality of Jewish Life in Eighteenth-Century Poland adam teller The Controversy over Mickiewicz's Jewish Origins laura quercioli mincer The Double Voice in Polish Jewish Women's Autobiographies of the 1930s toby w. clyman The Polish Plan for a Jewish Settlement in Madagascar, 1936-1939 carla tonini A Historian in Ideological Fetters jerzy tomaszewski Polish-Jewish Relations in the City of Vilna and the Western Vilna Region under the Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 marek wierzbicki Jewish-Polish Relations and the Lithuanian Authorities in Vilna, 1939-1940 sarunas liekis The Report of the Instytut Pamici Narodowej on the Massacres in North-Eastern Poland in Summer 1941 GUNNAR S. PAULSSON The Black Book of Lithuanian Jewry david patterson An Attempt to Recover its Voice: The Towarzystwo Spoleczno Kulturalne Zydow w Polsce, the Jewish Community, and the Polish State, 1956-1960 ALINA CALA 'I am an example that it is possible to be both a Pole and a Jew': Polish Jewish Identity and the 1968 Events in Henryk Grynberg's Memorbuch karen auerbach The Antyk Bookshop: Three Expert Opinions Submitted to the Early 2003 Court Case jerzy tomaszewski New edition of the Memoirs of a Jewish Policeman: The True Testimony of Perechodnik, reprinted from Rzeczpospolita, 11 December 2004 ANDRZEJ KACZYNSKI Part III Exchange Reply to the Review by Andrzej Trzcinski and Marcin Wodzinski, 'Some Remarks on Leszek Hondo's Study of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Krakow LESZEK HONDO Explanation ANDRZEJ TRZCINSKI AND MARCIN WODZINSKI Obituary Jacek Kuron Notes on the Contributors Glossary Index

'Very successful . . . a comprehensive introduction and eighteen separate essays, arranged roughly in chronological order, which discuss different aspects of interactions between Polish and Jewish ethnic communities . . . a plethora of accomplished scholars focus on sources of tension as well as examples of collaboration . . . a solid, provocative, and much-needed contribution to the scholarship; hopefully it will become a must-read to all those who in the future will undertake further exploration of Polish-Jewish relations in North America.' Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, American Jewish History