Polish Jews in Israel

Elżbieta Kossewska is an associate professor at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Political Science and International Studies. She has published many monographs and articles devoted to Polish-Israeli relations and the cultural and literary heritage of Polish emigrants.

• List of TablesIntroduction1 Foreign Languages in Israel1.1 The Status of Yiddish, Polish, and Hebrew1.2 Language and Press Policy1.3 The Polish Language in Israel2 Newspapers Published by the Progressive Party and the General Zionists2.1 The Alliance of Jews from Poland in the Progressive Party2.2 The Propaganda Policy of the Editors of Opinia2.3 Nowiny [The News]2.4 The Gomułka Aliyah3 Mapai’s Press3.1 Mapai’s Policy Towards Polish Journalists and Immigration3.2 The Editorial Office3.3 Clientelism3.4 Language, Politics, and Propaganda3.5 Nowiny versus Kurier3.6 Nowiny-Kurier3.7 The Lavon Affair and the Coalition Crisis4 “Foreigners among Foreigners …” – The March Aliyah4.1 Ambivalent Identity4.2 Nowiny-Kurier vis-à-vis the March Aliyah4.3 The Attitudes of Zionists and Postcommunists Towards the March Aliyah5 Mapam’s Od Nowa5.1 Mapam and the New Olim from Poland5.2 Ignacy Iserles and “Homeless Themis”5.3 Od Nowa – The Newspaper for Outsiders5.4 Success with Readers in the Israeli Press5.5 Between Commercialization and Weekly Opinion5.6 Difficulties of Adaptation5.7 Ethnic Politics and National Issues5.8 Crisis6 Walka – The Newspaper of the Israeli Communists6.1 The Gomułka Aliyah and Maki6.2 Walka6.3 Controlled Adaptation of Communists6.4 Israeli Communists and the International Communist Movement6.5 March Epilogue: Biuletyn Związku Długoletnich Działaczy Ruchu Robotniczego6.6 The Israeli Epilogue of Po Prostu and the BundConclusionGlossary of Selected TermsBibliographyIndex

"This book, originally published in 2015 by Warsaw University Press, is a highly scholarly volume, the product of meticulous and painstaking research, for the most part conducted in archives in Israel. The subject is an interesting and important one — addressing the larger questions of the path of emigrants toward integration and assimila¬tion in a new host culture through the medium of foreign language media in their native language. (…) With its extensive bibliography and detailed footnotes, Polish Jews in Israel is an invaluable reference source."- Mindy C. Reiser, Jewish Study Center, Washington, D.C., in AJL News and Reviews, February | March 2022, Volume II, No.6