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Author:

Gross, Jan Tomasz.

Title:

Fear : anti-semitism in Poland after Auschwitz : an essay in historical interpretation / Jan T. Gross.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xv, 303 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Antisemitism--Poland--History--20th century.
Pogroms--Kielce--Kielce--History--20th century.
Jews--Persecutions--Kielce.--Kielce.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Communism--Poland.
Poland--History--1945-1980.
Kielce (Poland)--Ethnic relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-273) and index.

Contents:

Poland abandoned. The underground state ; Discovery of the Katyń mass graves ; The destruction of Warsaw ; The "Lublin Poles," or the Soviet politics of the faits accomplis ; The symbolism of "Yalta" ; The decommissioning of the London-affiliated underground ; Monopolization of power by the Communist Party ; The landscape after the battle -- The unwelcoming of Jewish survivors. Anti-Jewish violence ; The takeover of Jewish property by Polish neighbors ; The takeover of Jewish property by the Polish State Administration ; Prosecution of Crimes against Jews ; Anti-Jewish bias in local administration ; Employment discrimination ; Anti-semitism in schools ; A pogrom that wasn't -- The Kielce pogrom: events. The taste of cherries ; The opening phase ; Assault on the building at Planty ; The breakdown of law enforcement ; A change of venue ; Passionless killings ; Conversations between strangers ; On the railroad --
The Kielce pogrom: reactions. How the working class reacted to the Kielce pogrom and what the Communist Party made of it ; The party draws conclusions ; The response of the Polish intellectual elite ; How the Catholic clergy reacted to the pogrom ; Confidential report from the Bishop of Kielce ; The response of Bishop Kubina ; Not much official ado about the Kielce pogrom ; The taste of matzo -- Blinded by social distance. The rhetoric of estrangement ; A warning ; The forgotten interface ; What was recorded about the murder of Polish Jews in Podlasie ; The limits of understanding -- Żydokomuna. The interior context ; Wartime and postwar official Soviet attitudes toward the Jews ; The Jewish Antifascist Committee and "The black book of Russian Jewry" ; Jews in the PPR ; Frakcja PPR in the CKŻP ; Jews and the postwar regime ; The co-optation of radical nationalists ; Jews in the apparatus of repression ; A pragmatic approach to the "Jewish question" in Eastern Europe ; Recapitulation -- Conclusions.

ISBN:

9780375509247
0375509240

LCCN:

2005052913

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

XBPE737 -- Lied Public Library - Clarinda (Clarinda)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)