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Rethinking Poles and Jews
Troubled Past, Brighter Future
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2007
Summary
Since Polish Catholics embraced some anti-Jewish notions and actions prior to WWII, many intertwined the Nazi death camps in Poland with Polish anti-Semitism. As a result, more so than local non-Jewish population in other Nazi-occupied countries, Polish Catholics were considered active collaborators in the destruction of European Jewry. Through the presentation of these negative images in Holocaust literature, documentaries, and teaching, these stereotypes have been sustained and infect attitudes toward contemporary Poland, impacting on Jewish youth trips there from Israel and the United States.
This book 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. To our knowledge this will be the first book to document systematically the anti-Polish images in Holocaust material, to describe ongoing efforts to combat these negative stereotypes, and to emphasize the positive role of the Polish Catholic community in the resurgence of Jewish life in Poland. Thus, this book will present new information that will be of value to Holocaust Studies and the 100,000 annual foreign visitors to the German death camps in Poland.
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Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-4665-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4308-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
232
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
A Polish Christian-Jewish Timeline No access
Introduction: Confronting Negative Stereotypes: Polish Behavior in Wartime and Contemporary Poland No access Pages 1 - 20
Introduction: Anti-Polish Stereotypes No access
1 Poland and the Poles in the Cinematic Portrayal of the Holocaust No access
2 Cinema in the Crossfire of Jewish-Polish Polemics: Wajda's Korczak and Polanski's The Pianist No access
3 American Press Coverage of Poland's Role in the Holocaust No access
4 Measuring Anti-Polish Biases Among Holocaust Teachers No access
Introduction: Polish-Jewish Relations in America No access
5 Polish-Jewish Relations during the Holocaust: A Changing Jewish Viewpoint No access
6 Polish and Jewish Historiography of Jewish-Polish Relationsduring World War II No access
7 The Holocaust: A Continuing Challenge for Polish-Jewish Relations No access
8 Polish-Jewish Relations since 1984: Reflections of a Participant No access
Introduction: Polish-Jewish Relations in Poland: Where HaveWe Come From and Where Are We Headed? No access
9 The Evolution of Catholic-Jewish Relations in Poland after l989 No access
10 Antisemitism in Contemporary Poland: Does It Matter? And For Whom Does It Matter? No access
11 Polish Historians Respond to Jedwabne No access
12 March of the Living: Confronting Anti-Polish Stereotypes No access
13 Gentiles Doing Jewish Stuff: The Contributions of Polish Non-Jews to Polish Jewish Life No access
