...This chapter discusses the Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom. The relations between Poles and Jews and the situation of the Jewish population directly after the end of the Second World War on Polish territory are topics which have only recently been addressed in Polish historiography...

... stresses the most important facts that influenced the coexistence of two nations — the positive sides as well as the negative. At the same time, Steinlauf's contexts — ranging from the changing Polish–Jewish relations in the nineteenth century to consequences of the 'national unity' of Poles against German...

...This chapter reviews Agata Tuszyńska's book Lost Landscapes: In Search of the Jews in Poland (1998). In Lost Landscapes, Tuszyńska pulls together diverse threads: a literary and historical contextualization of the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer, contemporary Poles...

...This chapter assesses the issue of Jews in the Urzędy Bezpieczeństwa (Polish security apparatus, UB), which includes that of the relationship of Jews to communism as well as of Poles to Jews, and also perhaps of Jews to Poles. The disproportionate number of Jews in the communist movement...

... reflected issues relating to Poles and the Polish state as well. Moreover, Ukrainian–Jewish relations were influenced by problems relating to Poland's most significant neighbours, Soviet Russia in the east and Weimar and later Nazi Germany in the west. Thus, an examination of the Ukrainian press in Poland...

.... In pursuing his goals, Gutman focuses on the three main collective actors in this complex story: the Germans and their collaborators, their Jewish victims, and the Poles, both those in Warsaw and in the London-based exile government. Yisrael Gutman Warsaw Ghetto Warsaw Jews militant Jewish resistance...

... in such settlements. These settlements, shtetlekh, were fascinating centres of Jewish life and culture, and places of daily contacts between Jews and Christian Poles. It is therefore surprising how few books on the shtetl have been published. Hence, one welcomes every publication...

...This chapter examines Jewish attitudes toward Poles. The behaviour of the various subordinate minorities of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth towards Polish hegemony covers a broad theoretical spectrum: from rebellious through resigned, to accepting, to assimilationist. At one extreme...

...From 1772 to 1918 Jews were concentrated more densely in Galicia than in any other area in Europe. This book explores the Jewish community in Galicia and its relationship with the Poles, Ukranians, and other ethnic groups. Chapters include discussions of the consequences of Galician autonomy...

... education, which they saw as endangering traditional religious teaching, and Poles that were afraid of Hirsch's foundation on engaging in a large-scale process of buying land belonging to Poles. It analyzes Bolesław Prus's attitude to the issue of vocational education for Jews to understand his critical...

... status, had been aired already in the 18th century. Such ideas were strengthened in the 19th century, both in the minds of Poles and some Jews, so that in the wake of the January rising this problem was raised together with the necessity for the Polish caste system to be destroyed. By the end...

... been the ‘borderlands of Western civilization’ is all too familiar: annexation, attempts at integration with the Empire, Russification fiercely resisted by the Poles, repeated insurrections, a recurrent state of crisis marked by the frequent imposition of martial law, economic stagnation (except...

..., the most noticeable observation is Rollet's view that until 1876, the Poles were best off under Prussian occupation. Another statement which also provides much food for thought is that during the liberal period, voluntary, spontaneous Germanization made consistent progress. Henry Rollet contemporary...

... to the ghetto inhabitants, Jews began to flee to Aryan districts. Some Poles provided security and housing to both known and unknown Jews. While some Polish Jews survived on forged documents, others remained in hiding without identification papers, unable to leave their hiding-places. Using Aryan documents...

...This chapter looks at the author's letter to his father. In the letter, the author reveals his point of view on certain fundamental problems. He concludes that Poles are not yet up to independence and sovereignty and that Jews have nothing in, and must not return to, Poland. Governing a state...

... and require no further explanation. In Chrostowski's statement, instead of openness, an eagerness for dialogue, and admission of transgressions, one finds a somewhat competitive, obstinate attitude. Such an attitude is not rare in this context. Some Poles think that the very fact that they are interested...

... of social observation. Poles and Ukrainians, by contrast, are marginal presences in his works. Indeed, the thrust of his writing appears to be to underscore the separateness of the Jews in Galicia, the gulf that existed between them and their Christian neighbours prior to the First World War...

.... But for a few who managed to run away and hide, all the town's Jews perished that day, at the hands of their Polish neighbours. Gross allowed a year to elapse between the publication of the Polish and English editions of his book, to give Poles a chance to debate the matter before the international spotlight...

...This chapter provides a background on the ways in which Jews and Poles have remembered, represented, and memorialized the Holocaust. It recounts the effort to renew dialogue between Jewish and Polish intellectuals, focusing on Jewish and Polish memories of the Holocaust as the central issue...

.... It also explains how the photos convey the isolation of Jews in their performance of their most human of obligations, as the spaces in which they bury their dead are otherwise eerily empty. The chapter notes that no Poles appear in the photos, apart from Polish workers hired to exhume corpses or to dig...