Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
52,2-3 (2022) 182-234
Keywords:
Mark, Bernard,
;
Mark, Bernard, Diaries
;
Jewish communists Biography
;
Communist ethics History
Abstract:
Ber (Bernard) Mark (1908–1966) was born in Łomża, then Congress Poland. Before the Second World War, he joined the Communist Party of Poland (KPP). He spent the war years in the USSR, where he worked for the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and headed the Organizational Committee of Polish Jews. Upon his return to Poland, he became active in Jewish Communist organizations. From 1949 until his death, he served as director of the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH), notorious for his pro-Communist version of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After 1956, he distanced himself from his earlier opinions and began to renew ties with the Soviet Jews and Israel. From the early 1960s, he was placed under surveillance by the Security Service (SB). In the last year of his life, Mark kept a diary in Yiddish in which he openly voiced his criticism of current affairs in Poland and Polish-Jewish relations.
Note:
Includes an English translation of the diaries originally written in Yiddish.
DOI:
10.1080/13501674.2022.2083505
URL:
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