Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Gal-Ed; on the History of the Jews in Poland
Angaben zur Quelle:
18 (2002) 101-117
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Pogroms
;
Kielce (Poland)
Abstract:
Presents a translation of a previously unpublished article which was written in 1946 by his father, Witold Kula (1916-1988), a historian and professor at Warsaw University, a month after the pogrom in Kielce, for the Marxist weekly "Kuźnica". The article was rejected by the journal as too sharply-worded. Kula had noted that the main problem with the pogrom was not the fact that there was a hard core of leaders who instigated it, but that nearly one-third of the adult residents of Kielce participated in it. He stated that aggressive antisemitism is deeply rooted in Polish society and that the cure for this evil will be a lengthy process of social reconstruction. He proposed a propaganda campaign against antisemitism, directed first at intellectuals and members of political parties, and later at the broad masses. Kula linked antisemitism with the old regime and believed that it would disappear in the new socialist Poland. Pp. 101-106 contain an introduction by Marcin Kula describing the personality of his father, and his views on antisemitism.
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