ISBN:
9781501771484
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 570 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2023
Uniform Title:
Pod klątwą
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tokarska-Bakir, Joanna Cursed
DDC:
943.8/45004924
Keywords:
Jews History 20th century
;
Pogroms History 20th century
;
Jews Persecutions 20th century
;
History
;
Antisemitism
;
Trials (Murder) Sources
;
Trials (Hate crimes) Sources
;
HISTORY / Holocaust
;
HISTORY / Jewish
;
Holocaust
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
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Social & cultural history
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften
;
The Holocaust
;
Kielce (Poland) Ethnic relations
;
Kielce (Poland) Biography
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Pogrom
;
Antisemitismus
Abstract:
"Based on previously unexamined archival records and oral testimonies, the book details the 1946 Kielce pogrom, in which many dozens of Jews were killed or wounded. Shocked Polish Jews, most of whom had survived ghettos and death camps or exile in the Soviet Union, fled to the West, bringing nearly to an end a thousand years of Jewish life in Poland"-
Abstract:
In Cursed, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics. Tokarska-Bakir weaves together the voices of the Kielce pogrom survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators with a myriad of other archival sources. Her meticulous research exposes wartime and postwar biographies of local factory workers, city and church officials, local police officers, and members of the security service, some of whom participated in the Holocaust and then directly or indirectly participated in the Kielce pogrom. Tokarska-Bakir paints a social portrait that explores people's behavior in light of forces and emotions greater than themselves. She reconstructs a postwar communist system that, despite promises to combat deeply rooted antisemitism, not only failed to prevent its spread but turned a blind eye to it and eventually used it to legitimize itself. Cursed is a microhistory that recreates the events of the Kielce pogrom step by step and examines the dominant hypotheses about the pogrom through the prism of previously classified archival evidence. It offers readers a nuanced analysis that cuts across social and ideological divisions. The resulting narrative is filled with new discoveries not only about the Kielce pogrom but about the nature of antisemitism, hostility toward minorities, and collective violence.Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Description / Table of Contents:
Voices -- Physical evidence -- Henio and others -- The authorities -- The people's authorities and the Jews -- Rashōmon -- Dog days -- A moveable feast -- The custodians of Freedom Square -- Trains -- The Office of Public Security (UB) -- The Kielce police (MO) -- Provincial Governor Wiślicz-Iwańczyk and his people -- The military men -- The boogeyman.
Note:
"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum"
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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