Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,3 (2007) 135-176
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1918-1945
;
Jews Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
After the fall of communism in Poland, two schools emerged in Polish historiography with regard to Polish-Jewish relations and Polish relations with ethnic minorities in general: an ethno-nationalist school, and a more modern critical school. The first school regards Poles as a "host nation" and refuses to recognize Jews and other minorities as part of the Polish nation, while the second tends to integrate the history of Polish Jews, in particular the Holocaust, into modern Polish social history. The ethno-nationalist school maintains the stereotype of anti-Polish and pro-Soviet Jews, which helps to rationalize and explain the participation of ethnic Poles in killing their Jewish neighbors. Since 2000, these schools have clashed in their response to the Jedwabne massacre, which was the theme of Jan T. Gross's book "Neighbors". Discusses the views of historians representing the ethno-nationalist tendency - Chodakiewicz, Musial, Strzembosz, and Wierzbicki - on Polish-Jewish relations during World War II and immediately after, as well as of those who challenge the cliché of pro-Soviet Jews - Gross, Jasiewicz, Libionka, and Żbikowski.
Note:
Another version appeared in "Shared History - Divided Memory" (2007) 67-101.
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