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Polish-Jewish Relations Since 1984: Reflections of a Participant / Stosunki polsko-zydowskie od 1984 roku: Refleksje uczestnika
PolishJewish Relations Since 1984 Reflections of a Participant / Stosunki polskozydowskie od 1984 roku Refleksje uczestnika Author:Antony Polonsky "Since the Second World War the interaction between Poles and Jews has taken place in a number of different arenas. In the first place, a fairly substantial Jewish community did emerge in post-war Poland, numbering at its height nearly 300,000. It proved very difficult to maintain its viability given the memory of the Holocaust, the persistence ... more »of anti-Semitism and the impact of communist politics. As a result it suffered constant hemorrhaging with waves of emigration intensifying particularly after the Kielce pogrom in July 1946, in 1956-1957, and in the aftermath of the 'anti-Zionist' campaign of 1968. The end of communism has led to a revival of Jewish life in Poland and today there are perhaps some 30,000 people connected in some way with Jewish life. Throughout the post-war period Jews from Poland have played an important role both in the investigation of the Polish-Jewish past and in the evolution of Polish-Jewish relations." ---------------------------------- Antony Polonsky is Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Until 1991, he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972), The Little Dictators (1975), The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976), co--author of A History of Modern Poland (1980) and Th e Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981) and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: an Anthology (2001) and The Neighbors Respond: the Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004). His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1, 1350-1881; volume 2, 1881-1914 (2009).« less