Rethinking Poles and Jews Troubled Past, Brighter Future

by Cherry, Robert; Orla-Bukowska, Annamaria; Aleksiun, Natalia; Baron, Lawrence; Ben-Sasson, Havi; Billauer, Guy; Biskupski, Mieczyslaw B.; Krajewski, Stanislaw; Michlic, Joanna B.; Pawlikowski, John; Penn, Shana; Polonsky, Antony; Radzilowski, Thaddeus; Sch

• ISBN13: 9780742546653
• ISBN10: 0742546659
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-07
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Rethinking Poles and Jews focuses on the role of Holocaust-related material in perpetuating anti-Polish images and describes organizational efforts to combat them. Without minimizing contemporary Polish anti-Semitism, it also presents more positive material on contemporary Polish-American organizations and Jewish life in Poland.

Table of Contents

A Polish Christian-Jewish timeline
Introduction : confronting negative stereotypes : Polish behavior in wartime and contemporary Poland
Anti-Pollsh Stereotypes
Introduction : anti-Polish stereotypes	p. 23
Poland and the Poles in the cinematic portrayal of the Holocaust	p. 27
Cinema in the crossfire of Jewish-Polish polemics : Wajda's Korczak and Polanski's The pianist	p. 43
American press coverage of Poland's role in the Holocaust	p. 55
Measuring anti-Polish biases among Holocaust teachers	p. 69
Contextual understanding and dialogue
Introduction : Polish-Jewish relations in America	p. 83
Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust : a changing Jewish viewpoint	p. 89
Polish and Jewish historiography of Jewish-Polish relations during World War II	p. 99
The Holocaust : a continuing challenge for Polish-Jewish relations	p. 109
Polish-Jewish relations since 1984 : reflections of a participant	p. 121
Contemporary Poland
Introduction : Polish-Jewish relations in Poland : where have we come from and where are we headed?	p. 137
The evolution of Catholic-Jewish relations in Poland after 1989	p. 141
Antisemitism in contemporary Poland : does it matter? : and for whom does it matter?	p. 155
Polish historians respond to Jedwabne	p. 169
March of the living : confronting anti-Polish stereotypes	p. 189
Gentiles doing Jewish stuff : the contributions of Polish non-Jews to Polish Jewish life	p. 197
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