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    Contested Memories
    Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath

    Joshua D. Zimmerman (Edited by), Zvi Gitelman (Contributions by), Nechama Tec (Contributions by), Israel Gutman (Contributions by), John Pawlikowski (Contributions by), Daniel Blatman (Contributions by), Ben-Cion Pinchuk (Contributions by), Emanuel Melzer (Contributions by), Henry Abramson (Contributions by), Andrzej Zbikowski (Contributions by), Barbara Engelking-Boni (Contributions by), Ania Cichopek (Contributions by), Samuel Kassow (Contributions by), Bozena Szaynok (Contributions by), Dariusz Stola (Contributions by), Natalia Aleksiun (Contributions by), Shmuel Krakowski (Contributions by), David Engel (Contributions by), Stanislaw Krajewski (Contributions by), Feliks Tych (Contributions by), Gunnar Paulsson (Contributions by), Michael Steinlauf (Contributions by)

    9780813531588

    Hardback, published 10 January 2003

    348 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.596 kg

    This volume of essays offers a summary of scholarly thought on Polish-Jewish relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
    (H-Net Reviews)
    His introduction presents a concise and useful summary of Polish and Jewish historiography and public debate from the early 1980s.
    (Slavic Review)
    This book tries to pave the way for greater understanding by examining Polish-Jewish relations during three distinct historical periods.
    (Journal of Contemporary Religion)
    This book deserves praise for offering a fascinating insight into a significant piece of modern history.
    (Los Angeles Times)
    This well researched and gripping collection of essays will become a standard work on the subject.
    - Antony Polonsky (Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Me)

    Few issues have divided Poles and Jews more deeply than the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War and the subsequent slaughter of almost ninety percent of Polish Jewry. Many Jewish historians have argued that, during the occupation, Poles at best displayed indifference to the fate of the Jews and at worst were willing accomplices of the Nazis. Many Polish scholars, however, deny any connection between the prewar culture of antisemitism and the wartime situation. They emphasized that Poles were also victims of the Nazis and, for the most part, tried their best to protect the Jews.

    This collection of essays, representing three generations of Polish and Jewish scholars, is the first attempt since the fall of Communism to reassess the existing historiography of Polish-Jewish relations just before, during, and after the Second World War. In the spirit of detached scholarly inquiry, these essays fearlessly challenge commonly held views on both sides of the debates. The authors are committed to analyzing issues fairly and to reaching a mutual understanding. Contributors cover six topics:
    1. The prewar legacy
    2. The deterioration of Polish-Jewish relations during the first years of the war
    3. Institutional Polish responses to the Nazi Final Solution
    4. Poles and the Polish nation through Jewish eyes
    5. The destruction of European Jewry and Polish popular opinion
    6. Polish-Jewish relations since 1945

    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Abbreviations
    Introduction: Changing Perceptions in the Historiography of Polish-Jewish Relations during the Second World War
    PART I. The Prewar Legacy    
    Emigration versus Emigrationism: Zionism in Poland and the Territorialist Projects of the Polish Authorities, 1936--1939
    Lwow, 1918: The Transmutation of a Symbol and Its Legacy in the Holocaust
    PART II. The Widening Gap, 1939--1941    
    Psychological Distance between Poles and Jews in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw
    Polish Jews under Soviet Occupation, 1939--1941: Specific Strategies of Survival
    Facing Hitler and Stalin: On the Subject of Jewish "
    Collaboration'' in Soviet-Occupied Eastern Poland, 1939--1941
    Jews and Their Polish Neighbors: The Case of Jedwabne in the Summer of 1941
    PART III. Institutional Polish Responses to the Final Solution    
    The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Final Solution: What Conditioned Its Actions and Inactions?
    The Attitude of the Polish Underground to the Jewish Question during the Second World War
    Polish Catholics and the Jews during the Holocaust: Heroism, Timidity, and Collaboration
    PART IV. Poles through Jewish Eyes    
    Poland and the Polish Nation as Reflected in the Jewish Underground Press
    Jewish and Polish Perceptions of the Shoah as Reflected in Wartime Diaries and Memoirs
    Polish-Jewish Relations in the Writings of Emmanuel Ringelblum
    Metaphysical Nationality in the Warsaw Ghetto: Non-Jews in the Wartime Writings of Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapiro
    PART V. The Destruction of Polish Jewry and Polish Popular Opinion    
    Ringelblum Revisited: Polish-Jewish Relations in Occupied Warsaw, 1940--1945
    Hiding and Passing on the Aryan Side: A Gendered Comparison
    Some Issues in Jewish-Polish Relations during the Second World War
    PART VI. Aftermath    
    The Cracow Pogrom of August 1945: A Narrative Reconstruction
    The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Attitudes in Postwar Poland
    Jewish Responses to Antisemitism in Poland, 1944--1947
    Teaching about the Holocaust in Poland
    Collective Memory and Contemporary Polish-Jewish Relations
    The Impact of the Shoah on the Thinking of Contemporary Polish Jewry: A Personal Account
    List of Contributors
    Index
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