Polin, 1968: Forty Years After (21) - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1904113362 ISBN 13 : 9781904113362

Editeur : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008

Synopsis

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry: 1968: Forty Years After v. 21 Poland's antisemitic pronouncements of March 1968 led nearly 15,000 Jews to emigrate. Considering the denouement of this crisis from many angles, this volume shows that these were intrinsic to the eventual collapse of communism. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the mid-1960s, public opinion in Poland turned against the Gomulka regime for a variety of reasons. In an attempt to regain public support and divert attention from the real problems, Gomulka adopted an antisemitic stance. On 19 March 1968 he delivered a speech to party activists in which he divided Jews into three categories: patriotic Jews , Zionists , and those who were neither Jews nor Poles but cosmopolitans , who should avoid those fields of work where the affirmation of nationality is indispensable . In consequence, nearly 15,000 Jews - a very large part of Poland s Jewish community - left for Israel, western Europe, and North America, effectively ending Jewish life in the country for over a decade. The events of 1968 were long ignored by scholars but in recent years their importance in the process which led to the collapse of communism has become increasingly evident. This volume illuminates the events that triggered the crisis, the crisis itself, and its consequences. Different aspects of this are examined by Dariusz Stola, Jerzy Eisler, and Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum, while the role of the the Polish Military Intelligence Service during 1945-1961 in precipitating the crisis is analyzed by Leszek Gluchowski. Several contributors consider the background to the crisis in terms of the concerns of the Jewish community. Audrey Kichelewski describes developments in the community between the consolidation of Gomulka s power in 1957 and the outbreak of the Six Day War. Malgorzata Melchior examines how Jews who had survived in Poland during the Second World War responded to the crisis. Joanna Wiszniewicz provides a group portrait of pupils of Jewish origin in Warsaw schools in the 1960s, a milieu from which important elements in the student opposition were drawn. Karen Auerbach sharpens the focus in her consideration of the situation of Yiddish writer Naftali Herts Kon, while Holly Levitsky describes the travails of the Jewish communist writer Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. The book also reprints the testimonies of several people who lived through these painful events: Jerzy Jedlicki, Henryk Dasko, and Miroslaw Sawicki. Bozena Szaynok analyses the rhetoric of the period and examines the role of Israel in the crisis. The controversies which it still arouses are reflected in the exchange between generals Pióro and Jaruzelski concerning the impact of the purge of Jewish officers from the Polish People s Army and in the responses to the publication by Piotr Gontarczyk of a report on the role of Jacek Kuron in 1968. As in previous volumes of Polin, in the section New Views substantial space is also given to new research into a variety of topics in Polish Jewish studies. These include a study by Kalman Weiser of the Yiddishist Ideology of Noah Prylucki; an reassessment by Julian Bussgang of the role of Metropolitan Sheptytsky during the Holocaust; an account by Michael Beizer and Israel Bartal of the tragic career of Moses Schorr; an evaluation by Krzysztof Czyzewski of the work of the Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski; and a description of the reception in Poland of Art Spiegelman s Maus. CONTRIBUTORS Karen Auerbach, Israel Bartal, Michael Beizer, Teresa Bogucka, Julian Bussgang, Wojciech Czuchnowski, Krzysztof Czyzewski, Henryk Dasko, Jerzy Eisler, Leszek W. Gluchowski, Piotr Gontarczyk, Anna Jarmusiewicz, Wojciech Jaruszelski, Jerzy Jedlicki, Audrey Kichelewski, Holli Levitsky, Krzysztof Link-Lenczowski, Tomasz Lysak, Jacek Maj, Malgorzata Melchior, Joanna B. Michlic, Karol Modzelewski, Tadeusz Pióro, Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum, Maciej Rybinski, Dariusz Stola, Bozena Szaynok, Kalman Weiser, Joanna Wisniewicz, Tadeusz Witkowski, Piotr Wróbel, Rafal Ziemiewicz

Revue de presse :

Without a doubt, an important contribution to the study of the folk and popular culture of Polish Jewry . . . Such an important collection of articles . . . must be read from cover to cover. --Itzik Gottesman, Forverts

This massive volume is a pioneering step in the study of popular Jewish culture in Poland . . . a fascinating collection. --Shulamith Z. Berger, AJL Newsletter

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1904113362
• ISBN 13: 9781904113362
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 550