Part 1 Foreward Part 2 Preface Part 3 Introduction: Confronting Negative Stereotypes: Polish Behavior in Wartime and Contemporary Poland Part 4 Anti-Polish Stereotypes Chapter 5 Introduction: Anti-Polish Stereotypes Chapter 6 Poland and the Poles in the Cinematic Portrayal of the Holocaust Chapter 7 Cinema in the Crossfire of Jewish-Polish Polemics: Wajda's Korczak and Polanski's The Pianist Chapter 8 American Press Coverage of Poland's Role in the Holocaust Chapter 9 Measuring Anti-Polish Biases Among Holocaust Teachers Part 10 Contextual Understanding and Dialogue Chapter 11 Introduction: Polish-Jewish Relations in America Chapter 12 Polish-Jewish Relations during the Holocaust: A Changing Jewish Viewpoint Chapter 13 Polish and Jewish Historiography of Jewish-Polish Relations during World War II Chapter 14 The Holocaust: A Continuing Challenge for Polish-Jewish Relations Chapter 15 Polish-Jewish Relations since 1984: Reflections of a Participant Part 16 Contemporary Poland Chapter 17 Introduction: Polish-Jewish Relations in Poland: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Headed? Chapter 18 The Evolution of Catholic-Jewish Relations after 1989 Chapter 19 Antisemitism in Contemporary Poland: Does It Matter? And For Whom Does It Matter? Chapter 20 Polish Historians Respond to Jedwabne Chapter 21 March of the Living: Confronting Anti-Polish Stereotypes Chapter 22 Gentiles Doing Jewish Stuff: The Contributions of Polish Non-Jews to Polish Jewish Life
Robert Cherry is professor of economics at Brooklyn College. He has written dozens of articles and four books on discrimination, and has written extensively on the American Jewish community and the Holocaust. He is the author of Who Gets the Good Jobs? Combating Race and Gender Earnings Disparities, Prosperity for All? The Economic Boom and African Americans, Discrimination: Its Economic Impact on Blacks, Women, and Jews, and The Imperiled Economy: Macroeconomics from a Left Perspective. Annamaria Orla-Bukowska teaches in the sociology department at Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
These probing essays make a profound contribution to enhanced
understanding between today’s democratic Poland and the Jewish
people.
*David A. Harris, executive director, American Jewish
Committee*
In a masterful fashion and with breathtaking reach, the authors in
this collection both complicate and clarify the historically tense
relationship between Jews and Poles. As stereotypes are replaced
with facts by Jewish and non-Jewish authors alike, the powerful
truth emerges: that without the work of Polish non-Jews the Polish
Jewish historical and cultural heritage would be lost. The value of
this conclusion will not be lost on readers whose work and lives
depend on the preservation of that heritage. Robert Cherry and
Annamaria Orla-Bukowska are to be congratulated on their stunning
accomplishment.
*Holli Levitsky, Loyola Marymount University, affiliated professor
of the University of Haifa*
This collection of essays represents a compelling analysis of the
complex, tortured, and often tragic relationship between Poles and
Jews. Taken as a whole, the book exposes the distortions,
inaccuracies and misunderstandings that have divided these two
peoples in recent history. While exploring the roots of mutual
antagonisms, the essays do not whitewash the real issues that
continue to separate Jews and Poles, even today. While offering an
honest, objective examination of persistent sources of Polish
anti-Semitism as well as Jewish anti-Polanism, the authors
nevertheless find many hopeful signs of improved relations...In
sum, this new study is a welcome and most necessary curative to the
high inflammatory dialogue that has often set Jews and Poles
apart.
*Donald Schwartz, California State University, Long Beach*
The authors of the essays written for this volume, Poles and Jews,
are some of the most knowledgeable and committed participants in
the contemporary Polish-Jewish dialogue. Their writings are a ray
of light amidst the acrimonious and generally uninformed polemics
that still dominate so much of Polish-Jewish relations today.
*Michael C. Steinlauf, Gratz College; author of Bondage to the
Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust*
As vast as they are vexed, controversies about the relationships
between Polish Christians and Polish Jews continue to swirl long
after the Holocaust, which intensified so many tensions between
those communities. Robert Cherry and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska have
performed an important scholarly and ethical service by enlisting
highly qualified scholars to analyze those wartime relationships
and their aftereffects. This carefully crafted book does more than
clarify complex interactions. It shows how sound scholarship can
improve human understanding.
*John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and
director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and
Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College*
In my home town, Otwock, before WWII there used to be five
synagogues and just one Roman Catholic church. Today there are ten
churches and no Jews. But more and more ethnic Poles discover that
our collective memory would be false without Jews.
Unfortunately, Jewish-Polish relationships are full of stereotypes.
If you want your opinions on the relations between these two ethnic
groups to be based on facts, Rethinking Poles and Jews is a must.
The authors precisely distinguish truth from misconceptions.
*Zbigniew Nosowski, Editor-in-chief of the Warsaw Catholic monthly
review WIEZ, Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (in
the Vatican), Chairman of the Citizens' Committee for Remembrance
of the Jews of Otwock and Karczew*
I strongly recommend Rethinking Poles and Jews: Trouble Past,
Brighter Future edited by Robert Cherry and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska
for a series of essays that pierce the stereotypes which have
obscured historical reality.
*Deborah E. Lipstadt, Emory University; author of Denying the
Holocaust*
The contributors to Rethinking Poles and Jews are knowledgeable
persons, experienced in Polish-Jewish dialogue, whose individual
efforts over the years have helped to bring about the 'brighter
future' foreseen in the subtitle.
*The Polonia Portal*
The essays in this book attempt to demystify the claims and charges
made, to shed some light on an emotional issue and to provide
information and perspective in our search for understanding and
reconciliation. The editors, Cherry and Orla-Bukowska, are to be
commended for their efforts.
*Jewish Book World*
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