Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community of Jedwabne in Poland
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community of Jedwabne in Poland
19.99 €
In early July 1941, in the first weeks of the German occupation of Eastern Poland, terrible pogroms against Jews took place, perpetrated not by Germans but by Poles. The most brutal pogrom took place on July 10 in the town of Jedwabno: its Polish residents herded hundreds of their Jewish neighbors into a barn and burned them alive. For many years, this event remained covered by a thick double curtain - of silence and reticence. This curtain was completely removed by the book by Jan Tomasz Gross "Neighbors. The History of the Destruction of a Jewish Town", published in May 2000 in Polish.
The author is a Polish-American historian and sociologist, an expert not so much on the Holocaust as on Eastern European history. The book was read by all of Poland, and it immediately divided Polish society, accustomed to the exalted image of their country as the Christ of Nations. The Poles experienced such a burn and such a painful shock from "Neighbors" as they had never experienced before.
The book is accompanied by three afterwords written by historian Pawel Polian. The first is dedicated to the history of the so-called "eastern borderlands" - a geographical area to which Jedwabne belongs. The second is about Jan Gross's book itself - this burn book - and the enormous resonance it caused. And the third is about other works in this unique genre of "burn works".
The book is intended for a wide range of readers interested in the history of World War II, the history of the Holocaust and the history of Poland.
The author is a Polish-American historian and sociologist, an expert not so much on the Holocaust as on Eastern European history. The book was read by all of Poland, and it immediately divided Polish society, accustomed to the exalted image of their country as the Christ of Nations. The Poles experienced such a burn and such a painful shock from "Neighbors" as they had never experienced before.
The book is accompanied by three afterwords written by historian Pawel Polian. The first is dedicated to the history of the so-called "eastern borderlands" - a geographical area to which Jedwabne belongs. The second is about Jan Gross's book itself - this burn book - and the enormous resonance it caused. And the third is about other works in this unique genre of "burn works".
The book is intended for a wide range of readers interested in the history of World War II, the history of the Holocaust and the history of Poland.
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