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Tag: Polish Jewish History

0 Holocaust Culture

Bonjour Chai · 19 Sep

Tanya Gold shares her insights from visiting Auschwitz in a critical examination of Holocaust tourism, highlighting how it can often trivialize Jewish history and suffering.

0 History Antisemitism

Wikipedia’s Jewish Problem

Izabella Tabarovsky in Tablet · 25 Jul

A group of Wikipedia editors and administrators criticized the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its reliability on issues related to Israel, Zionism, antisemitism, and hate symbols.

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Opinion | Poland’s Democratic Comeback

Konstanty Gebert in Moment · 20 Nov 2023

Poland has a history of political ups and downs, with the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) ruling for eight years before losing the recent general elections to a centrist-progressive coalition.

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Polish Responsibility for the Holocaust Was Not Minor

Andrew Apostolou in Tablet · 3 May 2023

The book "Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland" highlights the significant role played by local non-Jewish populations in the Holocaust.

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The Yiddish-Speaking Hitmen’s Union

Eddy Portnoy in Jewish Review of Books · 3 Jan 2021

"The King of Warsaw" by Szczepan Twardoch is a crime novel set in interwar Poland that explores the underworld of Jewish gangsters in Warsaw.

0 History Holocaust

Poland Is Not Ukraine: A Response to Konstanty Gebert’s “The Ukrainian Question”

Dovid Katz in Jewish Review of Books · 16 Sep 2014

Konstanty Gebert in response to "The Ukrainian Question" discusses the differing perspectives in Eastern European countries like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine regarding their historical narratives, nationalism, and attitudes towards Nazi collaborators.