Volume 30, Number 9 · June 2, 1983
The Ghost in Poland
By Abraham Brumberg
Poland: Communism, Nationalism, Anti-Semitism
by Michael Checinski, translated in part by Tadeusz Szafar
Karz-Cohl Publishing, 289 pp., $22.95
Anti-Semitism continues to haunt Poland, long after the country's once populous Jewish community has ceased to exist. As a Polish Catholic writer once bitterly observed, 'Polish anti-Semitism…succeeded in achieving something difficult as well as appalling—it out-lived the Polish Jews themselves.'[1] Many Polish intellectuals—whether Catholic, liberal, social democratic—have condemned the hatred of Jews throughout recent Polish history and have tried to examine the reasons why it persists. In so doing, however, they have frequently ignored its roots in Polish society, preferring instead to explain it as deriving mainly from outside forces.
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