Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 13: Focusing on the Holocaust and its Aftermath

by Antony Polonsky

Overview

The assessment of the Nazi genocide in Poland, an issue which has deeply divided Poles and Jews, lies at the core of this volume. Also included are discussions of Polish attitudes to the nearly 300,000 Jews who tried to resettle in post-war Poland; the little-known testimony of Belzec survivor Rudolf Reder; a discussion of Holocaust victims as martyrs; and a presentation of how the Auschwitz Museum sees its future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781874774471
Publisher:	The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2000
Series:	Polin Studies in Polish Jewry , #13
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	498
Product dimensions:	0.10(w) x 0.10(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010-12), which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years.

Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010-12), which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years.

Editorial Reviews

Continues the periodical on Polish Jews sponsored by institutes at Oxford and Brandeis Universities with 31 articles; an interview with Marian Malowist; reviews of 14 recent books; an obituary of Teresa Prekerowa, and correspondence. Among the topics are the demography of Jews in hiding in Warsaw in 1943-45, antisemitism in Poland today, and a documentary account of the day after the pogrom. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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