Żydzi i Polacy 1918-1955
współistnienie, zagłada, komunizm
Description:... Examines Polish-Jewish relations and conflicts in the first half of the 20th century. Contends that the main problems of both societies were accommodation and opposition to modernity and to revolutionary movements. Traditionalists on both sides did not find a proper way to fight their common enemy, the left. The governments in interwar Poland favored a Polish majority, and there was a myth of "Żydokomuna", according to which all Jews were leftist, liberal, anti-traditionalist, and hostile to Poland. Concentrates on activities of opponents of Nazism and communism during the war, when the "Zydokomuna" myth was even stronger because some of the Jews had collaborated with the Soviets in Eastern Poland. In the immediate postwar period most Jewish survivors left Poland because of the communist regime, the lack of personal safety, and the impossibility of retrieving property. Notes that because the Red Army had liberated some Jewish survivors, the Jews viewed Hitler differently than Stalin, but for Poles there was no difference between the two tyrants.
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