| Physical description |
pages cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I Initial Reporting -- "Burnt Offering," Rzeczpospolita, 5 May 2000 / Andrzej Kaczynski 50 -- "The Blood of Jedwabne," Kontakty, 7 May 2000 / Gabriela Szczesna 60 -- "In Memory and Admonition," Gazeta Wspolczesna 11 July 2000 / Maria Kaczynska 64 -- Part II Moral Debate -- "Prophecies Are Being Fulfilled," Prawda, May 1942 / Zofia Kossak-Szczucka 72 -- "Obsessed with Innocence," Gazeta Wyborcza, 13-14 January 2001 / Joanna Tokarska-Bakir 75 -- "A Need for Compensation," Rzeczpospolita, 26 January 2001 / Jan Nowak-Jezioranski 87 -- "The Revolution of Nihilism," Glos, 3 February 2001 / Antoni Macierewicz 93 -- "The Shortsightedness of the 'Cultured,'" Gazeta Wyborcza, 6 April 2001 / Hanna Swida-Ziemba 103 -- "Homo Jedvabicus," Wprost, 22 July 2001 / Jerzy Slawomir Mac 114 -- Part III Official Statements -- Living in Truth: Special Statement by Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek regarding the Slaughter of Jews in Jedwabne in 1941, April 2001 125 -- Address Delivered by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., 5 April 2001 126 -- Address by President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski at the Ceremonies in Jedwabne Marking the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Jedwabne Tragedy on 10 July 2001 130 -- Findings of Investigation S 1/00/Zn into the Murder of Polish Citizens of Jewish Origin in the Town of Jedwabne on 10 July 1941, pursuant to Article 1 Point 1 of the Decree of 31 August 1944 133 -- "Jedwabne--Let Us Be Silent in the Face of This Crime: Piotr Lipinski Talks with Professor Andrzej Rzeplinski," Gazeta Wyborcza, 22 July 2002 137 -- Part IV Debate in the Catholic Church -- "A Poor Christian Looks at Jedwabne: Adam Boniecki and Michal Okonski Talk with Archbishop Henryk Muszynski," Tygodnik Powszechny, 25 March 2001 155 -- Interview with the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, on the Murder of Jews in Jedwabne, 15 May 2001 166 -- Rev. Stanislaw Musial, "We Ask You to Help Us Be Better," Gazeta Wyborcza, 23 May 2001 173 -- Part V Voices of the Inhabitants of Jedwabne -- "We Are Different People: A Discussion about Jedwabne in Jedwabne," Wiez, April 2001 186 -- Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, "My Jedwabne" 200 -- Part VI Memories and Methodologies: The Historical Debate -- "Collaboration Passed Over in Silence," Rzeczpospolita, 27 January 2001 / Tomasz Strzembosz 220 -- "How to Grapple with the Perplexing Legacy," Polityka, 10 February 2001 / Jerzy Jedlicki 237 -- "A Roundtable Discussion: Jedwabne--Crime and Memory," Rzeczpospolita, 3 March 2001 247 -- "We of Jedwabne," Gazeta Wyborcza, 23 March 2001 / Anna Bikont 267 -- "The Pogrom in Jedwabne: Critical Remarks about Jan T. Gross's Neighbors" / Bogdan Musial 304 -- "Critical Remarks Indeed" / Jan Gross 344 -- "Jedwabne without Stereotypes: Agnieszka Sabor and Marek Zajac Talk with Professor Tomasz Szarota," Tygodnik Powszechny, 28 April 2002 371 -- "Jedwabne: How Was It Possible?" / Dariusz Stola 386 -- Part VII Discussion Outside Poland -- "Introduction to the Hebrew Edition of Neighbors" / David Engel 408 -- "Do the Poor Poles Really Look at the Ghetto? Introduction to Hebrew Edition of Neighbors" / Israel Gutman 414 -- "Heroes and Victims" (Extracts), New York Review of Books, 31 May 2001 / Istvan Deak 421 -- "Jedwabne and the Selling of the Holocaust," Polish American Journal, May 2001 / Richard Lukas 430 -- "Poles and the Jews: How Deep the Guilt?" New York Times, 17 March 2001 / Adam Michnik 434 -- "Washington Diarist: Righteous" and an Exchange of Letters, New Republic, 9, 17, and 24 April 2001 / Leon Wieseltier, Adam Michnik 440. |
| Summary |
Neighbors -- Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors -- was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from the moment of its publication, the occasion of intense controversy and painful reckoning. This book captures some of the most important voices in the ensuing debate, including those of residents of Jedwabne itself as well as those of journalists, intellectuals, politicians, Catholic clergy, and historians both within and well beyond Poland's borders. |
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Antony Polonsky and Joanna Michlic introduce the debate, focusing particularly on how Neighbors rubbed against difficult old and new issues of Polish social memory and national identity. The editors then present a variety of Polish voices grappling with the role of the massacre and of Polish-Jewish relations in Polish history. They include samples of the various strategies used by Polish intellectuals and political elites as they have attempted to deal with their country's dark past, to overcome the legacy of the Holocaust, and to respond to Gross's book. |
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The Neighbors Respond makes the debate over Neighbors available to an English-speaking audience -- and is an excellent tool for bringing the discussion into the classroom. It constitutes an engrossing contribution to modern Jewish history, to our understanding of Polish modern history and identity, and to our bank of Holocaust memory. |
| Other author |
Polonsky, Antony.
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Michlic, Joanna B.
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| Subject |
Gross, Jan Tomasz. Sąsiedzi.
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Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Jedwabne.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Poland -- Jedwabne.
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Antisemitism -- Poland -- Jedwabne -- History -- 20th century.
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Jedwabne (Poland) -- Ethnic relations.
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| ISBN |
0691116431 (alkaline paper) |
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0691113068 (paperback: alkaline paper) |
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