Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Gross Jan

Author:Gross, Jan [Gross, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2007-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

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ŻYDOKOMUNA

THE POINT OF CONTACT among three themes that we have followed in this book—Jews, Communism, and Polish antiSemitism—is conveniently provided by a stereotype conveyed in one word: żydokomuna. “Judeo-Communism,” żydokomuna, is primarily an anti-Semitic slur which informs us about the relationship between Poles and Communism. But since the subject of this book is Polish anti-Semitism after Auschwitz, I take up some of żydokomuna ’s stereotypical assertions— specifically, that Jews had en masse supported Communism in Poland before the war and made up a vast majority of its adherents, while after the war they enjoyed a privileged position in the regime and benefited from it while imposing it on everybody else. I propose to first examine the stereotype as it emerges in the years prior to the imposition of Communism in Poland, in order to help readers make up their minds “whether the ‘Jewish Communism’ myth bears any relationship to the actual behaviour of Jews.” 1

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