Polish anti-semitism

michael pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Mon Mar 11 10:48:11 PST 2002


The Warsaw Voice - News ... in Poland." He recalled that the Polish-American Congress had spent years trying to ... Poles as a nation that drinks in anti-semitism along with its mother's milk ... http://www.corecomm.net/mikerose/poisonpn.htm

In '68, after student leftists like Karol Modzelewski, Jacek Kuron and Adam Michnik (see Daniel Singer's book on Solidarity published by Monthly Review Press and Modzelewski and Kuron's, "Open Letter to the Polish United Workers Party aka CP, published at the time in Trotskyist journals and in [the first round of publication], New Politics) agitated against the authorities, there was a anti-semitic purge of the CP led by General Moczar.

More on the Polish CP (and anti-semitism) see the oral historyof the Party, "Them, "

edited by Toranowska, if memory serves. Isaac Deutscher in, "Marxism, Wars and Revolutions, " from Verso has a chapter on the WWII and prior experierence of the Polish CP. A huge chunk of the leadership was slaughtered by Uncle Joe Stalin, after they were deportered to the USSR after the '39 Pact.

A controversy that erupted after the publication of the Jan T. Gross book from Yale Univ. Press on a massacre of Polish Jews during WWII, can be followed in the pgs. of TNR archives from the irasible Wieseltier in reply to Adam Michnik.

Lastly, "Shoah, " directed by Claude Lanzmann. Michael Pugliese



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