[lbo-talk] Polish Catholics and Jews

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

>    Of the millions before WWII, there were thousands of Polish Jews
after
> the war. Cf., "Shoah, " directed by J.P.Sartre friend, Claude
Lanzmann.
>    In '68, Mieczyslaw Moczar led an anti-semitic purge of the PUWP and
> other institutions.
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism
>  Immediately following this was a nation-wide anti-Jewish purge,
removing
> Jews from their jobs in the government, universities, and many other
> fields. This purge was directed by the minister of the interior, and
head
> of the security police, Mieczyslaw Moczar.
> 

It was much more complicated than that.  1968 was the so-called student
revolt (because it was students who took it to the streets), but in
reality it was a push for a reform supported by many intellectuals and
party reformists.  The purge was aimed at the reformists and
intellectuals, while anti-semitic overtones used by the Moczar faction
was really a rather minor side show. 

Wojtek