The expulsion of jews from communist Poland

• Verfasst von: Plocker, Anat [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The expulsion of jews from communist Poland
• Titelzusatz: memory wars and homeland anxieties
• Verf.angabe: Anat Plocker
• Verlagsort: Bloomington, Indiana, USA
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Jahr: 2022
• Umfang: xvi, 219 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The modern Jewish experience
• Fussnoten: Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
• ISBN: 978-0-253-05865-2
• ISBN: 978-0-253-05866-9
• Schlagwörter: (g)Polen / (s)Politik / (s)Antisemitismus / (s)Vertreibung / (s)Juden / (z)Geschichte 1967-1968
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Plocker, Anat: The expulsion of Jews from communist Poland. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2022. - 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Rezensiert in: Kichelewski, Audrey, 1978 - : [Rezension von: Plocker, Anat, ca. 20./21. Jh., The expulsion of Jews from communist Poland : memory wars and homeland anxieties]
• RVK-Notation: NY 4770
• RVK-Notation: NQ 8280
• K10plus-PPN: 1763809978

Abstract

In March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. This book is the first full-length study of the events, their precursors, and the aftermath of this turbulent period.

Abstract

Plocker offers a new framework for understanding how this antisemitic campaign was motivated by a genuine fear of Jewish influence and international power. She sheds new light on the internal dynamics of the communist regime in Poland, stressing the importance of middle-level functionaries, whose dislike and fear of Jews had an unmistakable impact on the evolution of party policy.

Abstract

This volume examines how Communist Party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka's anti-Zionist rhetoric spiraled out of hand and opened up a fraught Pandora's box of old assertions that Jews controlled the Communist Party, the revival of nationalist chauvinism, and a witch hunt in universities and workplaces that conjured up ugly memories of Nazi Germany.