Download or read book Hugh Gibson and a Controversy Over Polish Jewish Relations After World War I written by Andrzej Kapiszewski and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents documents describing the activities of the first American ambassador in independent Poland, Hugh Gibson, in the period of the Paris Peace Conference, and documents on the Minorities Treaty, against the background of tension between the Polish and Jewish communities in the U.S. related to the situation of the Jews in Poland. Jewish American circles (led by Louis Marshall) considered Gibson an antisemite who distorted the facts in favor of the Poles. Deals also with Morgenthau's mission; he was sent to Poland by the American government to investigate the situation of the Jews. Analyzing documents and Gibson's diary, concludes that although he lacked understanding of the extent of antisemitism in Poland and of its possible consequences, it is difficult to accept the thesis of his antisemitism.
Download or read book A History of the Polish Americans written by John.J. Bukowczyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last, rootless decade families, neighborhoods, and communities have disintegrated in the face of gripping social, economic, and technological changes. Th is process has had mixed results. On the positive side, it has produced a mobile, volatile, and dynamic society in the United States that is perhaps more open, just, and creative than ever before. On the negative side, it has dissolved the glue that bound our society together and has destroyed many of the myths, symbols, values, and beliefs that provided social direction and purpose. In A History of the Polish Americans, John J. Bukowczyk provides a thorough account of the Polish experience in America and how some cultural bonds loosened, as well as the ways in which others persisted.
Download or read book Hugh Gibson and Controversy Over Polish Jewish Relations After World War 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poland between the Wars 1918 1939 written by Peter D. Stachura and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-12-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating selective papers from a successful conference organised by the Polish Society, this book presents challenging and frequently revisionist views on a variety of controversial themes relating to the interwar Polish Republic, including its struggle over Upper Silesia, the question of national identity and its ethnic minorities, the significance of the Battle of Warsaw, the role of the press and its defence preparations in 1939. The volume thus makes an important contribution to scholarly debate of a crucial period in Poland's recent history.
Download or read book Polish Jewish Relations in North America written by Mieczysław B. Biskupski and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland today is a very different country from the Poland of the past, yet attitudes inherited from the past continue to affect Polish-Jewish relations in the present. In Poland itself, now a free society, memories of the Jewish place in Poland's history, long suppressed by communism, are being re-evaluated. In America the attitudes that had divided the two sides in the Old Country seemed for a long time to be becoming more entrenched. This volume-probably the first comprehensive study of Polish-Jewish relations in North America-explores how this situation came about, and also considers the efforts being made to put the resentments caused by past conflicts to one side as the influences long dominant in the Polish-Jewish relationship in North America begin to lose their formative power. The contributors deal boldly with matters at the heart of the relationship. There is an attempt to quantify the attitudes of both sides to a number of key aspects of the Holocaust, and fascinating questions are raised about how the Holocaust has distorted the perceptions that Poles and Jews have of each other, and why the Holocaust remains a problem in Polish-Jewish relations. Stereotyping is confronted head-on. There is an investigation of how crude stereotypes of Polish peasants have found their way into Jewish history textbooks, crucially affecting the disposition of American Jews towards Poland, and of how the stereotyped world of the shtetl still haunts the American Jewish imagination, with great consequences for attitudes to Poles and Polish Americans. The way in which this stereotype is challenged by realities encountered in the context of the March of the Living is provocatively discussed, along with the options for dealing with a landscape 'poor in Jews, but rich in Jewish ruins'. A number of chapters describe attempts to overcome mutual stereotyping, including a detailed and valuable account of the National Polish American-Jewish American Council, and of the attempts that have been made to steer the Jedwabne debate in a constructive direction. These small beginnings show that it is possible to go beyond past differences and to concentrate instead on what has linked Poles and Jews in their long history. As in earlier volumes of Polin, substantial space is given, in 'New Views', to recent research in other areas of Polish-Jewish studies.
Download or read book Civil War in Central Europe 1918 1921 written by Jochen Böhler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged from 1918 to 1921. The fallen German, Russian, and Austrian Empires left in their wake lands with peoples of mixed nationalities and ethnicities. These lands soon became battle grounds and the ethno-political violence that ensued forced those living within them to decide on their national identity. Civil War in Central Europe seeks to challenge previous notions that such conflicts which occurred between the First and Second World Wars were isolated incidents and argues that they should be considered as part of a European war; a war which transformed Poland into a nation.
Download or read book Passion and Restraint written by Denis Clark and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of today’s international order can be traced to the experimentations with governance that occurred in central Europe immediately after World War I. And though Western governments did not bring about the creation of Poland on their own or determine all of its eventual borders, their attempts to do so left many lingering grudges and made the years immediately following the war a crucial period in Polish and international history. Passion and Restraint examines how British, French, and American foreign policymakers interacted with Poles and the idea of an independent Poland during this period. Western policymakers knew little about Poland in 1914, but by war’s end they were drawing the new country’s borders, sending humanitarian aid, and imposing minority protections. Attitudes regarding national character and emotional restraint were central, intertwined themes in British, French, and American diplomacy during this period of Polish rebirth, and policymakers’ opinions of national character evolved based on personal experiences, political conditions, and dominant understandings of the Polish people in the early twentieth century. Amid these changing attitudes, policymakers emphasized the necessity of Polish emotional restraint. Demonstrating how emotions and stereotypes were integral to diplomatic decision-making, Passion and Restraint brings attention to these often-overlooked historical factors, advancing a new lens for the study of Polish, European, and international history.
Download or read book Defending the Rights of Others written by Carole Fink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the period from 1878 to 1938 explores international minority protections.
Download or read book Conflicts Across the Atlantic written by Andrzej Kapiszewski and published by Archeobooks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how Polish-Jewish tensions in Poland from the late 19th century to 1939 affected Polish-Jewish relations in the USA in this period. Argues that these relations deteriorated in the pre-World War I years and even more during the war and the postwar peace settlements due to growing Polish nationalism and Jewish opposition to the reconstitution of a Polish state. Discusses Polish anti-Jewish excesses during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-20 and their impact on Polish-Jewish relations in the USA. Dwells on reports of these excesses sent by the U.S. ambassador in Poland Hugh Gibson, who maintained that news on the excesses were exaggerated and they could not be called pogroms. Some Jewish leaders were forced to agree with Gibson. Dwells also on the Jewish-Polish conflict in Milwaukee in 1919, brought about by different assessments of the Polish excesses by the city's two ethnic communities. In the 1920s-30s many American Poles, like their American non-Polish neighbors, opposed Jewish immigration into the USA. Pp. 227-234 contain a brief historiographic review relating to how antisemitic interwar Poland was, according to various historians, and whether U.S. Jews were justified in viewing it as an antisemitic country.
Download or read book The Jews in Poland and Russia written by Antony Polonsky and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive socio-political, economic, and religious history - an important story whose relevance extends beyond the Jewish world or the bounds of east-central Europe.
Download or read book A Fifty year Index to Polish American Studies 1944 1993 written by Casimir J. Grotnik and published by East European Monograph. This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles, reviews, and other scholarly material from the archives of the Polish American Historical Association, the world's leading organization dedicated to the study of Polish immigration in the Americas.
Download or read book In the Midst of Civilized Europe written by Jeffrey Veidlinger and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE “The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holocaust. No history of that Jewish catastrophe comes close to the virtuosity of research, clarity of prose, and power of analysis of this extraordinary book. As the horror of events yields to empathetic understanding, the reader is grateful to Veidlinger for reminding us what history can do.” —Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms—ethnic riots—dominated headlines and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true. Drawing upon long-neglected archival materials, including thousands of newly discovered witness testimonies, trial records, and official orders, acclaimed historian Jeffrey Veidlinger shows for the first time how this wave of genocidal violence created the conditions for the Holocaust. Through stories of survivors, perpetrators, aid workers, and governmental officials, he explains how so many different groups of people came to the same conclusion: that killing Jews was an acceptable response to their various problems. In riveting prose, In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Acta Poloniae Historica written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Polish American Studies written by Konstantin Symmons-Symonolewicz and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Slavic Baltic and Eurasian Studies 1994 written by Nypl and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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