<i>Neighbors</i>, the Jedwabne Massacre of Jews and the Controversy that Changed Poland
Abstrak
There are not many other cases when one single book about history, written by an academic, not only provoked a massive and stormy nationwide debate involving mass media, political leaders and bishops, but also unleashed processes that strongly influenced the self-perceptions of a nation, opening the way for ground-breaking new historical research and, at the same time, for political responses which had a tangible impact on the direction in which the whole country moved. It was all achieved by a not very long historical essay (around 100 pages in Polish, 170 pages in the subsequent English-language edition, excluding photographs, maps, indexes) by Jan Tomasz Gross.1 Its subject was the massacre of almost all Jews (the number is still debatable: between several hundred to 1,600 – the latter number claimed by Gross) living in the small town of Jedwabne in German-occupied Poland, committed by their Polish neighbours in July 1941. After its Polish debut, the book was translated into thirteen languages.
Penulis (1)
Paweł Machcewicz
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2023
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- CrossRef
- DOI
- 10.1017/s0960777323000504
- Akses
- Open Access ✓