Fear · Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Gross, Jan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Epigraph INTRODUCTION 1 - POLAND ABANDONED

The Underground State Discovery of the Katyń Mass Graves The “Lublin Poles,” or the Soviet Politics of the Faits Accomplis The Symbolism of “Yalta” The Decommissioning of the London-Affiliated Underground Monopolization of Power by the Communist Party The Landscape After the Battle

2 - THE UNWELCOMING OF JEWISH SURVIVORS

Anti-Jewish Violence The Takeover of Jewish Property by Polish Neighbors The Takeover of Jewish Property by the Polish State Administration Prosecution of Crimes Committed Against Jews Anti-Jewish Bias in Local Administration Employment Discrimination Anti-Semitism in Schools A Pogrom That Wasn’t

3 - THE KIELCE POGROM: EVENTS

The Taste of Cherries The Opening Phase Assault on the Building at Planty 7 The Breakdown of Law Enforcement A Change of Venue Passionless Killings Conversations Between Strangers On the Railroad

4 - THE KIELCE POGROM: REACTIONS

How the Working Class Reacted to the Kielce Pogrom and What the Communist Party Made of It The Party Draws Conclusions The Response of the Polish Intellectual Elite How the Catholic Clergy Reacted to the Pogrom Confidential Report from the Bishop of Kielce The Response of Bishop Kubina Not Much Official Ado About the Kielce Pogrom The Taste of Matzo

5 - BLINDED BY SOCIAL DISTANCE

The Rhetoric of Estrangement A Warning The Forgotten Interface What Was Recorded About the Murder of Polish Jews in Podlasie The Limits of Understanding

6 - ŻYDOKOMUNA

The Interwar Context Wartime and Postwar Official Soviet Attitudes Toward the Jews The Jewish Antifascist Committee and “The Black Book of Russian Jewry” Jews in the PPR Frakcja PPR in the CKZP Jews and the Postwar Regime The Co-optation of Radical Nationalists Jews in the Apparatus of Repression A Pragmatic Approach to the “Jewish Question” in Eastern Europe Recapitulation

CONCLUSIONS NOTES Acknowledgements About the Author BIBLIOGRAPHY Copyright Page