The Crime and the Silence

 Recommended reading / Buchempfehlung:

The Crime and the Silence
Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
Anna Bikont; Translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

British edition published by William Heinemann, London 2015 (the second cover on the right)

Das Buch liegt in unserer Bibliothek auf! / This book is available in our library!

Reviews:

When Neighbors Killed Neighbors
By Konstanty Gebert, moment, Sept-Oct. 2015

‘The Crime and the Silence,’ by Anna Bikont
By LOUIS BEGLEYNOV, The New York Times, Sunday Book Review,.Nov. 4, 2015

Even Worse Than We Thought
Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2015
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne. by Anna Bikont, translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 544 pp., $30.00

Polish author reopens minefield of who killed Jedwabne’s Jews
By JP O'Malley, TheTimes of Israel, Oct. 15, 2015

A Polish apologetic propaganda site, "The Doomed Soldiers. Polish Underground Soldiers 1944-1963 - The Untold Story" denounces the books of Anna Bikont as well as of Jan T. Gross in a review by by Jan Peczkis.


Two videos from Youtube:

Anna Bikont, "The Crime and the Silence" 
Reading and Talk at the Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C

Anna Bikont The Crime and the Silence 10 16 2015