Stop Racist Violence in Poland!

In the latest issue of the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS there is a call to stop racist violence in Poland:

Stop Racist Violence in Poland!
Andrew Solomon and the Polish PEN Club   
NYRB, January 14, 2016 Issue 63/1

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

Das gebunkerte Polen schlägt um sich

Aus gegebenem Anlaß staatlicher rechtsextremer Umtriebe in Polen, Hinweis auf einen Artikel aus dem Vormonat und ein wichtiges Buch:

Poland may sue over claim Poles killed more Jews than Germans during war
Princeton University professor Jan T Gross faces possible lawsuit by the Polish prosecutors over his remarks
The Guardian, 16 Oct. 2015


Deutsche Übersetzung des epochalen Werks des Historikers
Jan T. Gross: Nachbarn. Der Mord an den Juden von Jedwabne. 
C. H. Beck, München 2001
Mit einem Vorwort von Adam Micvhnik, einem speziellen Hinweis zur deutschen Ausgabe (damit es keine Unklarheiten gibt) und einem speziellen Nachwort "an meine deutschen Leser", damit alles klar ist.
 
Trotz aller Vorsichtsmaßnahmen ein höchst lesenswertes Buch, das in unserer Bibliothek aufliegt.

 

 

Poland's shift into right extremism

Polish minister tries to ban Nobel winner's ‘pornographic’ play
Piotr Glinski’s move seen by civil liberties groups as a sign country is poised for a return to draconian state censorship
Alex Duval Smith, Warsaw, for The Guardian, 23 Nov. 2015

Polish defence minister condemned over Jewish conspiracy theory
Newly appointed Antoni Macierewicz criticised for saying hoax document about plan for world domination could be real
Rajeev Syal, The Guardian, 10 Nov. 2015

Coming up:
Next moves concerning tougher censorship, people's hunt and demonstrations against former enemy Germany and the EU

Concerning Polish anti-Semitism and Jedwabne

Recommended reading:

Julian Barnes in his excellent review:

Even Worse Than We Thought

The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont, translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles

The New York Review of Books, issue 2015/18 (free access!)