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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsNeighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Polandby Jan T. Gross
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this shocking and compelling study, historian Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts as well as physical evidence into a comprehensive reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but hidden to history. Revealing wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism, Gross's investigation sheds light on how Jedwabne's Jews came to be murdered — not by faceless Nazis, but by people who knew them well. Review:"The always heated question of the role of Poles in the Holocaust comes to a head here. The book is bound to generate controversy." Publishers Weekly Review:"The author has no facile answers to these problems, but his story asks us to think about them in new ways." David Engel, author of The Holocaust: The Third Reich and the Jews Synopsis:One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half, 1,600 men, women, and children, all but seven of the town's Jews. "Neighbors" tells their story.
About the AuthorJan T. Gross was a 2001 National Book Award nominee for his widely acclaimed Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. He teaches history at Princeton University, where he is a Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Outline of the Story Sources Before the War Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 The Outbreak of the Russo-German War and the Pogrom in Radzilow Preparations Who Murdered the Jews of Jedwabne? The Murder Plunder Intimate Biographies Anachronism What Do People Remember? Collective Responsibility New Approach to Sources Is It Possible to Be Simultaneously a Victim and a Victimizer? Collaboration Social Support for Stalinism For a New Historiography Postscript Afterword Notes Index
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