Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath

Table of contents

• Contested Memories *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• Notes xv
• Acknowledgments xvii
• Abbreviations xix
• Contested Memories *
• Introduction - Changing Perceptions in the Historiography of Polish-Jewish Relations During the Second World War 1
• Notes 13
• Part I - The Prewar Legacy *
• Chapter 1 - Zionism in Poland and the Territorialist Projects of the Polish Authorities, 1936–1939 19
• Notes *
• Chapter 2 - The Transmutation of a Symbol and Its Legacy in the Holocaust 32
• Notes *
• Part II - The Widening Gap, 1939–1941 *
• Chapter 3 - Psychological Distance Between Poles and Jews in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw 47
• Notes 53
• Chapter 4 - Specific Strategies of Survival 54
• Notes *
• Chapter 5 - On the Subject of Jewish “collaboration” in Soviet-Occupied Eastern Poland, 1939–1941 61
• Notes *
• Chapter 6 - The Case of Jedwabne in the Summer of 1941 69
• Notes *
• Part III - Institutional Polish Responses to the Final Solution *
• Chapter 7 - What Conditioned Its Actions and Inactions? 85
• Notes *
• Chapter 8 - The Attitude of the Polish Underground to the Jewish Question During the Second World War 97
• Notes 105
• Chapter 9 - Polish Catholics and the Jews During the Holocaust 107
• Notes *
• Part IV - Poles Through Jewish Eyes 121
• Chapter 10 - Poland and the Polish Nation as Reflected in the Jewish Underground Press 123
• Notes *
• Chapter 11 - Jewish and Polish Perceptions of the Shoah as Reflected in Wartime Diaries and Memoirs 134
• Notes *
• Chapter 12 - Polish-Jewish Relations in the Writings of Emmanuel Ringelblum 142
• Notes *
• Chapter 13 - Non-Jews in the Wartime Writings of Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapiro 158
• Notes *
• Part V - The Destruction of Polish Jewry and Polish Popular Opinion 171
• Chapter 14 - Polish-Jewish Relations in Occupied Warsaw, 1940–1945 173
• Notes *
• Chapter 15 - A Gendered Comparison 193
• Notes *
• Chapter 16 - Some Issues in Jewish-Polish Relations During the Second World War 212
• Notes *
• Part VI - Aftermath *
• Chapter 17 - A Narrative Reconstruction 221
• Notes *
• Chapter 18 - The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Attitudes in Postwar Poland 239
• Notes *
• Chapter 19 - Jewish Responses to Antisemitism in Poland, 1944–1947 247
• Notes 257
• Chapter 20 - Teaching About the Holocaust in Poland 262
• Notes *
• Chapter 21 - Collective Memory and Contemporary Polish-Jewish Relations 271
• Notes *
• Chapter 22 - A Personal Account 291
• Notes *
• Contributors 305
• Index 311

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