Introduction: Poland and Anti-Semitism Adam Michnik and Agnieszka Marczyk I. Prologue: 1900-1936 Jews - the 1920s Czeslaw Milosz II. 1936-1939: The Mustard Gas of Racism The Przytyk Market Stands Ksawery Pruszynski Annual Shame Maria Dabrowska III. 1939-1945: On Both Sides of The Wall Jews and Polish Commerce Kazimierz Wyka We, Polish Jews Julian Tuwim The Orchestration of Rage Michal M. Borwicz IV. 1945-1947: The Power of Ignorance The Power of Ignorance Mieczyslaw Jastrun The Problem of Polish Anti-Semitism Jerzy Andrzejewski With Kielce in the Background Stanislaw Ossowski Our Part (A Pessimist's Voice) Witold Kula V. 1956-1957: The Anti-Semitism of Kind and Gentle People Anti-Semites: Five Familiar Theses and a Warning Leszek Kolakowski From National Democrats to Stalinists Konstanty A. Jelenski Anti-Semitism Jerzy Turowicz The Anti-Semitism of Kind and Gentle People Tadeusz Mazowiecki VI. 1967-1969: Expulsion from Poland March 1968 and the So-Called Jewish Question in Poland after World War II Krystyna Kersten VII. 1970-1989: The Poor Poles Look At The Ghetto Jews as a Polish Problem Aleksander Smolar The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto Jan Blonski VIII. After 1989: Toward Description and Diagnosis Polish-Jewish Relations 30 Years after the Publication of the "Nostra Aetate" Conciliar Declaration Rev. Archbishop Henryk Muszynski The Disgrace of Indifference Hanna Swida-Ziemba The Holocaust Maria Janion IX. 2001-2009: Against the Conformity of Silence The Burning Barn and I Waldemar Kuczynski Helplessness Jerzy Jedlicki

"It is an important, thought-provoking, and very timely publication, masterfully translated by Agnieszka Marczyk. Against Anti-Semitism is a powerful contribution to the ongoing debate about the dangers of antisemitism, and the under-lying reasons for its persistence."--Jan Grabowski, Antisemitism Studies "A collectively significant and seminal work of simply outstanding scholarship, 'Against Anti-Semitism: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Polish Writings' is a critically important and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library collections."--The Midwest Book Review "To understand anti-Semitism is to see its world history and to perceive it around us. To oppose it is to learn from others who have done so before us, in perhaps more challenging times and places than our own. This collection of important essays by opponents of anti-Semitism in Poland was, in its Polish edition, a generous gesture by Mr. Michnik towards his nation. In its English translation, it is a distant mirror that can help us see ourselves." --Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History, Yale University, and author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning "This volume brings together the most enlightened voices of Polish intellectuals - poets, writers, priests, professors - speaking up in dark times against intolerance. Judiciously chosen and introduced by Agnieszka Marczyk and Adam Michnik (himself one of our most distinguished public intellectuals) it is indispensable reading for our time, when populism, xenophobia, and narrow-minded nationalism are again in ascendance." --Jan Gross, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, and Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz "Against Anti-Semitism offers powerful testimony to the courage of those Polish writers and intellectuals who over the decades have dared to confront one of the most pernicious ideologies of our time, while also providing evidence of its endurance from one generation to the next. Given the recent rise of radical nationalism in Poland (and elsewhere in the world), this book will be a beacon for those who see the threat and want to confront it." --Jan Grabowski, University of Ottawa "This comprehensive account of anti-Semitism and its opponents in Poland is essential reading for all those in the history of Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." --Anthony Polonsky, Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University

Selling point: The roster of authors is a Who's-Who of the most prominent polish writers and thinkers of the 20th century Selling point: Features a robust collection of essays, many of which have been translated into English here for the first time Selling point: Refutes the perception of anti-Semitism as being innate to the Polish identity, highlighting the ways anti-Semitism has been resisted from the beginnings of World War I to the present

Adam Michnik is a historian and editor-in-chief of Poland's largest daily, Gazeta Wyborcza. He was a leader of the student antigovernment protests in 1968, a Solidarity activist in the 1980s, and a negotiator at the Round Table Talks in 1989. His books include Letters from Prison and In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe. Agnieszka Marczyk is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where her work focuses on democratic citizenship and historical thinking skills. She is co-editor of Does Democracy Matter? The United States and Global Democracy Support.

Selling point: The roster of authors is a Who's-Who of the most prominent polish writers and thinkers of the 20th century Selling point: Features a robust collection of essays, many of which have been translated into English here for the first time Selling point: Refutes the perception of anti-Semitism as being innate to the Polish identity, highlighting the ways anti-Semitism has been resisted from the beginnings of World War I to the present