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Neighbors
副标题: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
ISBN: 9780691086675
出版社: Princeton University Press
出版年: 2001-3
页数: 261
定价: USD 28.95
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
"Neighbors is a truly pathbreaking book, the work of a master historian. Jan Gross has a shattering tale to tell, and he tells it with consummate skill and control. The impact of his account of the massacre of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors is all the greater for the calm, understated narration and Gross's careful reconstruction of the terrifying circumstances in which the killing was undertaken. But this little book is much, much more than just another horror story from the Holocaust. In his imaginative reflections upon the tragedy of Jedwabne, Gross has subtly recast the history of wartime Poland and proposed an original interpretation of the origins of the postwar Communist regime. This book has already had dramatic repercussions in Poland, where it has single-handedly prised open a closed and painful chapter in that nation's recent past. But Neighbors is not only about Poland. It is a moving and provocative rumination upon the most important ethical issue of our age. No one who has studied or lived through the twentieth century can afford to ignore it."--Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute
"This tiny book reveals a shocking story buried for sixty years, and it has set of a round of soul searching in Poland. But the questions it raises are of universal significance: How do 'ordinary men' turn suddenly into 'willing executioners?' What, if anything, can be learned from history about 'national character?' Where do we draw the line between legitimately assigning present responsibility for wrongs perpetrated by previous generations and unfairly visiting the sins of the fathers on the children? 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
"This is unquestionably one of the most important books I have read in the last decade both on the general question of the mass murder of the Jews during World War II and on the more specific problem of the reaction of Polish society to that genocide. All of the issues it raises are handled with consummate mastery. I finished this short book both appalled at the events it describes and filled with admiration for the wise and all-encompassing skill with which the painful, difficult, and complex subject has been handled."--Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
作者简介
Jan T. Gross is a professor of politics and European studies at New York University. He has written numerous academic and historical studies, including Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. He is coeditor of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.
目录
Acknowledgments ix 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
