Table of Contents

Note on Place Names

Note on Transliteration

PART I: THE 1968 CRISIS AFTER FORTY YEARS

Introduction
leszek W. Gluchowski and Antony Polonsky

The Hate Campaign of March 1968: How Did It Become Anti-Jewish?
Dariusz Stola

1968: Jews, Antisemitism, Emigration
Jerzy Eisler

The March Events: Targeting the Jews
Wlodzymiersz Rozenbaum

A Critical Analysis of the Activities of the Polish Military Intelligence Service, 1945–1961
leszek W. Gluchowski

‘Israel’ in the Events of March 1968
Bozena Szaynok

A Community under Pressure: Jews in Poland, 1957–1967
Audrey Kichelewski

Facing Antisemitism in Poland during the Second World War and in March 1968
Malgorzata Melchior

Jewish Children and Youth in Downtown Warsaw Schools of the 1960s
Joanna Wiszniewicz

The Exile of Sara Nomberg-Przytyk: Polish Jewish Communist
Holli Levitsky

The Fate of a Yiddish Poet in Communist Eastern Europe: Naftali Herts Kon in Poland, 1959–1965
Karen Auerbach

Domestic Shame: A Conversation with Professor Jerzy Jedlicki
Anna Jarmusiewicz

An Interview with Mirosław Sawicki (August 2006)
Joanna B. Michlic

Testimony
Henryk Dasko

The Controversy Aroused by the Role in 1968 of General Wojciech Jaruzelski: The Purges in the Polish Army 1967–1968
Tadeusz Pióro

A Painful and Complex Subject
Wojciech Jaruzelski

Reply to General Jaruzelski
Tadeusz Pióro

The Controversy Aroused by the 1968 Events in 2006: A Meeting with Jacek Kuron as Reported by Secret Collaborator ‘Return’ (Leslaw Maleszka): A Contribution to the Discussions about the Events of March 1968
Piotr Gontarczyk

The Institute for National Remembrance Slanders Jacek Kuron
Wojciech Czuchnowski and Seweryn Blumsztajn

I Am, Therefore I Write: Uses and Abuses
Maciej Rybinski

Selective Indignation
Rafal Ziemkiewicz

Attention, Moczar Lives! An Interview with Karol Modzelewski
Adam Leszczyński

Between the Institute for National Remembrance and Gazeta Wyborcza: The Cracked Code
Tadeusz Witkowski

‘Gniazdo’—The Moral Bankruptcy of the Security Service (SB)
Teresa Bogucka

PART II: NEW VIEWS

The Yiddishist Ideology of Noah Prylucki
Kalman Weiser

Metropolitan Sheptytsky: A Reassessment
Julian J. Bussgang

The Case of Moses Schorr: Rabbi, Scholar, and Social Activist
Michael Beizer and Israel Bartal

You Can’t Do It Just Like That... or, Jerzy Ficowski’s Path to Reading the Ashes
Krzysztof Czyżewski

Contemporary Debates on the Holocaust in Poland: The Reception of Art Spiegelman’s ‘Graphic Novel’ Maus
Tomasz Łysak

Apollo, Mercury, and Soviet Jews
Piotr Wróbel

Obituaries

Father Stanislaw Musial
Józef Andrzej Gierowski
Jerzy Ficowski

Notes on the Contributors
Glossary
Index

About the Author

Leszek W. Gluchowski is an independent scholar and writer based in Hamilton, Ontario. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Cambridge and has published numerous articles and documents, primarily with the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He has recently completed a novel, entitled ‘Father, Son, Holy . . . Spy’, based on the defection to the CIA in 1953 of Lt. Col. Józef Sawiatlo of the Polish Ministry of Public Security. Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years.