Gross Neighbors

The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4325-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Jan T. Gross is Professor of Politics and European Studies at New York University. He is the author of, among other books, Revolution from Abroad: Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (Princeton) and a coeditor of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath (Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gross, Jan T.

Gross, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 3

Outline of the Story 14

Sources 23

Before the War 33

Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 41

The Outbreak of the Russo-German War and the Pogrom in Radzilow 54

Preparations 72

Who Murdered the Jews of Jedwabne? 79

The Murder 90

Plunder 105

Intimate Biographies 111

Anachronism 122

What Do People Remember? 126

Collective Responsibility 132

New Approach to Sources 138

Is It Possible to Be Simultaneously a Victim and a Victimizer?143

Collaboration 152

Social Support for Stalinism 164

For a New Historiography 168

Postscript 171

Notes 205

Index 249

Über Autor(innen)

Jan T. Gross is Professor of Politics and European Studies at New York University. He is the author of, among other books, Revolution from Abroad: Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (Princeton) and a coeditor of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath (Princeton).